West End F.C. (London)
West End was an English association football club from London, with a claimed foundation date of 1868. History West End was the works side of the Marshall & Snelgrove department store. The club's first recorded match was in October 1873. Its first year of entry to the FA Cup was 1879–80, and the club reached the fourth round (last ten), albeit thanks to one bye and one walkover after the Swifts withdrew from the competition. The club reached the second round of the Cup in the next two years. In 1881–82, the club drew 1–1 with Reading, but was disqualified before the replay could take place for an unknown reason. The club's last FA Cup tie was a 3–3 draw with Upton Park in 1884–85 as it withdrew from the competition before the replay. It had success on a more local level, winning the West End Challenge Cup (set up in 1881 for works sides from "large retail houses") for the first time in 1882–83, by beating Prairie Rangers (the works side of Harvey Nichols ...
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Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ...
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