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  • A bit of bonus extras on Arsenal's scandalous 1930/31 season, and what people 90 years ago were thinking about the future of football

    Sources
    Academic work:
    Matthew Taylor, The Leaguers: The Making of Professional Football in England, 1900-1939

    British Newspaper Archive:
    Sheffield Independent
    Derby Daily Telegraph
    Shields Daily News
    Portsmouth Evening News
    Lancashire Evening Post
    Dundee Evening Telegraph
    Edinburgh Evening News
    Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
    The People
    Belfast Telegraph
    Birmingham Daily Gazette
    Athletic News
    Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
    Aberdeen Press and Journal
    Daily Herald
    Burnley News

    General reference/web pages/wiki:
    Gerry Farrell, ‘Halting the alien invasion’, The Football Pink, https://footballpink.net/2019-3-1-halting-the-alien-invasion/
    Nick Harris, ‘The world league’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/jul/27/sport.comment,
    Nick Harris, ‘Home and Away: How Arsenal’s imports changed the landscape’, The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/home-and-away-how-arsenals-imports-changed-the-landscape-483550.html
    ‘Gerry Keyser’, Arsenal club website, https://www.arsenal.com/historic/players/gerry-keyser
    ‘Bill Harper’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harper_(footballer,_born_1897)
    Mark Andrews, ‘The Arsenal’s Clock End Clock’, thearsenalhistory.com (September 2019), http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=13803
    David Jack information from Wikipedia page on history of football transfer fee records, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_association_football_transfers#Historical_progression

  • 1930 saw Arsenal Football Club on the brink of the team's first spell of dominance in their history. And there was scandal everywhere.

    Sources
    Academic work:
    Matthew Taylor, The Leaguers: The Making of Professional Football in England, 1900-1939

    British Newspaper Archive:
    Sheffield Independent
    Derby Daily Telegraph
    Shields Daily News
    Portsmouth Evening News
    Lancashire Evening Post
    Dundee Evening Telegraph
    Edinburgh Evening News
    Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
    The People
    Belfast Telegraph
    Birmingham Daily Gazette
    Athletic News
    Sheffield Daily Telegraph.
    Aberdeen Press and Journal
    Daily Herald
    Burnley News

    General reference/web pages/wiki:
    Gerry Farrell, ‘Halting the alien invasion’, The Football Pink, https://footballpink.net/2019-3-1-halting-the-alien-invasion/
    Nick Harris, ‘The world league’, The Guardian, https://www.theguardian.com/football/2003/jul/27/sport.comment,
    Nick Harris, ‘Home and Away: How Arsenal’s imports changed the landscape’, The Independent, https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/news-and-comment/home-and-away-how-arsenals-imports-changed-the-landscape-483550.html
    ‘Gerry Keyser’, Arsenal club website, https://www.arsenal.com/historic/players/gerry-keyser
    ‘Bill Harper’, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Harper_(footballer,_born_1897)
    Mark Andrews, ‘The Arsenal’s Clock End Clock’, thearsenalhistory.com (September 2019), http://www.thearsenalhistory.com/?p=13803
    David Jack information from Wikipedia page on history of football transfer fee records, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_association_football_transfers#Historical_progression

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  • What sources were used in the main pod, and some interesting notes about satirical football programme cartoons

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    In August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. In September, the new season of the Football League kicked off.

    What was the reaction, and why did 1914/15 continue, and what was its legacies?

    Sources
    Academic work:
    Matthew Taylor, The Association Game: A History of British Football (New York, 2008).
    Brandon Luedtke, ‘Playing Fields and Battlefields: The football pitch, England and the First World War’, Britain and the World, 5, no. 1 (2012), pp. 96-115.
    Colin Veitch, ‘’Play up! Play up! And Win the War!’ Football, the nation and the First World War 1914-15’, Journal of Contemporary History, 20 (1985), pp. 363-378.
    Assaf Mond, ‘Chelsea Football Club and the fight for professional football in First World War London’, The London Journal, 41, no. 3 (2016), pp. 266-280.
    Richard Mills, ‘An Exception in War and Peace: Ipswich Town Football Club, c. 1907-1945’, Sport in History, 36, no. 2 (2016), pp. 214-241.

