A contemporary press cutting describes Villa as "the Blacks" in an FA Cup tie with Notts County on 12 February 1881. For their game against Heart of Midlothian on New Years' Day 1881 Villa wore navy and white hooped jerseys and there is evidence that these colours were worn at least until January 1884. Lee Gauntlett has found a reference in the club handbook from 1990-91 that states, "Villa wore new maroon jerseys with a lion rampant emblazoned across their chests" in the 1880-81 season. We had a most awful whacking and the lion was relegated to the club notepaper and flags." We went on the field but the gorgeous lion got us down.
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Charles S Johnstone, an influential player, interviewed late in life said, "Our lion had no chance with the washing lady! He became pale and anaemic so Mac (William McGregor) was deputed to send to Scotland for thirteen lions on shields proper, which could be attached and detached at will.When they were duly attached you could hardly see the man for the lion - we were each as self-conscious as a bride in a wedding dress. The following season jerseys replaced the original shirts but the lion motif faded badly in the laundry. William McGregor actually went to Scotland to purchase the lion motifs and they were subsequently sewn on by the sister of the club secretary (ref: The Aston Villa Chronicles). In 1878 they purchased a set of black shirts emblazoned with the Scottish lion rampant. hoops - vertical stripes did not appear until the 1880s). The team's first colours were described as "scarlet and royal blue stripes" (i.e.
It was at McGregor’s instigation that the Football League was formed in 1888 when the game threatened to fall into disrepute and collapse owing to fixtures not being kept to. A natural organiser and businessman, he was soon a vice-president of the club, and became Chairman at the time of Villa’s first organisationally traumatic period between 18, but which culminated in the club winning the FA Cup for the first time. The age of eight and a couple of years after Aston Villa was formed he He had seen his first football match in Scotland at McGregor was a teetotaler and an evangelist Methodist who wanted to do something to help the city.
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Role in the club and the professional game. Particular, businessman, William McGregor, played an enormously influential Strong ties with the large Scottish community who wereĭrawn to the city’s burgeoning engineering industry.
After four of their number watched a game of rugby the members decided that the association rules were more to their taste. Club was formed by members of the cricket team attached to the Aston Villa Wesleyan Methodist Chapel in Birmingham who wanted to establish a winter activity.
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