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Aug 30, 20214 min read

Aug 30 The Rev Chambers, Everton & Liverpool

Today we travel to Yorkshire in the north of England where Ben Swift Chambers was born in 1845. He would become a Methodist minister and...

Jul 17, 20213 min read

July 18 Birmingham City

Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...

Jul 10, 20213 min read

July 11 Eric Liddell the Flying Scotsman

Today we remember how the Scottish Missionary Eric Liddell won the Olympic 400-meter race in Paris after he had rejected an opportunity...

Apr 24, 20213 min read

Apr 25 Barnsley FC & Muscular Christianity

Today we remember the life and death of the English clergyman Tiverton Preedy. The founder of Barnsley FC, winners of the FA Cup in 1912,...

Mar 22, 20214 min read

Mar 23 The Football League & William McGregor

Today in Andertons Hotel in Fleet Street, London, a meeting was held which led to the formation of the football league. Organised by a...

Jan 29, 20213 min read

Jan 15 - The invention of Basketball

Today in 1892 the chaplain and teacher James Naismith published the rules of basketball. This is the story of how he invented it at the...

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