Stainforth Football Club

1914

⚽️ This striking team photograph of Stainforth Football Club, taken during the 1913–14 season, captures a proud moment in the sporting life of this Yorkshire mining town just before the Great War erupted.

👕 Dressed in dark kits with high socks and muddy boots, the players stand and sit with stoic pride—some smiling, others serious. The presence of a young child perched on a player’s knee and the men in flat caps and heavy coats watching from the sidelines adds a deeply communal feel to the image. Football was not just a pastime—it was a cornerstone of identity, camaraderie, and resilience in towns like Stainforth.

📷 Frozen in time just months before World War I would change the lives of so many, this image reminds us how sport bound people together, offering joy and unity amid growing uncertainty.

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