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  1. Darwen News

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    World home of professional football

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    Astonishing that the birthplace of professional football is not represented in the BNA.

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    The birthplace of professional football

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    Darwen is the birthplace of professional football. The local newspapers would be a wonderful resource for charting its development.

    See - The English Game, Julian Fellowes, Netflix

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    Town of 40,000. Major industrial and sporting contribution. First club to employ professionals. Origin of “cup fever’ as team of millworkers took on the Old Etonians.

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    Major large industrial town late 19th, early 20th century. Population 40,000. Home of the first football club to employ professional.

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