What sources were used in the main pod, and some interesting notes about satirical football programme cartoons
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In August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. In September, the new season of the Football League kicked off.
What was the reaction, and why did 1914/15 continue, and what was its legacies?
Sources
Academic work:
Matthew Taylor, The Association Game: A History of British Football (New York, 2008).
Brandon Luedtke, ‘Playing Fields and Battlefields: The football pitch, England and the First World War’, Britain and the World, 5, no. 1 (2012), pp. 96-115.
Colin Veitch, ‘’Play up! Play up! And Win the War!’ Football, the nation and the First World War 1914-15’, Journal of Contemporary History, 20 (1985), pp. 363-378.
Assaf Mond, ‘Chelsea Football Club and the fight for professional football in First World War London’, The London Journal, 41, no. 3 (2016), pp. 266-280.
Richard Mills, ‘An Exception in War and Peace: Ipswich Town Football Club, c. 1907-1945’, Sport in History, 36, no. 2 (2016), pp. 214-241.
British Newspaper Archive:
Portsmouth Evening News
Newcastle Journal
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Star Green ‘un
Barnsley Independent
Sheffield Daily Telegraph
Dundee Courier
Yorkshire Evening Post
Leeds Mercury
Sheffield Independent
Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer
General reference/web pages/wiki:
englishfootballleaguetables.co.uk
PFA website, https://www.thepfa.com/news/2018/11/11/the-story-of-the-footballers-battalion
Jon Spurling, ‘How Man United and Liverpool fixed a match, helping Arsenal and Chelsea – but not Spurs’, FourFourTwo website (20 March 2015), [https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/how-man-united-and-liverpool-fixed-match-helping-arsenal-and-chelsea-not-spurs]
‘How Arsenal were voted into the top flight over Tottenham in 1919’, Sky Sports (November 2018), https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11564691/how-arsenal-were-voted-into-the-top-flight-over-tottenham-in-1919
Leeds United, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C.#1920%E2%80%931960:_Early_years
