May 31st 1893 The Football League decided to increase the size of the Second Division from 12 to 16 clubs for the start of the season 1893/94. Newcastle United and Rotherham Town were elected at the League AGM but it was decided to fill the other two places by advertising for clubs. Applications were received from Doncaster Rovers, Liverpool, Loughborough, Middlesbrough Ironopolis and Woolwich Arsenal. On May 31stin 1893, the Football League announced that they had offered Liverpool and Arsenal the remaining two places. For Arsenal, it was perhaps a brave decision. Apart from the FA Cup, their 1892/3 fixture list consisted entirely of friendlies and since they became the first southern side to join the Football League ,every other club in the division would be hit with extra travelling costs.
In 1899, a team known as Rotherham Casuals and boys from Rotherham Grammar School combined to form Rotherham F.C. On becoming a limited company in 1904, a new name of Rotherham Athletic was adopted, and a year later they changed their name again, to Rotherham Town, which had been the name of a former football league club from the town.
In 1903 the new club joined the Midland League where they remained until 1925, when they merged with their Third Division North neighbours Rotherham County (founded in 1877) to form Rotherham United.
The club's colours were initially yellow and black, but changed to the red and white around 1930. Rotherham United now play their home games at New York Stadium (named after the area in Rotherham), a modern 12,004 capacity all-seater stadium, having previously played at their original home, Millmoor, since its foundation for 101 years. Below the AESSEAL STADIUM. The company manufactures mechanical seals, bearing protectors and other mechanical bits and bobs.
Joining the Football League in 1925, Rotherham spent the first 25 years of their time in the Third Division North, the lowest level of the Football League, finally gaining promotion to the Second Division at the end of the 1950–51 season.
Rotherham United Football Club is nicknamed The Millers, now playing in League One, the third tier of the EFL. In the 2021-22 season The Millers finished 23rd in the Championship.
31st May 1961 Football may be the major attraction to Wembley but over the years the "national" stadium has hosted some weird and wonderful events, perhaps the most weird in 1961? A 150-foot tower was built at one end of the ground and then on May 31st, for one session and on June 1st, two sessions, some 50 tons of ice was crushed into artificial snow each session and spread to a depth of 6 inches on the bottom slope of the tower. And then the paying spectators watched ski-jumping. Seems sensible??
In his time at Liverpool, Neil 'Razor' Ruddock didn't get on terribly well with Manchester United's Eric Cantona - but in later years he was to have 15,000 reasons to thank him. Cantona scored the winning goal for United against Liverpool in the 1996 May FA Cup Final and exchanged shirts with Liverpool captain John Barnes after the match. Disappointed by the result Barnes threw the number 7 shirt on the dressing room floor and Ruddock - who hadn't played in the match or been a sub - asked to keep it to make up for the disappointment of not taking part in the Wembley final. He did keep it - well until May 2013 when he sold it at auction - for £15,000-Razor sharp deal that.
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