Sheffield United 1894-95
by Charlie Ross
Title
Sheffield United 1894-95
Artist
Charlie Ross
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Sheffield United Football Club is a professional football club in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, which competes in the Premier League, the top division of English football. They formed in 1889, as an offshoot of Sheffield United Cricket Club, and are nicknamed The Blades due to Sheffield's history of steel production. They have played home games at Bramall Lane since their formation.
Sheffield United won the original Football League in 1898 and the FA Cup in 1899, 1902, 1915 and 1925.
Sheffield United were the first club in English football to achieve promotion from the newly formed Second Division to the First Division in 1892–93.
The club was a founder member of thePremier League in the 1992–93 season, during which they scored the first ever goal of the Premier League era. Brian Deane was the scorer of the first goal in a 2–1 win at Bramall Lane, against the eventual champions, Manchester United.
Since the club's formation, they have played in tiers 1 through to 4 of the football league and are one of only four clubs to have finished as champions of each of the top four tiers of English football.
United were, along with Arsenal, the first team to be featured in a live radio commentary on 22 January 1927 which was broadcast by the BBC. Listeners were provided with a groundbreaking map of the pitch divided into numbered squares to aid their understanding of where the action was taking place. The area in front of the goalkeeper was numbered 1, with the game providing the first use of the phrase "back to square one."
This image shows the team on 28th September 1895 before a game against Stoke City. The goalkeeper that day was William Henry "Fatty" Foulke, a player who stood 6 feet 9 inches! He became famous for his later gains in weight, apparently reaching up to 24 stone or 335 pounds.
When Chelsea bought him in 1905 'Fatty' Foulke continued as a great crowd puller. The Club regularly posted two small boys behind goal to help him retrieve wayward shots but also to emphasise his great physique. By doing so the 'ball boy' was accidentally invented and then adopted by other clubs.
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