Warwick County F.C.

Warwick County
Full nameWarwick County Football Club
Nickname(s)the County
Founded1887
DissolvedApril 1891
GroundEdgbaston
ChairmanLord Clevedon[1]

Warwick County F.C. was the association football division of Warwickshire County Cricket Club.

History

Advert for the Warwick County v Aston Villa tie in the Birmingham Senior Cup, Birmingham Mail, 7 October 1887

Following the examples of Notts County and Derby County, both of which were, in origin, county cricket clubs, the Warwickshire CCC decided to start up a football division in 1887,[2] playing at the Edgbaston ground during the winter. However, whereas Notts had a clean slate, and Derbyshire only had works or school sides with which to compete, by 1887 the Birmingham football scene was fully mature, with Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion, Birmingham St George's, and Small Heath Alliance all being professional clubs with strong fanbases. Consequently, despite the resources of the cricket club, County failed to gain a foothold, with "good gates" being elusive,[3] and the media being "always asserted that the venture was a hopeless one".[4]

Further, the name caused confusion, with a number of county football associations assuming the club was the representative club of the Warwickshire Football Association (an organization which did not exist) and inviting it to play representative fixtures.[5]

The first competitive game the club played was in the Birmingham Senior Cup in 1887–88, losing 11–0 at home to Aston Villa, albeit in front of 5,000 spectators. Nevertheless, this showed the impossibility the new club faced in bridging the gap. In fact, in its four entries to the local competition, it only reached the second round once.[6]

FA Cup

One week after the club's Birmingham Senior Cup debut, the club made its FA Cup debut, being drawn to play Birmingham Excelsior at home. Excelsior was a second-rank side in the town but easily won 4–1, the County goal being an own goal by Lovesey.[7] Despite Lovesey's gift, the Football Association ordered a replay, on the basis that Lovesey did not appear on the list of professional players; it later turned out that Excelsior had sent the appropriate papers and it was an FA clerical error that had not included Lovesey's name on the list those eligible to play.[8] It did County no good - Excelsior won the replay 5–0.[9]

The club entered the Cup for the next three seasons. In the first qualifying round of 1888–89, the club, scored a notable shock by beating Stoke 2–1; the first example of a non-league team beating a Football League team. However, the county was not facing the Stoke first team, as League commitments required the Potters to play at Preston North End, so the match was against Stoke's reserve side Stoke Swifts - albeit supplemented by four first team men, supposedly to guarantee Stoke's progression into the next round.[10] The 1888-89 competition marked the county's best Cup run, the club beating Aston Shakespeare F.C. after knocking out Stoke.[11] The run ended at the third qualifying round, County losing 5–1 at Burton Wanderers, who in turn went down 9–0 to County's closest geographical rivals (Small Heath).

Midland League and Warwickshire Cup success

In 1889–90, the club was a founder member of the Midland Counties League.[12] It had recruited heavily, with the new Warwickshire Association's representative side to face Manchester including three County players, plus five from Small Heath and three from Birmingham St George's,[13] and winger Gray selected for the much more prestigious Birmingham and District side at the end of the season.[14]

The club finished 6th out of 11 in its first season, with crowds usually around 1,000,[15] and finished the year on a high note, beating champions Lincoln City 5–2,[16] and sharing the Warwickshire Cup with Small Heath. The competition however was rather low-key, with only 10 entries, and County, Small Heath, and St George's all exempted to the semi-final stage. In the semi-final, St George's fielded a reserve side against County, who duly won 5–1.[17]

Further, the final, at the County Ground, ended in acrimony, with one player from each side ordered off for fighting; neither side put out a first team, and, with the match ending in a 1–1 draw,[18] and the football season over, it was decided that the clubs would share the trophy.[19]

Final season

County was described at the end of the 1889–90 season as the most improved club in the Midlands;[20] however, with many other local clubs being part of more prestigious leagues, the club's backers found it pointless to keep putting in money, and a number of "imported" players left, leaving the club reliant on local players.[21] Two imported players - James Paten and James Cowan - had been recruited from Vale of Leven on the understanding that they would play for the club, but be employed by a "horse-clipping" business run by County secretary Charles Brown, in order to avoid the restrictions on imported professionals. At the start of the 1890–91 season, both left for Aston Villa, on the basis that the contracts did not force them to play football for County.[22]

