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Finding Eadie Fraser: The story of how one of Scotland’s earliest football stars ended up buried in the Australian bush

Twenty thousand souls were crammed into Hampden Park. Five times they leapt to their feet in wild delight as England crumbled under Scotland’s second half hammer blows. How ...
On February 10, 2020 / By Paul Nicholls
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The Birth of Football Mania (or how football replaced religion as the opium of the people)

In 1895 the renowned English sportsman (and polymath) Charles Burgess Fry noted that the burgeoning interest in Association football in the North of England was ‘almost a passion.’ ...
On February 26, 2015 / By Matthew Klugman