    British Newspaper Archive:
    Portsmouth Evening News
    Newcastle Journal
    Sheffield Daily Telegraph
    Star Green ‘un
    Barnsley Independent
    Sheffield Daily Telegraph
    Dundee Courier
    Yorkshire Evening Post
    Leeds Mercury
    Sheffield Independent
    Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer

    General reference/web pages/wiki:
    englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk
    PFA website, https://www.thepfa.com/news/2018/11/11/the-story-of-the-footballers-battalion
    Jon Spurling, ‘How Man United and Liverpool fixed a match, helping Arsenal and Chelsea – but not Spurs’, FourFourTwo website (20 March 2015), [https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/how-man-united-and-liverpool-fixed-match-helping-arsenal-and-chelsea-not-spurs]
    ‘How Arsenal were voted into the top flight over Tottenham in 1919’, Sky Sports (November 2018), https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11564691/how-arsenal-were-voted-into-the-top-flight-over-tottenham-in-1919
    Leeds United, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C.#1920%E2%80%931960:_Early_years

  • In August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. In September, the new season of the Football League kicked off.

    What was the reaction, and why did 1914/15 continue, and what was its legacies?

    Sources
    Academic work:
    Matthew Taylor, The Association Game: A History of British Football (New York, 2008).
    Brandon Luedtke, ‘Playing Fields and Battlefields: The football pitch, England and the First World War’, Britain and the World, 5, no. 1 (2012), pp. 96-115.
    Colin Veitch, ‘’Play up! Play up! And Win the War!’ Football, the nation and the First World War 1914-15’, Journal of Contemporary History, 20 (1985), pp. 363-378.
    Assaf Mond, ‘Chelsea Football Club and the fight for professional football in First World War London’, The London Journal, 41, no. 3 (2016), pp. 266-280.
    Richard Mills, ‘An Exception in War and Peace: Ipswich Town Football Club, c. 1907-1945’, Sport in History, 36, no. 2 (2016), pp. 214-241.

    British Newspaper Archive:
    Portsmouth Evening News
    Newcastle Journal
    Sheffield Daily Telegraph
    Star Green ‘un
    Barnsley Independent
    Sheffield Daily Telegraph
    Dundee Courier
    Yorkshire Evening Post
    Leeds Mercury
    Sheffield Independent
    Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer

    General reference/web pages/wiki:
    englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk
    PFA website, https://www.thepfa.com/news/2018/11/11/the-story-of-the-footballers-battalion
    Jon Spurling, ‘How Man United and Liverpool fixed a match, helping Arsenal and Chelsea – but not Spurs’, FourFourTwo website (20 March 2015), [https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/how-man-united-and-liverpool-fixed-match-helping-arsenal-and-chelsea-not-spurs]
    ‘How Arsenal were voted into the top flight over Tottenham in 1919’, Sky Sports (November 2018), https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11564691/how-arsenal-were-voted-into-the-top-flight-over-tottenham-in-1919
    Leeds United, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C.#1920%E2%80%931960:_Early_years

  • Jean Williams' review of Tim Tate's book, 'Girls with Balls: The Secret History of Women's Football' is here: https://idrottsforum.org/wiljea_tate140219/

    Sources
    Academic work:
    Jean Williams, ‘An equality too far? Historical and contemporary perspectives of gender inequality in British and international football’, Historical Social Research, 31, no. 1 (2006), pp. 151-169
    Rob Lewis, ‘‘Our Lady Specialists at Pikes Lane’: female spectators in early English professional football, 1880-1914’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26, no. 15 (2009), pp. 2161-2181
    Robert William Lewis, ‘The female football spectator in England, 1870-1914: a Flaneuse made visible?’, Soccer & Society, 21, no. 2 (2020), pp. 121-136
    For the Football Field being published in Bolton see The Encyclopedia of British Football [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JKbb02bg6zYC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=the+football+field+and+sports+telegram&source=bl&ots=pKJ02v3odM&sig=ACfU3U39WLYyNzru2K9qDduOmCVoGW51pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-x5PypeDoAhV0kFwKHY7EDKQQ6AEwDnoECAoQOA#v=onepage&q=the%20football%20field%20and%20sports%20telegram&f=false, accessed: 11 April 2020]
    James F. Lee, ‘The Lady Footballers and the British Press, 1895’, Critical Survey, 24, no. 1 (2012), pp. 88-101.
    Alethea Melling, ‘’Plucky lasses’, ‘pea soup’ and politics: the role of ladies’ football during the 1921 miners’ lock-out in Wigan and Leith’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 16, no. 1 (1999), pp. 38-64.
    Lisa Jenkel, ‘The F.A.’s ban on women’s football 1921 in the contemporary press – a historical discourse analysis’, Sport in History, (2020), pp. 1-21
    Jessica Macbeth, ‘The development of women’s football in Scotland’, Sports Historian, 22, no. 2 (2002), pp. 149-163.

