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100 years ago, in the north of england, what "class" did football supporters generally come from?

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after the game had officially become Assosciation Football, and had spread from public schools, who would have been the supporters at the turn of the century?

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  1. Definitely followed by the working classes.  Other classes were nervous because of the crowds of spectators.


  2. In the late 19thC it was the working class who mainly occupied the terraces at football matches - no seats.  By the 1920s the main supporters came from the middle and lower middle class groups.

    New Castle United V Liverpool c1901

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhjTX39xK...

    At this next link you'll find a lot more football matches of the 1900s

    http://forums.britxbox.co.uk/viewtopic.p...

    hope the above helps.

  3. In the 1860s, Eton, Harrow, Westminster, Rugby, Winchester, Charterhouse, and Shrewsbury, and two London day schools, St. Pauls and Merchant Taylors's, were defined as 'Public Schools' by the educational Clarendon commission. Therefore, the middle to upper classes that would have been the main supporters at the turn of the century.  

  4. It was popularised by Church Lads' clubs, especially methodist and other nonconformists and catholics.  Definitely working class.

  5. Rugby was the 'public school'  game, because it started  at Rugby School. Football is much older, but there was a class divide, because of Rugby's association with the public  school.

    If you really want a class definition, then football was a 'cloth cap' game and had 'cloth cap' supporters.

    Now, of course, your average  man in the street probably couldn't afford a ticket for one premium game, let alone a season ticket. And if he bought a season ticket, you can bet your life his Missus would have something to say about it.

  6. working class

  7. it was upper class that went to watch it but lower class supported from outside the gates without seats

    this changed over the years to lower class watching it from seats and upper class in boxes

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