125 years ago this Saturday, a Scottish draper from Aston Villa wrote a letter that made history (and football as we know it)
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By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 February 2013 It was 125 years ago on Saturday, or 2 March 1888, that William McGregor, then the president of Aston Villa, wrote a letter to a small group of other football clubs, floating the idea that they should organise a league. In doing so, he changed the world, or at least the large parts of the world that know football as the only truly global game. McGregor, a draper by trade from Perthshire in Scotland, wrote to Blackburn, Bolton, Preston and West Brom saying: "
125 years ago this Saturday, a Scottish draper from Aston Villa wrote a letter that made history (and football as we know it)
125 years ago this Saturday, a Scottish…
125 years ago this Saturday, a Scottish draper from Aston Villa wrote a letter that made history (and football as we know it)
By Nick Harris SJA Internet Sports Writer of the Year 26 February 2013 It was 125 years ago on Saturday, or 2 March 1888, that William McGregor, then the president of Aston Villa, wrote a letter to a small group of other football clubs, floating the idea that they should organise a league. In doing so, he changed the world, or at least the large parts of the world that know football as the only truly global game. McGregor, a draper by trade from Perthshire in Scotland, wrote to Blackburn, Bolton, Preston and West Brom saying: "