Football Crimes, Fines & Misdemeanours 1895-96
Leicestershire Football Association ruled football in the county with a rod of iron. Crimes and misdemeanours by players, officials and clubs were severely dealt with. A small selection of the…
Leicester Fosse 1904-05
This newspaper photograph shows the Leicester Fosse team in 1904-05, standing in front of the Manor House Hotel on Woodhouse Road in Quorn. The hotel was run by keen Quorn…
Back of the Net
The idea of using goal nets came about in the 1890s from John Brodie, an engineer from Liverpool, England. It is said that had the idea after watching a Football…
Belgrave Cricket & Cycle Ground
In 1879, the Belgrave Road Cricket and Bicycle Ground Company was established with £10,000 in share capital. By November of the same year, they secured an 8-acre plot under a…
Leicestershire Professional Footballers 1894-95
The Football Association compiled a list professional footballers registered at the start of the 1894-95 season. Leicestershire had 84 professional footballers – playing for eight clubs – Coalville Albion (6),…
Whitwick Football League Fixture
The northwest Leicestershire colliery town of Whitwick staged a Football League Division 2 fixture on Saturday 31 March 1900 – between Loughborough Town and Burslem Port Vale. Three weeks earlier…
Call To Arms …
The following “Call to Arms” poem, written by Edward Oppenheim, encouraging footballers to take the King’s shilling, appeared in many newspapers during November 1914. TO LEAGUE FOOTBALLERS LEICESTER NOVELISTS MESSAGE…
North v South – British Ladies Football Club
An illustration of the British Ladies’ Football Club’s first public match which took place at Crouch End, London on 25 March 1895, between teams representing the ‘North’ and the ‘South’,…
Corinthian’s Christmas Spirit
A star studded array of internationals turned out for the famous London-based Corinthians FC against Leicester Fosse at Walnut Street on Boxing Day afternoon 1899. Founded some 17 years earlier…
An Extraordinary Game – Grimsby v Fosse, Football League Division 2, January 1917
Fosse Victory …. Nine Players …. Lost Kit … Magenta Shirts …. No goals scored by Fosse players ….. Missed Connection …. and more! Saturday’s game at Grimsby, when Fosse…