What sources were used in the main pod, and some interesting notes about satirical football programme cartoons

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In August 1914, Britain declared war on Germany. In September, the new season of the Football League kicked off.

What was the reaction, and why did 1914/15 continue, and what was its legacies?

SourcesAcademic work:Matthew Taylor, The Association Game: A History of British Football (New York, 2008).Brandon Luedtke, ‘Playing Fields and Battlefields: The football pitch, England and the First World War’, Britain and the World, 5, no. 1 (2012), pp. 96-115.Colin Veitch, ‘’Play up! Play up! And Win the War!’ Football, the nation and the First World War 1914-15’, Journal of Contemporary History, 20 (1985), pp. 363-378.Assaf Mond, ‘Chelsea Football Club and the fight for professional football in First World War London’, The London Journal, 41, no. 3 (2016), pp. 266-280.Richard Mills, ‘An Exception in War and Peace: Ipswich Town Football Club, c. 1907-1945’, Sport in History, 36, no. 2 (2016), pp. 214-241.

British Newspaper Archive:Portsmouth Evening NewsNewcastle JournalSheffield Daily TelegraphStar Green ‘unBarnsley IndependentSheffield Daily TelegraphDundee CourierYorkshire Evening PostLeeds MercurySheffield IndependentYorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer

General reference/web pages/wiki:englishfootballleaguetables.co.ukPFA website, https://www.thepfa.com/news/2018/11/11/the-story-of-the-footballers-battalion Jon Spurling, ‘How Man United and Liverpool fixed a match, helping Arsenal and Chelsea – but not Spurs’, FourFourTwo website (20 March 2015), [https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/how-man-united-and-liverpool-fixed-match-helping-arsenal-and-chelsea-not-spurs]‘How Arsenal were voted into the top flight over Tottenham in 1919’, Sky Sports (November 2018), https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11661/11564691/how-arsenal-were-voted-into-the-top-flight-over-tottenham-in-1919 Leeds United, Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leeds_United_F.C.#1920%E2%80%931960:_Early_years