A posh way of admitting all the things I've cribbed, nicked or borrowed to make this site plus a brief rationale.

My interest stemmed from the Keith Farnsworth "A Complete Record" but most of my research involved lots of eye-straining in the newspaper reader room of the local studies library in Surrey Street. I started to build up stats related to Sheffield Wednesday's early years and slowly got drawn into the history of Sheffield football and the history of football in general.
    My research is nowhere near complete (as anyone with the patience to work their way through the site will notice) and when it is complete I'm not sure what I'll do with it. From the start it was really just a personal project, but using a website gave me a good reason to rationalise my research and present it in a half decent way. I could have waited until I had completely finished, but that's a good year or two down the line and making it accessible to other people (even if only a few people ever see it) forces me to at least make it readable and that will make it easier to pull together at the end.
   The point is there are lots of gaps and unfinished pieces which is the way it is meant to be. I'll keep a record of changes on the UPDATE page but don't expect things to be perfect. This ain't Football365 you know!
     With any luck it will start to get more wordy over time and I'll put up an image gallery as well.

     The recent Wednesday stuff is there because (as you may have noticed) I am an anorak and I like to see the statistics of the past few years. The Wednesday Archive is a brilliant place to start - but it ends in 1995 and so I thought I'd like to pick it up there and add what I can.

     The Women's pages came about because of the begger of a task I had finding information about early (men's) football. When I tried to look up Women's football history (because of Sheffield Wednesday's Ladies) I found almost nothing so I thought I'd see if I could archive the top Women's league and Cup. I've got the last 3 or 4 season so now I've got to go hunting the older stuff (I'm especially interested in seeing if I can find WFA Cup records back to 1971).

    If you stop by and have a look, enjoy yourself and if you are interested keep coming back because there'll be something new weekly.

     Plus I'm happy to answer any questions about the site or football history in general.

Andrew Drake

Some of the graphics came from resource lane

  Here are the other books from which I have gleaned information.