HONEST DODWORTH AND OTHER MINERS

Dodworth is known as a mining village, but no longer in operation. It is on the edge of the Pennines, located on the western edge of the Barnsley Coalfield.. It has the name locally of 'Honest Dodworth'. The story supposedly originated about a Dodworth miner walking home one night having had a drink too many, who decided for a bet that he would climb a lamp-post in the village. He placed his gold watch on the top of the lamp-post, but forgot about it when he climbed down. The next morning he returned sober to find his watch still there. He was so pleased he shouted 'Honest Dodworth', which it is thought still applies today.

Dodworth Miners Welfare Football Club is a footbhall club based in Dodworth near Barnsley in South Yorkshire. They are currently members of the Sheffield and Hallamshire Counth Premier Division and play at the Miners Welfare Ground, a mile or so off the M1. The badge below shows the "Davy Lamp", a symbol of the local coal mining industry, now obsolete. The stand a hope of greater things.

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There are plenty of clibs linked to the coal mining industry, one of many I have been to since moving into the Yorkshire "coalfield"  includes:

Of course it is not just Britain that has its roots in coal.......

Above is the 1900s typical mining structure in the Ruhr, source of the FC Schalke 04, nickname "Die Knappen" – from an old German word for "miners"– because the team drew so many of its players and supporters from the coalmine workers of Gelsenkirchen.

Ernst Kuzorra, perhaps Schalke’s most famous player and the man whose name appears in the club’s address, was a colliery worker before playing for the club full-time. 

The club was founded on 4 May 1904 as Westfalia Schalke by a group of high school students and first wore the colours red and yellow. The team was unable to gain admittance to the Western German Football Association and played in one of the "wild associations" of early German football. In 1912, after years of failed attempts to join the official league, they merged with the gymnastic club Schalker Turnverein 1877 in order to facilitate their entry. This arrangement held up until 1915, when SV Westfalia Schalke was re-established as an independent club. Clearly matters were affected by the War of course.The separation proved short-lived and the two came together again in 1919 as Turn- und Sportverein Schalke 1877. Relegation to the 2 Bundesliga was confirmed on 20 April 2021, as Schalke 04 lost 1–0 to Arminia Bielefeld, which led to riots by Schalke supporters, who objecyed also to the FIVE own goals scored by the club that season.

Times have changed and as of 2014, the headline sponsors of Schalke 04 are the China-based electronics manufacturer Hisense and the Russia-based hydrocarbon giant Gazprom. Additional sponsors include a handful of German companies and Spanish-based security insurance company Reale Serguros, China-based telecommunications company Huawei, cyber gambling and sports betting company bet-at-home.com, beverage giant Coca-Cola and the current manufacturer of Schalke's squad kits, England-based Umbro.