Preston North End v Aston Villa (1905) 

Preston north end goalkeeper Peter McBride was my great, great, great Grandad.

The last player out for Aston Villa is my great grandfather BILLY GARRATY. If you google his name you see info on him and his career with England,Villa,WBA,Leiceser and Lincoln Billy was man of the match in the 1905 final Villa v Newcastle and capped only once in 1903 v wales. I know for a fact he was picked to play in at least one other game for England but he was injured. In 1899-1900 he scored 27 league goals earning him a place in golden boot records. His 27 goals is still the second highest number of league goals for Villa wit only the great pongo waring ahead of him.

One thing which i love and still stands in football is the tradition with the shirts!

Wonderful images of a bygone era. A reminder that football began way before Sky TV.

I like how the crowd all wave when the camera is on them- we don't change much in 100 years...

I remember this day like yesterday. We really celebrated.

This was my first ever game

Preston's domination of the game was even a thing of the past then.....by about 16 years.

Villa won the FA cup that year!

In the days when the 11th of November was just another date.

ah, the good times

I remember that game 😌

I was in there, i remember...

VAR needed on the hole in the net!!!

Referee didn't check net before game started??

Only few years after the Jack the ripper era.

2 of big clubs then, now both is just average clubs. but Aston Villa is more a bit big than PNE because Aston Villa have plays in epl while PNE never had to play in epl

I was wondering if VAR was exist on that era ??!!!

We go on about goal line technology today but imagine what it was like in them days, holes in the net, the goalmouth like a swamp and very little assistance for the referee. They should remind people just how lucky they are today. Managers and players complain about goals not given and offsides all the time but they make as many mistakes as referees. The teams settle games of football, not the officials. You win, you lose and managers especially should take responsibility a lot more.

Have you noticed that the players did not have numbers on the shirts or shorts? I think at the time players could be identified by their caps (they used different ones) or by their socks.

Has the goalkeeper got the same shirt as the outfield players?

Golaço.

they all have huge beer guts

what a goalkeeper... xD

North End hold the record FA Cup score at 36 nil. Apparently lt could have been more but the goals had no nets. Probably had only one football. Was this Deepdale.

lol, wonder how much Dickie Bond would be worth today? 20million?

Preston won this game 2-0

VAR 1905

Dumpdale still looks pretty much the same now.

I thought World War was on ?? 1914-1918.

ahahahaahaha have a look in the shorts!!!