The club's second season in the League was its last; by March it was "in a bad way pecuniarily"[23] and, despite the efforts of the club, which included hosting three matches at the same time at the County Ground, the club lost £150 in the season.[24]

The club did at least win a tie in the Birmingham Senior Cup, albeit against a Walsall Town Swifts reserve side as the first team was playing in the Walsall Cup;[25] Walsall had also been disappointed by having to re-play the tie, having beaten the County 6–5 after extra time,[26] but the Birmingham FA committee upheld a protest that the extra half-an-hour was played in the dark.[27] In the second round, the County lost 6–0 to West Bromwich Albion.[28]

In April 1891, with the club having registered just 8 points in 13 Midland League matches, being bottom of the table, and with many fixtures left unfulfilled,[29] it was obvious the club was moribund. After a 4–0 defeat at Burton Wanderers on 4 April 1891,[30] the club threw in the towel; the Midland League expelled the defunct club and expunged its fixtures.[31]

The club never had a chance of succeeding; gates were difficult to obtain, valuable money was squandered at the outset, and the fabulous prices demanded by first-class players prevented the County obtaining the services of many really capable men. The venture was an ill-starred one; we warned the promoters of the difficulties they would have to encounter at the start, and our dismal forebodings have been fully borne out.[32]

Colours

The club played in blue and white, photographic evidence suggesting the white was a yoke on the shirts.

Notable players

References

  1. ^ "Football at the County Ground". Birmingham Post: 7. 19 September 1890.
  2. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Mail: 2. 14 September 1887.
  3. ^ "Notes on sport". Birmingham Post: 7. 19 August 1889.
  4. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Daily Mail: 4. 31 March 1891.
  5. ^ "Football in Warwickshire". Birmingham Post: 7. 30 March 1888.
  6. ^ Carr, Steve (2000). History of the Birmingham Senior Cup. West Bromwich: Grorty Dick.
  7. ^ "Warwick County v Excelsior". Birmingham Daily Post: 7. 17 October 1887.
  8. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Mail: 4. 26 October 1887.
  9. ^ "Warwick County v Excelsior". Birmingham Daily Post: 7. 24 October 1887.
  10. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Mail: 4. 10 October 1888.
  11. ^ "Sporting Notes". Birmingham Mail: 4. 31 October 1888.
  12. ^ "The Midland Counties League". Derby Mercury: 3. 24 April 1889.
  13. ^ "Sporting Items". Birmingham Post: 3. 1 February 1890.
  14. ^ "Birmingham & District Football Association". Birmingham Post: 5. 10 April 1890.
  15. ^ "Midland League Matches". Birmingham Post: 7. 30 September 1889.
  16. ^ "Warwick County v Lincoln City". Birmingham Post: 7. 7 April 1890.
  17. ^ "Warwickshire Cup Tie - Semi-Final". Birmingham Mail: 3. 26 April 1890.
  18. ^ "Warwickshire Cup Tie - Semi-Final". Birmingham Post: 5. 26 May 1890.
  19. ^ "Table Talk". Birmingham Mail: 2. 31 May 1890.
  20. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Post. 4. 7 April 1890.
  21. ^ "The Coming Football Season". Birmingham Mail: 2. 25 August 1890.
  22. ^ "Looking Back At Birmingham". Sunday Mercury: 10. 18 May 1941.
  23. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Mail: 2. 23 March 1891.
  24. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Daily Mail: 4. 31 March 1891.
  25. ^ "Warwick County v Walsall Town Swifts". Birmingham Post: 7. 23 February 1891.
  26. ^ "Walsall Town Swifts v Warwick County". Birmingham Post: 7. 9 February 1891.
  27. ^ "Birmingham And District Association". Birmingham Post: 7. 12 February 1891.
  28. ^ "Birmingham Cup Tie". Birmingham Post: 7. 17 March 1891.
  29. ^ "Football". The Staffordshire Sentinel: 2. 25 April 1891.
  30. ^ "Midland League". Manchester Courier: 3. 6 April 1891.
  31. ^ "Sporting Items". Birmingham Mail: 3. 27 April 1891.
  32. ^ "Football Notes". Birmingham Mail: 2. 6 April 1891.
  33. ^ "Midland League". Birmingham Daily Post: 7. 31 March 1891.

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