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The Early Years of the FA Cup - How the British Army Helped Establish the World's First Football Tournament (Hardcover)
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The Early Years of the FA Cup - How the British Army Helped Establish the World's First Football Tournament (Hardcover)
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The 150th anniversary of the first FA Cup competition, the earliest
knockout tournament in the history of football, will be celebrated
during the 2021-2022 season. The first set of matches was played on
11 November 1871, with the Engineers reaching the final played at
Kennington Oval on 16 March 1872. During the first decade of the
competition three teams associated with the military, Royal
Engineers, 1st Surrey Rifles and 105th Regiment, were involved in
74 matches. They won more than half of them and scored 154 goals.
The Army also produced one of the most respected administrators in
the history of football, in the form of Major Francis Marindin, who
was involved in the founding of the FA Cup, played in two finals,
and refereed a further nine. Military men and units provided a
number of firsts' in the early years of football. The Royal
Engineers played in the first ever FA Cup final; Lieutenant James
Prinsep of the Essex Regiment was the youngest footballer to appear
in an FA Cup final until 2004, although he remains the youngest to
complete a full match; Lieutenant William Maynard of the 1st Surrey
Rifles played for England in the first ever official international
match against Scotland; Captain William Kenyon-Slaney of the
Grenadier Guards scored the first ever goal in an official
international match, while playing for England; and Lieutenant
Henry Renny-Tailyour of the Royal Engineers scored the first ever
goal for Scotland in the same match. At a time when there has been
talk of a financially-motivated breakaway European Super League,
James gives the reader the opportunity to look back at a time when
football was played for the game itself. Using his vast knowledge
concerning Victorian football and military history, _The Early
Years of the FA Cup_ explores the fascinating history of the Army's
involvement in the early years of the world's most popular sport.
With detailed descriptions of the finals and other matches
involving the military teams during football's heyday, this book,
for the first time, then follows the men as they went on campaigns
to build roads and bridges in hostile territory, provide maps for
commanders in famous conflicts such as The Zulu War, Afghanistan,
the Sudan, and the Boer Wars, and saw active service on the Western
Front during the First World War. In some cases they never
returned. Often great footballers are referred to as heroes' -in
the case of the men who played for the Army teams in the early FA
Cup competitions, such an epithet is genuinely true.
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