FOOTBALL COVERAGE IN THE PAPERS OF THE SHEFFIELD TELEGRAPH, c.1890-1915.

The article discusses a study on football coverage in the "Sheffield Telegraph" newspaper in 1980 until 1915 in England. Sheffield became England's fifth largest city in the 1900s, and eventually founded the world's oldest football club, Sheffield F.C. in 1857. The newspaper regularly carried photos of the League matches in 1910 and the paper was referred to as "The Green 'Un". On January 14, 1914, the "Green 'Un" was expanded to 8 pages which featured columns about players and teams. It concludes that the paper was important to the development of the local, regional and national identifies of football.