Middlesbrough football club was formed in 1876, and won the FA Amateur Cup in 1895 beating the Old Carthusians FC (old boys of Charterhouse School, Godalming) on 27th April at Headingly, Leeds, in front of a 4,000 crowd. Middlesbrough won the cup again on 23rd April 1898 at Crystal Palace, beating Uxbridge FC 2-0, watched by 1,500. The club turned professional in 1889, but reverted to amateur status in 1892. They turned professional permanently in 1899, after they were beaten in the First Round of ther Amateur Cup by Thornaby Utopians 0-1. After three seasons, they won promotion to the First Division, where they would remain for the next 22 years.
Above, a rare Middlesbrough football shirt, believed to be the oldest in existence, was sold for £16,000 at auction. The white woollen jersey with blue polka dot cuffs and button-up collar is estimated to date from between 1886 and 1890, when the team changed to a blue shirt. The item, complete with embroidered badge inscribed "M.F.C ERIMUS", (meaning "We shall be", was manufactured by E. Banks of Middlesbrough more than a century ago. It went under the hammer on March 8th as part of Grama Budd's Sports' Memorabilia auction. Below the kit 1878-85.
Graham Budd Auctions stated: "We would imagine that this is the oldest Middlesbrough shirt that survives and possibly the oldest example of a shirt from a league club still in one piece."We believe that it dates from between 1886 and 1890, when they changed to a blue shirt, before another change back to white up to 1899 which is when they finally turned professional permanently and adopted more or less the red that they are famed for today."
Into RED 1889 and Today.
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