484:. The Dragons dominated the second half, had what spectators thought was a good claim to a goal disallowed, and lost to a freak goal in the 83rd minute after Harry Stansbie slipped in heavy snow while trying to clear the ball, and Albion's Woodhall, following up, put in a high shot that most spectators thought had gone over the bar, but which was awarded as a goal. On the referee accepting the Albion claim, the Albion umpire "danced about the field in the most frantic manner". The Dragons put in a protest which the FA dismissed "with such haste...that precludes a thorough sifting of the matter." In a sign of potential problems, however, the club's AGM heard that the club had incurred "very heavy expenses", although for the moment "the balance sheet showed an account on the right side".
407:, son of the owner of the Cape Hill brewery, to move from the north to the west of Birmingham; the connection came via goalkeeper Harry Stansbie, who was a cellarman at the brewery. Mitchell became the club president and arranged for the club to take over the facilities of the brewery team (which had never entered any competition of note), in particular the athletics stadium at the brewery which was being re-built, the club changing its name in his honour. It is likely that Mitchell had been funding the team in the preceding years, as in 1882 the Birmingham FA took action against St George's for playing Green and Hodgetts, both of whom had been paid for playing for
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short lived outfits. St. Georges moved to a ground at
Fentham Road at the end of 1877, near the junction with Birchfield Road, and was notable for sloping downhill from the spectator entrance end; it was also known as "the Basin" from its tendency to flood. In the days before goal-nets, the lower goal was backed by boards. When St. Georges departed Fentham Road, sister club Excelsior moved in, and after their demise following mass departures to Villa and Mitchell St. Georges, Aston Victoria became Fentham Road occupiers in the 1890s.
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George's second in the table, but the club slipped back after a run of four defeats and a draw in five games March and April. The club agreed with
Walsall Town Swifts, its opponents in both the final game of the season and in the Staffordshire Cup Final, to have the final stand as a match for the Alliance as well. Played at the Wednesbury Oval in front of 4,000 spectators, the Dragons came from 3–2 down at half-time to win 5–3 and secure their final trophy.
548:. The Combination however disbanded after a season because of a lack of proper central organization in arranging fixtures. Each of the 20 clubs was to arrange 16 fixtures, in order to leave dates free for FA and local cup matches, but, by April, many teams had failed to reach the target and the Combination fizzled out. The Dragons had played the required games, with a record of 6 wins, 6 draws, and 4 defeats, the highlight being a 10-1 win over
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friendlies against their closest rivals. There was some compensation in that those that did attend did so with "boisterous enthusiasm" and the local media boasting the crowd to be the loudest in football however the same media also warned that the lack of income from spectators could leave the club "in a bad position".
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721:. The only club not to join was St George's. With significant debts, limited financial backing, ground owned by a third party, and no substantial public support, the club did not apply to join the League, and disbanded. One of the last actions of the club was to sue former player Harry Davies, who had moved to
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William Stainsbie also resigned and was replaced by a Mr Hobson, who forgot to register one player (Matthews) and forgot to send the registration of another player (McGuffie) to the Alliance the required seven days before the start of the season, with the result that,
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signing for Aston Villa, news of which broke in
February, which led to Devey being abused by the home support - the Dragons refused to play him in the final Alliance matches. Devey was absent for the club's loss in the semi-final of the Staffordshire Cup to Aston Villa, and the club played the match
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December 1875. Aston Park became available to the public for recreation, and this led to several new clubs being founded in the district and by 1877, around twenty clubs shared the footballing areas. St. Georges competed for space with Westminsters, Harold, Florence, Forward, Excelsior and other
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Nevertheless, the club was not invited to the new League; William McGregor, Aston Villa secretary, decreeing that each town could only send one club to the League, thereby excluding the
Dragons. Even though the club was technically based in Smethwick rather than Aston or Birmingham, the club was
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legalized professionalism in 1885, St George's faced the same problems as other teams in the Aston area, namely being able to retain players when Villa, having been illegally professional over previous seasons and having considerable financial backing, were now able openly to attract players from
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The depleted side finished bottom of the
Alliance, four points adrift of Walsall. The club conceded 29 goals in its final 5 away matches. A measure of the lack of support the club had is shown by the away derby at Small Heath attracting 3,000 spectators, but the home game two months later only
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on 4 January 1890. The club won 5–3, but the
Alliance ordered the match to be replayed, on the basis that the referee had not played the full 90 minutes. St George's refused to replay the fixture, so the Alliance annulled the result and awarded 2 points to Albion. The result would have put St
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One other problem for the club was that on-pitch violence in matches with Aston Villa had been so prevalent that the clubs had agreed never to meet again; when the clubs were forced to meet at Cape Hill in the
Birmingham Senior Cup on 8 February 1890, the attendance (variously given as 8,500 or
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Football League clubs, not helped by the club having increased ticket prices to cope with the increased expenditure, and, with League clubs having their calendars tied up almost exclusively in playing other League clubs, St George's had lost access to lucrative
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The Cape Hill ground was ready for 1886–87, and considered one of the finest pitches in the country, its disadvantage being a lack of suitable stands. The club was unlucky in the FA Cup and the Birmingham Senior Cup, being drawn against West Bromwich Albion, by now one of the top sides in the
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The club's first colours were black shirts with a red dragon; these were changed in the early 1880s to white shirts, with a black Maltese cross badge, and black shorts. For the first match at the Bellefield ground, in the 1885–86 season, the club adopted maroon and pale blue striped jerseys.
