Manchester United Football Club History Manchester United Football Club is one of the most successful clubs in Britain along with the likes of Liverpool, Rangers and Arsenal but in this paper I will take a look why United are simply just the best there is. The Birth Of A Legend It all started way back in the 1870’s when a group of railway workers decided to form a football club to play in on the weekends. They called the team The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway Football Club but in 1878 renamed themselves Newton Heath. In the early 1890’s the Football League accepted their application to join the league and were placed in the First Division, as there was two divisions. …show more content…
Old Trafford opened in 1910 but Liverpool won the first game there 4-3. In 1910/11 United won their second First Division title and a year later picked up their second Charity Shield, after winning their first in 1908. The Indifferent 30’s, 40’s and 50’s In 1934 came a vital clash in the history of this great club. They had to travel to Millwall and beat them to stay in the Second Division otherwise they would sink to the unthinkable depths of the Third Division North. They won 2-0 and just a season later won the Second Division title to win promotion back up to the First Division. In the mid 1940’s World War II erupted therefore destroying Old Trafford so the club had to sign an agreement with arch rivals Manchester City to play at their home ground Maine Road. The board also appointed Matt Busby as new team manager, a move which was to change the club dramatically. He captured his first tile in 1951/52 as United became First Division champions, but Mr. Busby wasn’t happy and he decided the team needed some new blood and he brang together a group of extremely talented youngsters which became known all around the world as “ The Busby Babes “. In 1955/56 The Babes won the First Division championship and entered the European Cup, the biggest club competition in the world. They went out in the semi-finals, to eventual Real Madrid, but they retained the league title the following season so they could enter the competition again. They wouldn’t
The Green Bay Packers are the oldest team to never change its name or location. The New York Football Giants joined the league in 1925. The Portsmouth Spartans joined in 1930. The Spartans relocated to Detroit in 1934 and became the Detroit Lions. The Indianapolis Colts also trace their roots back to a founding member of the APFA, the Dayton Triangles, but are considered a separate franchise from the Triangles and was founded in 1953 as the Baltimore Colts.
Arsenal was founded in 1866 by factory workers of The royal Arsenal. These factory workers first started the club for something in their spare time but later on became bigger. the club was first called: Dial Square and later changed its name to Royal Arsenal. They first played in the lower leagues of English football but in 1893 got promoted to the: Football League where it changed the name to Woolwich Arsenal. They later started calling themselves The Gunners. This name was really easy to choose because all the people that worked for the club where also factory workers of the weapon factory: The Royal Arsenal. The club started playing really well so they became one of the best in England. They were able to pay a new Stadium in Highbury so they got rid of the word Woolwich in their name. When the club was at Highbury they won a lot of trophies and became one of Europe's best. With the great players like Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp, Patrick Viera and Saul Campbell they reached the Champions league final after a staggering season with zero losses. Unfortunately the lost the final in the last few minutes. After the final the
1. The history of the Cleveland Browns they were established in 1944 . The Browns were built on a foundation of glory . They started out playing ball in the aafc. Then later joined the NFL.
Babe went on to talk about how this was the biggest deal in history at the time. He said that people started calling it “Curse of the Bambino”, because the Red Sox didn’t win a single World Series title after that. He went on to talk about all his baseball secrets and little stories with the broadcasters and viewers. Then the question came of his retirement and why he chooses to leave the Yankees. He talked about his health and that it was time for him to focus on that and his family. The many great years and experiences that he had would always be something for him to remember for years to
Game one started easy enough when junior Ian Graham was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded in the bottom of the first. However, Centenary exploded for 17 runs in the bottom of the third – believed to be the most runs scored in a single frame by the Gents in team history. Senior Michael Schimpf walked and scored on junior Chris Zapata’s home run down the
The National Football League was officially founded on September 17, 1920 in Canton, Ohio. Ralph Hay, the owner of the Canton Bulldogs, is credited with the organizing of the meeting in which the NFL was agreed upon. The original 14 teams were the Buffalo Bison, the Akron Pros, the Canton Bulldogs, the Chicago Tigers, the Cleveland Indians, the Columbus Panhandles,
In December of 1919 Babe was sold to the New York Yankees. Prior to Ruth's arrival in New York, the team had never won a pennant. With "The Babe" as part of their team they became a dominant force in major league baseball, winning seven pennants and four World Championships from 1920 to 1933. In 1921, the couple adopted a baby girl, Dorothy.
The year was 1920 and pro-football was in a state of confusion. The three main problems that led to all the confusion were, salaries rising, players jumping from team to team and the use of players still enrolled in college. So, on August 20, 1920, a group of men representing the four current pro teams met. When the day was done the American Professional Football Conference was born.
Unions have been around for a long time. The first recorded union was in 1792, when shoemakers in Philadelphia met to consider matters of common interest. This earliest form of
In the year 1870 Football started at Princeton a college in New Jersey, the game of football began- just for fun. Then a man named , Walter Camp organized a football league with other colleges, and then that's when the
Game results: to achieve Real Madrid’s vision to be the best in the world, the club hired the best football players, e.g. by bringing the “Galacticos” which also enabled the team to borrow the player’s image and gave endorsement to the brand.
Both sides come from Spain, a place where football is highly competitive. This local rivalry is important because there is a ton of psychology that effects players on the pitch. Every player WANTS to win, there is nothing being held back when the players go onto the field. Historically, both teams are extremely successful. Real Madrid and Barcelona have over 20 league titles each, 32 and 22 respectively. As for the Spanish Cup, Copa del Rey, they are also very triumphant, Real Madrid’s 19 wins to Barcelona’s 26. This massive success in these local competitions cemented both teams as the most victorious teams in all of Spain. Europe’s biggest competition, UEFA Champions League, where all the fantastic teams all across Europe compete with one another, is another area
During the 1800’s Great Britain’s empire stretched around the world, and with raw materials easily available to them this way, they inevitably began refining and manufacturing all stages of many new machines and other goods, distributing locally and globally. However, despite being the central ‘workshop of the world,’ Britain was not producing the highest quality of merchandise. When comparing factory-made products made in England to surrounding countries, most notably France, those products could not compare as far as craftsmanship and sometimes, simply innovation. It was suggested by Prince Albert that England host a sort of free-for-all technological exposition to bring in outside crafts into the country and also
The history of football is interesting as well as exciting, from the first forms of the game ever played, to the multi million dollar organizations of today. The game continues to evolve and change with the times.
It has been suggested that the UCL is a product of societal evolution. After forty years without change the European Cup had become commercially obsolete to broadcasters and sponsors due to the lack of guaranteed matches involving Europe’s biggest clubs (Ahlstrom, 2002). The knockout format allowed for clubs who would bring in large sums of revenue to be eliminated after merely two games.