The oldest football club in the world...

[Far Cough UKunt]

Notts County now languishing in League two for shame. 

Juventus and Botafogo both copied their black and white shirts.

That's yer history lesson for today.

[F 129 Row66]

Sheffield is famous the world over in football. Sheffield The oldest club in the world. Sheffield Wednesday A great club and miultiple times league winners, and Sheffield United are known universally as the most terrible sports and whining losers.

[southbankbornnbred]

If there was only one oldest club, who did they play against?

I'm not sure. But if Potter's West Ham had been the only club in existence, we'd still only have scraped a draw after dominating possession on the edge of our 18 yard box.

[eusebiovic]

If there was only one oldest club, who did they play against?

Most sport clubs were already in existence - cricket, gymnastics or rugby. When they saw football taking off like a wildfire a lot eventually became fully fledged official football clubs. To jump on the bandwagon and all that.

[zico]

"Juventus have played in black and white striped shirts, with white shorts, sometimes black shorts since 1901–02 season. Originally, they played in pink shirts with a black tie. The father of one of the players made the earliest shirts, but continual washing faded the colour so much that in December 1901 the club sought to replace them. Juventus asked one of their team members, Englishman John Savage, if he had any contacts in England who could supply new shirts in a colour that would better withstand the elements. He had a friend who lived in Nottingham, who being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin. Juventus have worn the shirts ever since, considering the colours to be aggressive and powerful."

[John Drake]

If there was only one oldest club, who did they play against?

[eusebiovic]

Sheffield FC (red and blacks)  v Hallam FC (blues) is the oldest derby as obviously they are also oldest clubs in the world 1857 & 1860 

Sheffield Wednesday (1867) and Sheffield United (1889) came much later because the original clubs wished to remain amateurs playing to the original rules they drew up and the industrialists needed a plaything for themselves and t'workers drawn up from the official unified F.A rules which came later. 

Sheffield Rules actually had more in common with the football we know today...touchlines, corners, free kicks, penalties, crossbars, referees, 11 a side, 90 mins and they also invented the first known tactics and formations.

The F.A rules (which were London based) were a bit more like a relative of rugby without hands and no passing forwards but they did have the offside rule - which was derived from this. What then formally became the F.A rules were a hybrid of the two but predominantly from the old Sheffield rules book.

Fascinating init?

 

[Mad Ferret]

Sheffield FC