50 years of the Barlow Salmons Shield
This year is the 50th anniversary of the Barlow Salmons Shield, a football competition for schools in the Don and Dearne area. It’s named after two footballers from Mexborough, Frank Barlow and Geoff Salmons, who had benefited from the representative team of the Don & Dearne Schools FA and wanted...
Giants of the Gridiron
For kids who dream of being the next Tom Brady, their hopes no longer lie in a move to the States. They can step onto the gridiron right here in South Yorkshire with the Sheffield Giants Academy. Since starting in 2018, the Sheffield Giants Academy, based in Mosbrough, has grown...
Sheffield Home of Football
Football has five billion fans and 250 million players around the world, but only one home: Sheffield. The steel city provided the spark which enabled the beautiful game to spread to become the most popular sport in the world. And now, 166 years after history began, Sheffield is set to...
Worksop Town FC: Beloved and Betrayed
This year marks 100 years since the FA Cup final was first held at the original Wembley Stadium. And it also marks 100 years since one of the most catastrophic and irredeemable betrayals made in footballing history. Non-league Worksop Town FC sent shockwaves through the sporting world when they drew...
Totty Cup school football competition celebrates 100th anniversary
As the region’s oldest primary school football competition, the Totty Cup celebrates its centenary this year. Over the last 100 years, thousands of schoolboys from across the Don and Dearne region have laced up their boost to play for the coveted schools’ trophy – or one of them, at least;...
His brother’s keeper: remembering George and Ted Robledo
The football league’s history is littered with siblings, from the Charltons to the Nevilles and the Toures. But a footballing family whose careers constantly mirrored each other’s is the Robledos. The Robledo story is that of unity. While not always both in the starting XI, brothers George and Ted played...
Barnsley Serves the World: history of the former Slazenger Factory
This April, Experience Barnsley is unveiling a new exhibition, Barnsley Serves the World, dedicated to the former staff at Barnsley’s Slazenger factory.
Remembering 125 years of the Montagu Cup
Ahead of the 125th anniversary of the Montagu Cup final on Easter Monday, we spoke to some past finalists to relive their memories of playing in the Mont.
Montagu Cup: A game changer for the Don and Dearne’s infirm
It might be dubbed South Yorkshire’s ‘little FA Cup’, but the significance of the historic Montagu Cup is anything but small.
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