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Classic Football Programmes #5: Sheffield FC vs. Queens Park

Pitch Invasion 19 November @ 01:07 PM EST

Sheffield Football Club vs. Queen's Park, Centenary Celebration

This match, the world's first ever club centenary celebration, marked 100 years from the day of the founding of Sheffield Football Club, generally recognised as the world's oldest club who still play today.

Programme cover courtesy of the excellent Footysphere.

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Classic Programmes #4: Arsenal’s First Game Under Floodlights

Pitch Invasion 05 November @ 11:54 AM EST

Our Thursday programme series last week went back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane. Today, we hop across North London to Highbury, and Arsenal's first major floodlit fixture against Hapoel Tel Aviv.

Programme cover courtesy of the highly-recommended Footysphere.

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Classic Programmes #3: Tottenham Hotspur vs. Racing Club de Paris

Pitch Invasion 29 October @ 12:40 PM EST

Our new Thursday series looks at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. This week: we go back 56 years, to the first ever floodlight match at Tottenham Hotspur's White Hart lane, with the programme's cover promising Spurs were in for "very attractive visitors" and "very sporting opponents" with the visit of Racing Club de Paris.

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Classic Programmes: #2, West Bromwich Albion vs. A China Eleven

Pitch Invasion 22 October @ 11:12 AM EST

The second in our Thursday series looking at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. Today, England's West Bromwich Albion take on a mysterious "China Eleven" in a 1970s international friendly.

West Bromwich Albion vs.

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Classic Programmes: #1, Birmingham City vs. Tampa Bay Rowdies

Pitch Invasion 15 October @ 11:15 AM EST

Our new Thursday series looks at classic football programmes, that perfect accompaniment for a trip down memory lane. Today, an NASL team visits England gets rowdy.

Birmingham City vs Tampa Bay Rowdies, October 1st 1983.

Programme cover courtesy of Footysphere.

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