Wigan Album

It appears that this photograph was taken at the rear of a church. If it was, as you surmise, Andrew, and it was taken at the beginning of the last century. Then quite a number of these lads' would have served in the first world war.

I wonder if this team was made up of people who had to work Saturday afternoons like Sheffield Wednesday, so they had to play there games on Wednesday afternoons when it was half day closing

Great photo is this Andrew, Mick, from my recolection, Sheffield Wednesday started life as a cricket club and THEY played on Wednesdays. No subs on this photo being sent on in the dying seconds of a match to disrupt the flow of the game. For me, subs shouldn't be allowed on after 85 minutes has gone.

The jerseys are very reminiscent of Bradford City's worn between 1909 and 1914 in claret and amber. They won the FA Cup in shirts like this in 1911, and I suspect that they were "in vogue" at the time, which could well date the picture to just a couple of years before World War I.

They did wear similar jerseys for the first few years of the 1920s but I think the lad's knickerbockers make this pre-War.

There are many examples around of catalogues of football equipment from the time, and they often quote things like "Bradford style" or "Aston Villa style".

My father used to play in the 1920s for a team called Wigan Wednesday they were all people who worked in shops etc and had Wednesday afternoon free maybe they played in the same laegue does anybody know anything about them and the Wednesday compatition