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The Wanderers F.C. “Five Times F.A. Cup Winners”
The Wanderers Football
Club dominated English football two decades before clubs like Tottenham, Arsenal
and Manchester United were even founded. Based in Leytonstone, they were formed
as Forest Football Club in 1859, and were founder members of the Football
Association four years later. They
adopted the title of Wanderers after ‘wandering’ across London to Battersea
Park. The Wanderers were an
amateur team consisting mostly of ex-public school boys.
The club was captained by Charles Alcock, later chairman of the Football
Association. Alcock, who was the
organizer and leading spirit of the Wanderers.
Five times winners of the F.A. Cup, home at some stage of their careers
to more than forty English International players including the legendary Lord
Kinnaird, the Wanderers are the very epitome of the early, heroic, age of the
Association game. The clubs decline was astonishingly rapid, within five years
of their final F A Cup win the team was disbanded. The rapid expansion of ‘Old Boys’ sides, such as Old
Etonians and the Old Carthusians, drained
the pool of players available to the Wanderers.
It is surprising, therefore, that until
now no comprehensive history of this renowned club has been available to the
football enthusiast. ‘The Wanderers F.C.’ remedies that emission, beginning
with a fascinating account of the club’s rise and fall wiith generous use of contemporary
accounts, together with a full statistical record of every game played by the
club between its formation in 1859 until the club disbanded in 1883.
There are also brief biographies of fifty of the most prominent
players with notes on others of interest who appeared for the club, including Julian Russell
Sturgis an American-born novelist, poet, librettist and lyricist, who played for
the Wanderers F.C. in the Cup final of 1873. This book is a must for anyone interested in golden age of amateur football and all football fans who enjoy their history. If you would like to order this book or contact the author check out his website at www.dognduck.net |
