The Steel City Derby Returns
After five years, the region’s most fiercely contested football derby is back. Forget the Manchester, Merseyside, North London or Second City derbies. It’s the Steel City derby that has South Yorkshire in a chokehold. It’s akin to tribal warfare. Over 130 years of bad blood. Cut you and you bleed...
Penistone’s forgotten founding fathers of football
Sheffield lays its claim as the home of football. But the outer lying town of Penistone can be credited with nurturing the beautiful game in its infancy thanks to the plights of three local men. On the field surrounding Penistone Grammar School, the fledgling game of football began to take...
Worksop’s Olympic champion turned career criminal
It’s the 2024 Olympics in Paris this summer. But did you know that it was in Paris 124 years ago that a 21-year-old Worksop man captained the first team to become Olympic football champions. Henry North Haslam was an amateur footballer who was selected to lead Upton Park FC, the...
A warrior in women’s football
They call her the Chief of the Warriors. And rightly so. Over the last three years, Megan Wylde has fought for a space in football for women like her. She’s become a community powerhouse, changing the landscape of football and fitness in her hometown of Rotherham. Her tribe of fellow...
Aroundtown Meets Brian Hirst
How many kids dream of being a footballer when they grow up? But how many would sacrifice their dreams for family? Brian Hirst did. When given the opportunity to break into the first team of his boyhood club, Rotherham United, he turned down the contract to put his family’s considerations...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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