Pens at Play in the Low Countries Derby – How football friendlies helped shape sports journalism before the Great War
On Sunday the 10th of March 1912, 13.000 football enthusiasts saw Belgium’s national team lose to...
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On Sunday the 10th of March 1912, 13.000 football enthusiasts saw Belgium’s national team lose to...
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16th – Born on this day in 1876 was Claude Percy Buckenham, an Essex and England cricketer....
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9th – Today in 1793, Jean Pierre Blanchard made the first balloon ascent in North America. He...
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5th – The first rules of Association Football were published in Bells Life on this day in 1863....
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28th- On this day in 1906, Tommy Burns and Jack O’Brien fought to a draw for the heavyweight...
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