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Whiteinch F.C.
Whiteinch Football Club was a Association football, football club based in the burgh of Whiteinch (now part of the city of Glasgow), Scotland. History The club was formed in 1874. It was not a large or prestigious side; by 1877, its closest rival, Partick F.C. (1875), Partick, had over twice the membership, and one of the earliest Whiteinch matches recorded is the Whiteinch first XI taking on the Partick second XI in the 1875–76 season. Whiteinch entered the Scottish Cup on three occasions. Whiteinch was particularly unlucky in its competition debut in 1877–78 Scottish Cup, 1877–78, being drawn to play at the dominant Queen's Park F.C., Queen's Park. The Q.P. duly won 9–0, seven of the goals coming in the second half. The club was a little more successful in the 1878–79 Scottish Cup, reaching the second round after two draws with Pollokshields Athletic F.C., Pollokshields Athletic, both matches ending 3–3. The rules of the competition at the time allowed both te ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Derby F
Derby ( ) is a city and unitary authority area in Derbyshire, England. It lies on the banks of the River Derwent in the south of Derbyshire, which is in the East Midlands Region. It was traditionally the county town of Derbyshire. Derby gained city status in 1977, the population size has increased by 5.1%, from around 248,800 in 2011 to 261,400 in 2021. Derby was settled by Romans, who established the town of Derventio, later captured by the Anglo-Saxons, and later still by the Vikings, who made their town of one of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw. Initially a market town, Derby grew rapidly in the industrial era. Home to Lombe's Mill, an early British factory, Derby has a claim to be one of the birthplaces of the Industrial Revolution. It contains the southern part of the Derwent Valley Mills World Heritage Site. With the arrival of the railways in the 19th century, Derby became a centre of the British rail industry. Derby is a centre for advanced transport manufacturing, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
