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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.
World home of professional football