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Lower Gornal Victoria
1892: The Advertiser, Saturday, October 29.
LOWER GORNAL VICTORIA v.s DUDLEY ST. GEORGE'S
Played at Gornal. The Vics won the toss and elected to play up-hill. The visitors kicked off but the Vics got possession, and a pass to the right wing ended in L. Beardsmore scoring the first goal for the home team a minute from the start. Re-starting, the visitors equalised, but soon after the Vics again took the lead. The Saints now took up the pressing, and the home goalkeeper in trying to clear, kicked the ball against one of his backs, and the ball, rebounding through, again made matters even. There was no further alteration in the score up to half-time, and the teams changed ends with the score two goals each. In the second half the Victoria scored again, and thus won a good game by three goals to two.
Not much known about this team that appeared in newspaper reports in the late 19th Century.
An example local newspaper report is transcribed opposite.
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Gornal Wanderers.
1909 - playing in Sedgley Friendly League
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Upper Gornal Wanderers
'Upper Gornal Wanderers' played in the Brierley Hill and District League in 1900, some (all?) games were played on the Sedgley Rovers Ground.
A team - Upper Gornal 'Athletic' were mentioned in 1905.
1909 November - Upper Gornal Albion played in the Sedgley and District League. Team line-up:- Davies; Mills; Nicholls; Pugh; Cox; Pugh; Allen; Hale; Pugh; Hughes; Hadley; Hill; Taylor;Hickman.
1909, Another team - 'Upper Gornal United' played against Dudley Port United,
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In the early part of the 20th century, several public houses in Gornal had their own football teams, much like they later hosted darts and domino teams.
In the early 20th Century, Church teams appeared such as Lower Gornal St. James' and Upper Gornal St. Peters.
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Arthur Marsh.
Arthur was born in Lower Gornal in 1947.
His league career started with Bolton Wanderers with 73 appearances between 1966-1971 as a central defender, he went on to to play for Rochdale and Darlington, after his retirement from football in 1975, he joined the Police Force, Arthur died in 2020 aged 72.
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