darklord Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I always assumed we were the only football club named Wednesday but i was in hartlepool museum earlier and saw an old poster for a match between hartlepool and hartlepool wednesday but not sure what year but was played Christmas morning. Wondered if there were any other teams to ever have Wednesday in the name? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
31Dec1966 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I live in Bolsover. In the early 1900's there was a Bolsover Wednesday. Obviously a tribute team! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
belfastowl Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Someone put this lot on here a few weeks ago. http://wednesdayfc.blogspot.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Utah Owl Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 We were the first. Back in the 1870's, there was another Sheffield team Thursday Wanderers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mosleyowl Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Abergavenny(sp?) Thursdays still play to this day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Row20 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 I always assumed we were the only football club named Wednesday but i was in hartlepool museum earlier and saw an old poster for a match between hartlepool and hartlepool wednesday but not sure what year but was played Christmas morning. Wondered if there were any other teams to ever have Wednesday in the name? The Wednesday link with Hartlepool might have been something to do with us lending them our kit. I seem to remember reading somewhere that back in the dim and distant they were short of a kit so we gave them a set of ours. Might be why they still play in blue and white stripes Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
owler66 Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 of cause we're not the only team named after a day in the week there's. MANIC MONDAY F C SHROVE TUESDAY FC ASH WEDNESDAY FC MAUNDY THURSDAY FC GOOD FRIDAY FC THE SATURDAYS FC EASTER SUNDAY FC Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darra Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Was listening to the radio on the way home a long while ago and they were talking about a U S / Canadian ? ice hockey team who saw an article about the MASSIVE and thought it was so cool they called themselves ? Wednesday. Done a google to try and find out who they are but turned up nowt so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Buggleskkely Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Put Buggleskelly in to Gooogle dim one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatzooma Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 Don't know but it's a rumblein brilliant name and totally unique! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leaping Lannys Perm Posted June 3, 2012 Share Posted June 3, 2012 This thread started me on a rediculously long 2 and a half hour Wikipedia walk. Started with Abergavenny Thursday and went all the way to a short lived and unfinished Eiffel Tower clone in Wembley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 (edited) If anyone is interested this is a list of the clubs and their colours that made up the Sheffield and Hallamshire League in 1877 - so its not just Wednesday who are OLDER and BETTER ! Albion (1872) White Artillery and Hallamshire Rifles (1870) White and Blue Attercliffe (1870) Blue and White Brightside (1872) Yellow, Red cap Brincliffe (1868) Amber and Black Broomhall (1868) Black and White Crookes (1870) White Exchange (1863) Scarlet and White Exchange Brewery (1871) Amber and Black Fir Vale (1862) White and Scarlet trimmings Gleadless (1870)White Hallam (1857) Blue and White Heeley (1862) Grey and White stripes Kimberworth (1871) Blue and White (at Rotherham) Millhouses (1871) Scarlet and Black Norfolk (1861) Scarlet and White Norfolk Works (1872) Blue and White hoops Owlerton (1873) Scarlet and Black hoops Oxford (1869) Blue and Yellow Parkwood Springs (1870) White with Amber and Black caps Philadelphia (1873) Blue caps Rotherham (1870) Scarlet and White Sheffield (1857) Scarlet Surrey (1870) Scarlet and White Thursday Wanderers (1870) Colours unknown Wednesday (1867) Blue and White hoops Edited June 4, 2012 by dunsbyowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgmetcalf Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Makes you wonder how Tottenham Hotspur got their name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfmanjack Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 Makes you wonder how Tottenham Hotspur got their name Summat to do with the Percy family from Northumberland. Their son, Henry (I believe) was nicknamed Harry Hotspur and was a famous English soldier of about six hundred years ago. I may be wrong, but I think that the Percy family in the dim and distant past owned the part of London known as Toteenham. It's funny how stuff you read on the back of a matchbox fourty years ago comes in handy from time to time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfmanjack Posted June 4, 2012 Share Posted June 4, 2012 People with beer bellys shud be banned from wearin football shirts Mine's nowt to do wi' beer, and it'll be paraded proudly round S W Turkey, in a Wednesday shirt, for a couple of weeks from next Monday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) West Hartlepool Wednesday vs Middlesborough Wednesday 1889 - WAWAW! Edited June 5, 2012 by dunsbyowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dunsbyowl Posted June 5, 2012 Share Posted June 5, 2012 (edited) Northern Daily Echo 1889 Edited June 5, 2012 by dunsbyowl Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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