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DID WALSALL TOWN EVER PLAY RUSHALL ROVERS?
12/10/2015 11:56
During our three years of research into the Birth Of The Saddlers book, we never came across a time when Walsall Town and Rushall Rovers ever played each other. The reasons for this are still not understood, but when Rovers were formed, it was as a result of a match billed as Walsall v Rushall in...
Sales of Birth Of The Saddlers doing well
09/02/2015 20:39
300 of the 500 printed first editions were sold in the three weeks before Christmas, making it the top seller book in Walsall at Christmas. Available fromm Walsall Waterstones (other can easily order it), Southcart Books by the Vine Pub Lower Hall Lane in Walsall, Walsall Football Club programme...
Blackburn Olympic FC
29/09/2014 18:14
This short lived club (about a decade) famously won the FA Cup in 1883 defeating Old Etonians by 2-1 and in doing so became the first team north of Oxford to win the trophy. With professional designs on winning everything they went in for,they were led by Jack Hunter (ex-Sheffield) and were...
Darwen FC
29/09/2014 17:31
One team which Walsall Town Swifts regularly came up against was Darwen FC,from Lancashire.Indeed,the current Anchor Ground is only a mile and a half from Blackburn's Ewood Park ground.
I know im not the first to track down the original Darwen ground called Barley Bank,but ive just located its...
Progress of the book
28/09/2014 20:46
The manuscript has been completed at the end of September,and I will meet with the editor in the first week of October to iron out any last anomilies. It will then be sent electronically to Chase Publishers of Hednesford where John Griffiths will do his magic on it for a couple of weeks,before it...
Great Lever FC
28/09/2014 20:25
Just after the book went to the publisher,I continued to research this club which became a sour taste in the Walsall club's mouth after they poached star defender Alf Jones in the 1880s.
Founded in 1877, a small village team only a mile from Burnley town centre,they continued to grow from strength...
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16/09/2014 21:05
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16/09/2014 21:04
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Book launch "Birth of the Saddlers"
16/09/2014 20:42
As of August 2014, the anticipated launch date is late November 2014.