David Knight
First Sergeant
- Joined
- Feb 26, 2012
- Location
- Pontefract, Yorkshire.
Whilst browsing for no good reason I was looking at the history of Brammall Lane, a soccer ground in Sheffield, the home of Sheffield United FC, when I found this.
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Football at the Lane[edit]
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The ground hosted its first football match on 29 December 1862, between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C. The game was played to raise money for the Lancashire Distress Fund and ended 0–0."
Now that is an unlikely link to the Civil War but was a direct result of the Cotton famine created by the US Naval blockade of the CSA.
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Football at the Lane[edit]
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The ground hosted its first football match on 29 December 1862, between Sheffield F.C. and Hallam F.C. The game was played to raise money for the Lancashire Distress Fund and ended 0–0."
Now that is an unlikely link to the Civil War but was a direct result of the Cotton famine created by the US Naval blockade of the CSA.