Before posting the next WIAB serie, it would be a malpractice blogging not to sandwich this interesting soccer event the 1970 FIFA World Cup soccer played in Mexico when BRAZIL won the Jules Rimet trophy for the third time which allowed the country to keep it permanently. However, this trophy had a life on its own, it was stolen and melted for resale.From that point on, only a replica was given to the winning team and the original exposed to the public thru museum apparatus. You can click on a link thru this reading delineating that story. First, click on this link:
One hundred and thirty one years ago, on November 5, 1875, a meeting was held at the St Leger Hotel on King William Street to discuss forming a football club. John Lewis and Arthur Constantine, local business men and both ex-public school boys called the meeting for local townsmen with money, power and influence. As a result of this meeting of 17 well-educated middle class men, BLACKBURN ROVERS was born.
Until today, football was primarily a mainly upper class sport in England but Africa and of course the mighty BRAZIL. Football clubs, in England that is..had first started in the 1820's, often in independent and public schools, each with their very set of rules. Problems arose as each school had different ideas on the size of the pitch, how much handling of the ball was allowed, and whether or not hacking was permitted. When students moved onto University they needed a set of rules for the game so a standard code was drawn up. The Simplest Game, which had 10 rules, was established in 1862 and the following years representatives of English clubs formed the Football Association well known today as FA CUP which played concomittantly with the BARCLAYs ENGLISH PREMIER LEAGUE.
Although the game of football( SOCCER), played under Association rules was until in its early days, ROVERS played their first match vs the CHURCH club in December 1875.(below)
ROVER's first ground was Oozehead. From there they moved to Pleasington Cricket then onto Alexandra Meadows, all in the space of three years. In 1881 they moved to a new rented ground in Leamington Road. Their final move to the permanent site of EWOOD PARK (as we know it today), came in 1890 when the rent for the Leamington Road ground was increased.
An all purpose sports ground that staged chiefly athletics and dog racing, EWOOD PARK had a number of advantages. The train line ran right outside, along Bolton Road, linking the ground to the Town centre and railway station. It had also been used to stage an international match between England and Scotland in 1887.
In a blink of an eye BLACKBURN ROVERS became "La coqueluche" of England. In the 1881-1882 season they reached the FA Cup final, eventually winning the trophy in 1884. From then on they won the FA Cup in 1885, 1886, 1890 and 1891. The team continued to flourish and became League Champions in the 1911-12 and 1913-14 seasons. That period up until the first World War was a golden age for Rovers, an age that has never quite been repeated. As we speak Blackburn Rovers' position at the Barclays EPL standing board is not enviable since Manchester United, Chelsea and Liverpool have been the TALE of the TAPE for quite sometimes but that has not tarnished Blackburn Rovers' heydays peppered by the second FIFA president 's town Sir Daniel Burley Woolfall.
I am a Mental Health Professional practicing in Washington, D.C.
I would like to be a PRN Blogger at this time.
I am the new kid on the block.
I played soccer and volleyball when I was a youngster.
Recently, I have been glued to my TV on weekend watching or replaying the BEAUTIFUL GAME.I also enjoyed watching my 13 years old son playing basketball on weekends.
I am also a big fan of Hockey, North American Football specially playoff time, and Boxing.
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