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Porth Athletic F.C.
Porth Athletic F.C. was an association football club from Porth, Wales, which won the Welsh League in 1921–22. History The first reference to the club is from 1906. It played at a local level until after the First World War, when the club took a more ambitious attitude, entering the Southern Football League, Southern League and Welsh League in 1919, the Welsh Cup for the first time in 1920, and the FA Cup in 1921, and recruiting as manager Frederick G. B. Mortimer, formerly of Bristol City and Swansea City, Swansea Town. Mortimer was dismissed in acrimonious circumstances in October 1919; it emerged that he had been accused of stealing income tax payments when he worked as a tax collector. In 1920 the club recruited Billy Ball as player-manager from Swansea Town. The club was incorporated in May 1921 in order to raise the funds to buy a new ground at Caermawr, and one of the chief investors was the Rhondda Tramways Company. The club's best season was 1921–22, the squa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Football League
The Southern League is a football competition featuring semi-professional clubs from East Anglia, the South and Midlands of England, and South Wales. Together with the Isthmian League and the Northern Premier League it forms levels seven and eight of the English football league system. The structure of the Southern League has changed several times since its formation in 1894, and currently there are 87 clubs which are divided into four divisions. The Central and South Divisions are at step 3 of the National League System (NLS), and are feeder divisions, mainly to the National League South but also to the National League North. Feeding the Premier Divisions are two regional divisions, Division One Central and Division One South, which are at step 4 of the NLS. These divisions are in turn fed by various regional leagues. The league has its administrative head office at Eastgate House in Gloucester. History Football in the south of England Professional football (and, in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
