Chirk A.A.A
(…since 1876…)
Thomas, Jones, Povey, Wynn, Owen, Owen, Jones, Davies, Griffiths, Owen, Williams, Owen & Griffiths*…
Chirk Amateur Athletic Association Football Club’s first Welsh Cup winning team of 1887…
…*surely the most Welsh sounding set of surnames ever to set 22 pedal extremities** upon a Football field…
One of the earliest proponents of the glorious game in the Principality, Chirk had landed the Welsh Cup five times by 1894 (...not a single one since, however, but what can one say except…
…“This is Football! ”
…The North Wales-ians would take to the field wearing immaculate All-White with sensational satin Red Sashes…
…they’d never be caught short without a Blue set, however, y’know…just in case…
Chirk have also appeared in Blue/White, Red/White Halves…
…Young Meredith’s never much one for listening, leaves the “Colliers” (& Mother) for Manchester City…
Billy’ll appear in the debut Charity Shield match of 1909 between his First Division Champions, Manchester United side & winners of the Southern League, Queens Park Rangers*, a 0-0 draw held at Stamford Bridge- United win the replay, also at the Bridge, 4-0…
In 1900 the club wins the Combination, the Football League’s chief competitor & mortal rival, beating Wrexham to the title by a single point…
Far & away the Cymry’n Clubs most famous fledgling, the mercurial Meredith, (Billy, that’ll be…) Association Football’s first undisputed Super-Star, would, according to some, would probably have been better off never to’ve left Chirk in the first place…
…Not listening…
“…Our boys are happy & healthy, satisfied with their work & simple amusements-If Billy takes my advice he will stick to his work & play Football for his own amusement…”
Billy’s Mum…
*…Green & White Hoops for the ‘R’s’, in those days…
David “Di ” Jones
“…One of the finest Full-Backs the game has ever known…” who after writing himself in Chirk-ian folklore by winning two Welsh Cups whilst with them before embarking for a crack at a professional career over the border at Bolton Wanderers, captaining the hot favourites during their 1894 Cup Final calamity versus 2nd tier Notts County before eventually joining up with best bud Bill, over at City…
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Bill
Dog
Di’s sad demise at the age of thirty-four leads Meredith to taking up the fight for safer playing conditions, (Jones had punctured his knee on a piece glass on City’s Hyde Road pitch during a practice match for the forthcoming 1902/03 & is dead of tetanus within the ten days…) which will eventually lead to the formation of the Players Football Association…
Billy & the Outcasts…coming soon…
…Natty !
Wraining in Wrexham…
The “Colliers”experience a second golden age, half a century (…or so…), later, reaching five Welsh Amateur Cups between 1951 & 1963, winning on three occasions…
Here be the side of ‘59…
…Front; Goodwin, Rawlings, Riley, Shiel, Porter
…who’ll get to collect the first of them, sorting out Whitchurch Alport, 2-0 in the Final…
Back; Jones, Cawley, Hughes, Jones, Jones, Roberts…
…victors to a man…
Chirkin’ ‘eck!
Chirk’s Achievements…
Welsh Cup: (5) 1886-87, 1887-88, 1889-90, 1891-92, 1893-94…Runners-Up: 1892-93
Welsh Amateur Cup: (3) 1958-59, 1959-60, 1961-62…Runners-Up: (2) 1951-52, 1954-55
Welsh National League Cup: 1953-54
Combination Champions: 1899-1900
Soames Cup: 1900
Shropshire Mayor’s Charity Cup: 1900
Credit, where Credit’s due, Brian…
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