    British Newspaper Archive:
    Preston Herald
    Lancashire Evening Post
    Edinburgh Evening News
    Dundee Evening Telegraph
    Aberdeen Evening Express
    North British Daily Mail
    Glasgow Evening Post

    Web pages/reference sites/wiki:
    FIFA, https://static.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/the-game/index.html
    ‘Association football’, Wikipedia
    ‘1872 Scotland v England football match’, Wikipedia
    ‘Helen Matthews’, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Matthews
    Mary Hutson from FIFA https://www.fifa.com/womens-football/news/from-honeyball-houghton-2204023 respectively
    FIFPro site, https://fifpro.org/en/industry/covid-19-implications-for-women-s-football, and Covid-19 paper itself available: https://fifpro.org/media/zp3izxhc/fifpro-wf-covid19-new.pdf

  • In 1921, the English Football Association effectively banned women's football - but how did the sport get to that point?

    See the bonus podcast on this topic ('001 - bonus history chat') for a full talk about sources, but a list of sources used:

    Sources
    Academic work:
    Jean Williams, ‘An equality too far? Historical and contemporary perspectives of gender inequality in British and international football’, Historical Social Research, 31, no. 1 (2006), pp. 151-169
    Rob Lewis, ‘‘Our Lady Specialists at Pikes Lane’: female spectators in early English professional football, 1880-1914’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 26, no. 15 (2009), pp. 2161-2181
    Robert William Lewis, ‘The female football spectator in England, 1870-1914: a Flaneuse made visible?’, Soccer & Society, 21, no. 2 (2020), pp. 121-136
    For the Football Field being published in Bolton see The Encyclopedia of British Football [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=JKbb02bg6zYC&pg=PA237&lpg=PA237&dq=the+football+field+and+sports+telegram&source=bl&ots=pKJ02v3odM&sig=ACfU3U39WLYyNzru2K9qDduOmCVoGW51pQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-x5PypeDoAhV0kFwKHY7EDKQQ6AEwDnoECAoQOA#v=onepage&q=the%20football%20field%20and%20sports%20telegram&f=false, accessed: 11 April 2020]
    James F. Lee, ‘The Lady Footballers and the British Press, 1895’, Critical Survey, 24, no. 1 (2012), pp. 88-101.
    Alethea Melling, ‘’Plucky lasses’, ‘pea soup’ and politics: the role of ladies’ football during the 1921 miners’ lock-out in Wigan and Leith’, The International Journal of the History of Sport, 16, no. 1 (1999), pp. 38-64.
    Lisa Jenkel, ‘The F.A.’s ban on women’s football 1921 in the contemporary press – a historical discourse analysis’, Sport in History, (2020), pp. 1-21
    Jessica Macbeth, ‘The development of women’s football in Scotland’, Sports Historian, 22, no. 2 (2002), pp. 149-163.

    British Newspaper Archive:
    Preston Herald
    Lancashire Evening Post
    Edinburgh Evening News
    Dundee Evening Telegraph
    Aberdeen Evening Express
    North British Daily Mail
    Glasgow Evening Post

    Web pages/reference sites/wiki:
    FIFA, https://static.fifa.com/about-fifa/who-we-are/the-game/index.html
    ‘Association football’, Wikipedia
    ‘1872 Scotland v England football match’, Wikipedia
    ‘Helen Matthews’, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Matthews
    Mary Hutson from FIFA https://www.fifa.com/womens-football/news/from-honeyball-houghton-2204023 respectively
    FIFPro site, https://fifpro.org/en/industry/covid-19-implications-for-women-s-football, and Covid-19 paper itself available: https://fifpro.org/media/zp3izxhc/fifpro-wf-covid19-new.pdf