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Lancashire has had a major role to play in English football from
its earliest days to the present. The county's leading clubs were
largely responsible for the introduction of professionalism in the
1880s, after Preston North End admitted paying their players, and
the world's first Football League was divided between teams from
the North West and the Midlands. Preston's 'Invincibles' triumphed
in that first competition before adding the FA Cup that two
different Blackburn clubs had already won - and soon the great
clubs of Merseyside and Manchester were winning their first
trophies. As the turf wars developed, Blackpool, Bolton Wanderers,
Burnley, Bury and Oldham all made their mark in the top division;
clubs such as Rochdale and Wigan fought the good fight in rugby
hotbeds; and more recently Fleetwood and Morecambe have carried the
name of their towns further afield. This is the story of these
great rivals, their triumphs, scandals and tragedies, and the great
players who have kept the red rose to the fore at home and abroad.
Few cities in the world have as many professional football clubs as
London and none have the history explored in this book by
journalist and broadcaster Steve Tongue. It was in the English
capital that the Football Association - the first of its kind
anywhere - was founded in 1863 and that the FA Cup, the world's
most famous domestic cup competition, was born. After the North and
Midlands dominated the first forty-odd years of league football,
three clubs in particular - Arsenal, Spurs and Chelsea - began to
challenge them and eventually succeeded, joining West Ham United as
trophy winners not only at home but in Europe. Between those four
clubs, and more than a dozen other professional clubs past and
present, grew the turf wars that are the bedrock of the great
rivalries and derbies across England's most vibrant football city.
Turf Wars tells the story of football in the capital.
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