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    All Shook Up: Bury FC's Amazing Cup Story - FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903
    All Shook Up: Bury FC's Amazing Cup Story - FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903
    All Shook Up: Bury FC's Amazing Cup Story - FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903
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    All Shook Up: Bury FC's Amazing Cup Story - FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903

    By Mark Metcalf

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    This is the incredible true story of the Lancashire team who dominated the world's first cup competition at the beginning of the 20th century. Bury FC, FA Cup winners in 1900 and 1903, won the famous competition before Manchester United were formed and 65 years before Liverpool finally triumphed.
    Award-winning journalist Mark Metcalf tells the story of how a small town team took on and beat the cream of Edwardian English football and triumphed twice at Crystal Palace. Illustrated with contemporary photographs, newspaper cuttings and memorabilia, this is a reminder of when the FA Cup was the ultimate prize in football and Bury the undisputed kings of The Cup.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEmpire Publications
    Release dateFeb 21, 2013
    ISBN9781901746730
    All Shook Up: Bury FC's Amazing Cup Story - FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903

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      All Shook Up - Mark Metcalf

      ALL SHOOK UP

      Bury FC's Amazing Cup Story - FA Cup Winners 1900 & 1903

      MARK METCALF

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      First published in 2011 by Empire Publications

      Smashwords Edition

      © Mark Metcalf 2011

      ISBN: 1901 746 739

      The author asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work.

      Published by Empire Publications at Smashwords

      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This book is available in print at:

      http://www.empire-uk.com

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      Foreword

      Bury Football Club’s record in the FA Cup is unique, and in today’s modern day game, stands a very good chance of remaining so for many years to come.

      We can be proud of our 125 year history and achievements.  Our history in the FA Cup is second to none and this book charts our success, it’s still a fact that every Bury FC supporter is rightly proud of.

      Whilst the days of old mentioned in this publication are beyond living memory to all of us, the chance to gain knowledge and experience just some of the applause shown to Bury Football Club at the time has been taken.

      Great time has been spent researching and digging for information in order to set into print the details of what can only be described as our greatest achievement.  Mark Metcalf has discovered many facts and photographs, some as yet unseen by many, and he deserves our thanks for that.

      A publication that will sit on many bookshelves for years to come, Bury FC welcomes this publication. The success of the 1900 and the 1903 FA Cup Finals is a story that has been waiting for over 100 years to be told - now, at last, here it is.

      Charlie Sagar, Jack Darroch, George Ross, Jack Pray, Joe Leeming, Billy Wood and Jack Plant are just a few names in the clubs long history.  Hopefully with the aid of this book, they may become just a little more-well known to Bury fans.

      Mark Catlin

      Director, Bury FC

      Introduction

      At the start of the 1899-1900 season Bury Football Club were embarking on their fifteenth football season. Established just three summers prior to the Football League kicking off in 1888 the Shakers were set, following promotion in their inaugural season, for their fifth season in Division One.

      Small crowds meant a constant struggle to survive and the club had lost in April 1899 the services of the first Bury player to gain an international Cap when James Settle moved to Everton for a much needed £400. Bury ended the season in tenth place, from eighteen, but had shown fine form in cup competitions by winning the Lancashire Senior Cup, a much sought after competition at the time and only losing out in the final of the Manchester Senior Cup.

      On their day Bury were capable of beating any side, as shown by their victories at home that season against the top two in the league, Aston Villa and Liverpool. Settle’s departure was a blow but by no means terminal as the side contained some fine players in long-serving George Ross, Joe Leeming, Jasper McLuckie, Joe Plant and top-scorer Charlie Sagar. Joining them over the summer were two lads from Middleton, Billy Wood and Billy Richards. Both were to play a big part in the FA, not to forget Lancashire and Manchester Cup successes that followed over the following four seasons, culminating in a record 6-0 victory at the 1903 FA Cup Final.

      This is the first ever book on the Bury side that twice captured the FA Cup and is dedicated to the loyal band of Shakers followers that have supported the club over the years.

      Football in 1900

      Whilst a form of football has probably existed for as long as men have had feet with which to kick things, the game as we know it today was under a hundred years old in 1900.

      Various forms of football had come into being in the major public schools during the second or third decade of the 19th century. However the first attempts to unify the different strands and establish a unified system of rules failed in 1848.

      There was more success in 1862 and in November that year a match at Cambridge took place between Cambridge Old Etonians and Cambridge Old Harrovians on a level playing field under a set of rules that almost 150 years later most football fans would recognise. Happily, the rules, which included eleven players on each side, worked and the revised Cambridge rules of 1863 became the basis for the first laws of the Football Association [FA] that was formed on October 26th 1863.

      Within eight years, on November 11th 1871, the first ever matches in the longest running competitive football competition in the world took place when eight sides lined up in the FA Cup. Its success and that of the first international matches that followed soon led to the establishment of a Football League [later Division One] in 1888 with twelve clubs.

      With a rising number of clubs seeking entry, promotion and relegation had been introduced in 1890 and a second league was formed in 1892-1893 as football’s popularity as a spectator sport developed across the country leading to an increasingly professional sport.

      Although Scottish side Queens Park are believed to have been the first side to have recognised the value of ‘letting the ball do the work’ it is Preston North End, as winners of the first two League titles, who are credited with inventing the passing game. This brought with it the need to adopt team formations for both attack and defence leading to the 2-3-5 set up of two full backs, three half backs and five forwards.

      The key player in this was the centre-half who was expected to surge forward in support of his forwards. It was usual for most sides to play their most creative player in this important position. It was to be 1925 before the role of the centre-half changed when the offside law was altered after concerns about how few goals were being scored. It meant that players could now be onside if there were only two players between themselves and their opponents’ goal rather than three.

      There were no such things as substitutes in 1900, so if a player got injured he was usually required to limp out the match on the [left] wing. There was also no such thing as advertising on strips, and numbering on the shirts was a good forty years away. The ball used was rock hard and when it got wet it could become a very heavy object that also went out of shape. Players’ boots had studs hammered into the soles.

      Without adequate drainage systems pitches bore no similarity to the fabulous billiard table-like surfaces of the Premier League today and had little grass on them, especially in the winter. Heavy rain brought puddles for the players to overcome, and on particularly rainy days the middle of the pitch would soon resemble a mud bath. This made it essential for teams to get the ball out to their wingers to attack the full-backs.

      One other significant difference compared with today was that in 1900 goalkeepers were allowed to handle the ball anywhere in their own half. If that might have made it easier for the men between the sticks what didn’t was the rule that allowed them to be shoulder charged, just like any other player, with or without the ball and there were some very rough challenges on them in 1900.

      The FA Cup until 1900

      The FA Cup is the longest running football tournament in the World. It kicked off on November 11, 1871 when eight teams took part in the first truly competitive football matches as a prize awaited the competition winners. The organisation behind it were the Football Association, hence the FA Cup, which had been formed in 1863 with the object of establishing a definite code of rules for the regulation of the game.

      On the evening of July 20, 1871 FA secretary, Charles William Alcock, proposal that a Challenge Cup should be established was accepted and the FA Cup was thus born. Alcock was to live to see the first Wembley final in 1923, dying aged 93 the following year.

      The first final, at Kennington Oval, was contested between the Wanderers and Royal Engineers on March 16th 1872. Wanderers’ success, the first of five, came from a single goal scored by Morton Peto

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