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The 1889–90 season was the ninth season of competitive association football played by Small Heath F.C., an English football club based in the Small Heath district of Birmingham. They competed in the inaugural season of the Football Alliance. They finished in tenth position in the twelve-team league with six wins, five draws and eleven defeats, which gave them seventeen points. The team scored 44 goals in Alliance competition but conceded 67. Small Heath entered the 1889–90 FA Cup at the second qualifying round stage. They progressed through three qualifying rounds and one round proper, eventually losing in the second round proper (last 16) to Football League club Wolverhampton Wanderers. In local competition, they were eliminated by West Bromwich Albion in the second round of the Birmingham Cup, and drew with Warwick County in the final of the Warwickshire Cup. Small Heath also played several friendly matches during the season. Small Heath used twenty-three different players in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and had thirteen different goalscorers. Walter Gittins missed just one match over the season; his full-back partner Fred Speller missed two. The top scorer was centre-forward and captain Will Devey with 27 goals, of which 18 were scored in league competition. ==Background== In the 1888–89 season, which coincided with the Small Heath club's first year as a limited company, it made enough profit to pay shareholders a dividend of .〔Matthews (1995), p. 9.〕 The team played in the Combination, a league established to provide regular competitive football for those clubs not invited to join the newly formed Football League. The Combination was not well organised, and not all teams completed their required 16 fixtures; Small Heath achieved 11.〔Shury, Alan & Landamore, Brian (2005). ''The Definitive Newton Heath F.C.''. Nottingham: SoccerData. p. 11. ISBN 1-899468-16-1.〕 A proposal that the Football League be expanded to 24 teams was rejected, so a new league, to be known as the Football Alliance, was formed to cater for those excluded. Small Heath was one of the 12 clubs accepted.〔'Cover-point'. Cricket & Football Notes. ''Sheffield & Rotherham Independent''. p. 8. 14 May 1889. "The rejected applicants for admission to the Football League did not lose much time in making other arrangements, which have resulted in the formation of another league under the title of the Football Alliance. This entirely destroys the badly managed Football Combination of last season, and also seriously interferes with the proposed organisation of the Northern and Midland Counties Leagues."〕 Small Heath retained most of the previous season's regular players, despite talk of "two or three desertions that will be serious to their prospects if rumour should turn out to be correct".〔Notes on Sport. ''Birmingham Daily Post''. p. 7. 26 August 1889.〕 Reports linking full-back Fred Speller with Warwick County left the ''Birmingham Daily Post'' "wondering at footballers' ingratitude."〔Notes on Sport. ''Birmingham Daily Post''. p. 7. 19 August 1889.〕 One major departure was goalscoring winger Ted Hill, who was unwilling to commit to regular competitive football.〔Matthews (1995), p. 98.〕 New arrivals included Fred Heath, "a fast runner and a good dribbler () centres while running at full speed", who was viewed as the replacement for Ted Hill,〔Notes on Sport. ''Birmingham Daily Post''. p. 5. 9 September 1889.〕 fellow forward Billy Pratt, full-back Walter Gittins and backup goalkeeper Francis Banks.〔Matthews (1995), pp. 70, 90, 118.〕 Devey was appointed captain, though the ''Post'' suggested his tendency to argue with teammates made him a less than ideal candidate for the role.〔Notes on Sport. ''Birmingham Daily Post''. p. 5. 18 November 1889.〕 The team played in black shirts with an amber collar, white knickerbockers and black stockings.〔(Birmingham City ). Historical Football Kits. Retrieved 17 July 2013.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1889–90 Small Heath F.C. season」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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