History In 1855, members of a local cricket club began to play football for fun during the winter months as the weather was bad for cricket. In 1857, football because just as popular as cricket at the club.
William Prest and Nathaniel Creswick were cricket enthusiasts but because cricket was a summer sport and they had no sport to play in winter, mainly to keep there fitness up and there competitive mentality for the summer. Association football, they decided over a lengthy, late-night chat, was the answer.
So plans were drawn up to form a football club and on 24 October 1857, Sheffield FC was born - its headquarters located in a potting shed and green house. Creswick was appointed captain and secretary and he and Prest went about establishing a set of rules that would allow for the activity's progression.
Over the next 10 years Sheffield FC under the "Sheffield Rules" played many games against themselves, forming teams out from marital status, age and Job but in 1860, Hallam FC was formed and the first "recorded" football match was played. The match was played on the 26th December 1860 and despite playing with inferior numbers Sheffield F.C. beat Hallam 2–0 in a match said to have lasted 3 hours.
Recent History Sheffield FC has slowly fell down the footballing ladder after the FA made it so that only professional clubs could be in the top flight (then Division 1) so they found themselves in UniBond League Division One South.
Today...not real In 2004, a local man with a small fortune took over the club and has secured the clubs future financially, and has put the club in the hands of his son, Joshua Darling who is now manager. Sheffield FC fan were dubious of this decision, claiming that Joshua Darling's lack of experience in Football Management would ruin the clubs chances of moving forward, but he showed them wrong be gaining two promotions and converting them from an amateur, mid-table UniBond League One side into a Blue Square North, Semi Professional Side.
So now I must do the impossible, I must take the oldest club in the world to the big league again. No matter how hard it takes. I have kept everything the same, All I have done is put them in the Blue Square North and added Sheff Wed and Sheff United as parent clubs.
Follow my stunning Career managing the oldest club in the world. Captain of the club in Leon Wainman who is a teacher at my school.
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