Where was I yesterday? My other half and I went to Sheffield, to a car dealership searching for an “electric car”. I’m not going to launch into the details about that, but safe to say, the very nice salesman, Jacob, did a good selling us a car and he won the bonus no doubt…worth several pounds out of our bank account. As you do, I asked if he lived locally and he came up with Parramore, an interesting name and then the next question was always going to be....which team did he support? Needless to say, it was the dealership's noisy neighbours, Sheffield Wednesday. United was on the other side of the city.
Enough of that!! but the name Parramore rattled my cage and the link led me to a memory of the Sheffield and Hallamshire County FA Junior Cup Final on April 8th 2015. This was decided on the night, as an ample crowd of a few hundred, at the Memorial Ground, Penistone Church FC., my local. Jacob agreed.
Handsworth Parramore U21s became the first U21 side to win the coveted JUNIOR trophy, beating the holders, an old stagers' team from Sheffield FC , the club's Over 35s.
Note this is the Sheffield Club not United or Wednesday.
Remember that Sheffield FC claims to be one of (if not the) oldest club. The
report of the game, on the night, had not made the Sheffield FC website by 9.30am, the following day, whereas
Handsworth had their report published early doors. Well done to
them. Here's a blog I did before about Handsworth.
http://www.pitchero.com/clubs/handsworthfc/s/match-centre-126072/0-2889993/
That evening, the Memorial Ground pitch was in good nick, although drying
out, so it did have a few bobbles, but there was plenty of grass. The referee
and assistants had a number of issues to deal with, including some remarkably
gutteral expletives from the dug outs! RESPECT!!
The game was frantic, the old 'uns ran out of steam in the
last 15 minutes and the U21s deserved their victory, swayed in their favour by
the inclusion of Sheldon, a tall centre forward, who had a hand in both goals. All
went well, although one of the Parramore supporters, a very tall man, insisted
on standing by the rail in front of the only seated area on the ground, by a
sign that said "Please Do Not Stand in Front of the Seated Area". He
was too big to be asked to move politely! Indeed a Sheffield Official, in a
blazer with a nice badge, did rock up and stand with the group half way through the
second half but said nothing and he, being "wide", blocked our view too!
Parramore Sports was established in 1936 as the works team of ironfounders, F. Parramore & Sons. They played in local works' leagues for a large part of their history before moving into the Sheffield and Hallamshire County Senior League in 1985. They flitted between the Premier Division and Division 1 of the S&HCSL for nearly two decades before leaving for the Central Midlands League (CMFL) in 2008, playing at the Don Valley Stadium.
They were promoted to the Supreme Division of the CMFL after their first season in the competition, before changing name to Sheffield Parramore in 2010. Parramore won the CMFL Supreme Division title in 2011, earning promotion to the Northern Counties East League (NCEL). Prior to the start of their first NCEL season, Parramore manager Peter Whitehead bought Worksop Town's disused, Sandy Lane ground and moved the club to the town, renaming them Worksop Parramore.
(parramore meaning unsure?? although "parramour" does come from the French "par amor" referring to an "amorous lover"! possibly secret!!!) Some times the second "r" is dropped. Sometimes the "e" is too.
The club rose through the English Football League system, when they won promotion from NCEL Division 1 in their first season, earning a place in the FA Vase for the 2012–13 season. A year later they entered the FA Cup for the first time.
In 2014 the Worksop Parramore club merged with Handsworth FC to form Handsworth Parramore FC, so the club in the badge (below) dissolved. The new club took Worksop Parramore's place in the Premier Division of the Northern Counties East League. In their debut season, the club won the League Cup, beating Cleethorpes Town 4–3 in the final, coming back from 3–1 down with six minutes remaining. In June 2019, the club was renamed Handsworth Football Club-no Parramore!
The new club entered step 5 of the English Football League, for the start of the 2014–15 season, remaining at Sandy Lane.
A soccer stadium, Exploria, was built in Parramore, along West Church Street between Glenn Lane and Terry Avenue in Orlando, Florida, USA.
AND after all that confusion here's an own goal to cheer you up...Some own goals are farcical and some are tragic and one of the tragic ones came on 1st July 2015 at the Women's World Cup Finals played in Canada. In the 92nd minute of the semi-final between England and Japan England's Laura Bassett scored an own-goal which gave holders Japan a place in the final. To be fair though she had the courage (and skill) to make the interception and that ball could have gone anywhere - but sadly it went into the net..... https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2w98jm
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