125 years ago.......football as we know it started

[Noggin]

....and it was the Villa to blame

It was 125 years ago on Saturday, on 2 March 1888, that William McGregor, then the president of Aston Villa, wrote a letter to a small group of other football clubs, floating the idea that they should organise a league

more here

Mind you, if we believe the popular press, football started in 1992

[YeltzDoc]

We'd been going for 15 years by then.

Les Randle had already had one testimonial.

[Noggin]

My point being that it was the point at which league competions started. Previously there was the FA Challenge Cup, County Senior Cups and friendly matches by mutual arrangement between clubs.

When he gets online Zeezze will probably tell us more. He was at the original meeting I believe

[Laurel Lane Lamper]

Mind you, if we believe the popular press, football started in 1992

[beastyyeltz]

We'd been going for 15 years by then.

Does that mean it'll be our 150th in 10 years?