The 1861 nonsense

[Penge Eagle]

I understand the accepted account (myth?) is it was a works team for relocating the Crystal Palace.

Not sure the dates fit.

However the BBC appears to have bought in with 1861 and refers to the first major prize in our proud "164 year" history

Census records shows the players were not part of a works team and had well-paid jobs, living in large houses with servants. Many were well known in aristocratic circles and were very successful professionally. There are so many great stories about the players...

William Cloete was a South African, who had extensive mining properties in Mexico, was a race horse breeder whose horse came second in the 1885 Derby. He was a passenger on the Lusitania and sadly died when it sank in 1915. There's a town in Mexico named 'Cloete' in his honour.

 

[Penge Eagle]

in the formalised manner that we understand 'football' yes. However, village football, which often resembled a brawl across five miles of farmland, that has been going on for at least a thousand years.

Association football. 🙂

 

[Spindle]

Agree and to clarify it's 30 years, plus no documents about a holding company exist. Football was such a new sport back then, played by amateurs for fun and companies owning clubs wasn't a thing.

Is this the style of your book? Not impressed by the dialect, no wonder it hasn't sold.

 

[Penge Eagle]

Is this the style of your book? Not impressed by the dialect, no wonder it hasn't sold.

Why do you have to resort to a personal attack instead of discussing the history?