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The 1890–91 season was the tenth season of competitive association football played by Small Heath Football Club, an English football club based in the Small Heath district of Birmingham, and their second season in the Football Alliance. They finished in tenth position in the twelve-team league for the second consecutive year. Seven wins, two draws and thirteen defeats gave them sixteen points, one point fewer than in 1889–90. The team scored 58 goals in Alliance competition, but conceded 66, at an average of three goals per match. Small Heath entered the 1890–91 FA Cup at the first qualifying round stage, but were disqualified from the competition after winning their second qualifying round match for fielding an unregistered player.〔Matthews (1995), p. 140.〕 In local competitions, they were eliminated by West Bromwich Albion in the first round of the Birmingham Senior Cup and by Aston Villa in the semi-final of the Birmingham Charity Cup. Small Heath also played several friendly matches during the season. Small Heath used twenty-two different players in nationally organised competitive matches during the season and had eight different goalscorers. Five players – the full-back pairing of Tom Bayley and Fred Speller and forwards Jack Hallam, Fred Wheldon and captain Will Devey – were ever-present over the 24-match season. The top scorer in the Alliance was centre-forward Charlie Short with 16 goals; if the FA Cup is included, Short and Devey each scored 17. ==Background== Small Heath finished tenth in the inaugural season of the Football Alliance, and was re-elected for 1890–91. Among regular first-team players to leave the club were Walter Gittins, Eddy Stanley, and Chris Charsley. Gittins was Fred Speller's full-back partner for most of the previous season, and moved on to Stafford Rangers.〔Matthews (1995), pp. 90, 140.〕 Stanley had been with the club for nine years before injury forced his retirement. During that time he played in 22 FA Cup matches, scoring 14 times, contributed two goals and an assist as Small Heath won their first trophy, the Walsall Cup in 1883, and scored 5 goals from 13 games in the first Football Alliance campaign.〔Matthews (1995), pp. 140, 231. 〕 Goalkeeper Charsley, a serving police officer, announced his retirement. In June, he was honoured with a dinner at which he was presented with a £40 collection and a piano.〔Notes on Sport. Scraps. ''Birmingham Daily Post''. p. 5. 16 June 1890.〕 The ''Birmingham Daily Post'' suggested the club "were hardly likely ever to find so good a man again".〔Notes on Sport. ''Birmingham Daily Post''. p. 5. 25 August 1890.〕 New arrivals included forward Charlie Short, who had played one match for Small Heath in March before finishing the season with Unity Gas,〔Matthews (1995), pp. 123, 140.〕 full-back Tom Bayley from Walsall Town Swifts,〔Matthews (1995), p. 71.〕 and goalkeeper Charles Partridge from Wednesbury Old Athletic.〔Matthews (1995), p. 116.〕 The club's intended new kit – a plain royal blue shirt and stockings with white knickerbockers – failed to arrive by the start of the season, so the team began the new campaign in the previous year's black shirts with an amber collar, white knickerbockers and black stockings, which had proved difficult to see for players and spectators alike. When the new kit arrived ahead of the match against Sunderland Albion in mid-September, the suppliers had sent only nine sets, so they had to play one more game in the old colours.〔(Birmingham City ). Historical Football Kits. Retrieved 17 July 2013.〕 Will Devey was captain.〔 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「1890–91 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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