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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...
Pearl of Great Price
Aug 30, 20214 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 17, 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jul 10, 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,...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 24, 20213 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 22, 20214 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...
Pearl of Great Price
Jan 29, 20213 min read
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