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The Origins of Sheffield Wednesday (Paperback)
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The Origins of Sheffield Wednesday (Paperback)
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You Save R121 (24%)
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The City of Sheffield is rightly lauded as being the birthplace of
association football, but in the early nineteenth century it was
also the centre of cricket activities in the North of England,
arguably contributing more to the advance of game, other than the
Marylebone Cricket Club, than any other area. In 1820, six local
Sheffield businessmen formed Wednesday Cricket Club and within a
few years they rose to become the prominent team in the town. Their
influence on the game of cricket was immeasurable and over the
years they would boast many notable players, including Sheffield
legend Tom Marsden. For the first time, those early deeds of the
cricket club are covered in depth - including a look at the
founding fathers - while the emergence of a football section, in
1867, opened a new chapter in the history of Wednesday, one which
continues to be written today as Sheffield Wednesday FC approach
their 150th birthday with the club's bicentenary just five years
away. The football side has without doubt taken the club's unique
name all over the world and The Origins of Sheffield Wednesday
focuses, in great detail, on the players and officials plus the on
and off the field events that helped to shape the modern-day
multi-million pound football club.
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