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David S Shaw
1 Posted 29/08/2012 at 16:01:10
What's the story about the unofficial Cup win at Fallowfields in, I think, 1887?
Fergus McCarthy
2 Posted 29/08/2012 at 16:48:07
Do you know the reason that many Public Schools play rugby instead of football was because the FA did not suspend football at the beginning of the War in 1914, whereas rugby football did with the players going off to the trenches.

The schools decided only play the "handling code" of football after that. The sports were very similar with a lot of dribbling a roundish heavy rugby ball, and football was a lot more physical, with shoulder charges and more.

Before then the schools played Association and Rugby Football, and often would decide which to play on the day.
Rob Jones
3 Posted 29/08/2012 at 19:32:59
David - nothing unofficial about it. We were beaten by Wolves (1:0) in the actual FA Cup final held at athletic ground/velodrome in Fallowfield in 1893.
Brian Denton
4 Posted 29/08/2012 at 20:57:06
Surely we played in the FA Cup before 1886? Didn't we play Rangers sometime before this - sticks in my mind because as a kid it always amazed me that Scottish teams played in the early days of the FA Cup, as did the public schools and some army regiments.
Tony Onslow
5 Posted 29/08/2012 at 21:22:14
Yes we did play Rangers, Brian, but Everton scrached to enable them play their ineligible players and the game went ahead as a friendly. The Scots could play their strongest team because they were all classed as amateurs. Everton lost 1-0.
Derek Thomas
6 Posted 30/08/2012 at 08:30:41
0-1 Vs Wolves; 0-1 Vs Rangers. KITAP1, I blame Moyes, Hibbo and Osman. Why didn't he play The Yak, he was still a youngster then, but if you're good enough you're old enough.

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