They may have sacrificed success for the pursuit of their values but Sheffield FC left the game with far greater, and largely untouchable, records
Pioneers
A series celebrating football’s extraordinary roots and 25 of the beautiful game’s earliest heroes, by These Football Times
Having vanished from all records by 30, in her short life, Emma Clarke would fight fiercely and proudly for the growth of women’s football
In the annals of history, beyond Messi, Ronaldo and Eusebio, only one man’s records will likely never be broken. That man is Fernando Peyroteo
They influenced Corinthians in Brazil and Real Madrid in Spain, and inflicted Manchester United’s biggest defeat: this is Corinthian FC
For a nation that later gave us Maradona and Messi and some of football’s greatest clubs, its roots are owed to a humble academic from Glasgow
Try as they may, in almost a century of football, nobody has been able to break Everton legend Dixie Dean’s most famous goalscoring record
Between breaking a crossbar in half and having the “Who ate all the pies?” chant directed at him, William Foulke was actually a pioneering goalkeeper