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To soften the blow, the brewery allowed free use of the ground at Cape Hill, and both Henry Mitchell Sr and Jr would contribute £50 each per year. However the club "literally had no money" and without the brewery support it was unable to compete with the professional clubs of the Alliance.
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5–2. The club's ill-luck in the FA Cup with West Bromwich Albion continued; in the second round tie with the Albion, after the Dragons dominated the early part of the game, McGuffie was forced to leave the field after being elbowed in the face by Siddons, and the club lost 3–0.
567:, who (along with the other of the bottom four teams) had to seek re-election to the League; the bottom four teams were all allowed to vote in the election, which resulted in them all "vot themselves in again" - 6 of the 12 ballots were simply to return the bottom four.
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for those clubs excluded from it, Harry Mitchell becoming the Combination's president. At the start of the season the club also removed the "Mitchells" from its name, "because of the Limited Liability Act, it is said"; the club was afterwards habitually known as
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Even though the club was pushing for the Alliance title towards the end of the season - in mid-March, the Dragons were second in the table, seven points behind Stoke, but with three games in hand - the club's crowds were poor. The crowd for the home game with
426:. The advantage of the move was that the club was less susceptible to losing players to Villa, and the brewery could employ players in sinecure jobs to enable them to play for the club as professionals; however, the club was now geographically close to
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There was also controversy in the FA Cup, the club reaching the first round and being given the opportunity to gain some revenge on Notts County. In a replay, County won 6–2, but St George's protested on the basis that a County player
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Despite a lack of silverware, by 1888 the club had a strong reputation, the Birmingham Daily Post in May 1888 declaring the club to be one of the four best teams in the Midlands (the others being Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion, and
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367:, holding the Lancashire side to a 2–2 draw at Fentham Road in October 1884. 1884–85 proved the club's best season yet, as the club beat the Albion again in the Birmingham Senior Cup, and reached the third round of the
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in an attempt to widen the supporter base. The club had high hopes for the combination season, having retained the players from 1887–88, and recruiting several new players, including Billy Siddons and recruits from
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355:. The winning goal came when Albion goalkeeper Roberts caught a shot from Denny Hodgetts, but Tommy Green charged him and the ball through the goalposts by several yards. Albion signed Green shortly afterwards.
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No player received an international cap while playing for the Dragons, but Davies and Devey both represented the Football Alliance in a representative game against the Football League in April 1891, at
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In 1888, Harry Mitchell ordered a new set of white shirts with black collars, with the badge replaced by a depiction of St George slaying the dragon, and a set of the colours reversed for a change kit.
351:. Albion were favourites for the game, being the defending champions, and having reached the semi-finals of the Birmingham Senior Cup; however the Dragons won 2–1 in front of 5,500 spectators at the
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At the end of the season, the other eleven clubs of the Alliance were accepted into the Football League, three of them directly into the First Division and eight (with other clubs) forming the first
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on 5 September 1891, at Walsall Town Swifts, the club fielded both players when neither was eligible. Although the Dragons won 3–1, they were deducted the two points gained, and fined £5.
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In Devey and Hadley, the Dragons had lost their leading scorer and regular goalkeeper respectively, and the other players were all first-choice starters.
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833:- twice FA Cup finalist with West Bromwich Albion, also amongst Aston Villa's first League players and scorer of their first League goal
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Devey had scored 17 and 16 goals in the club's first two Alliance seasons. In the club's final season, no player scored more than 7
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suggested that the Dragons be invited to join, the club missed out, which, in the longer term, proved to be the club's death knell.
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other local clubs; this problem was exacerbated by the FA Cup rules on residency, meaning St George's were competing with
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for the first game of the season at Walsall, the return at Cape Hill a fortnight later was watched by 1,000.
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and Birmingham Senior Cup at the first time of asking. In the Senior Cup, the club lost to
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attracted "exceptionally few" spectators, just 800 watched the penultimate home game with
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1831:"West Bromwich Albion v Birmingham St George's".
1601:"West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Mitchell St George's".
1496:"West Bromwich Albion 1-0 Mitchell St George's".
1278:Horton, Robin (November 2023). "Dragon slaying".
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1391:"St George's, Birmingham v Preston North End".
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1438:History of the Lancashire Football Association
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305:Birmingham & District Football Association
1556:"Derby County Charity Cup - Seni-Final Tie".
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1348:History of the Birmingham Senior Cup, Part 1
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2030:"Burton Swifts v Birmingham St George's".
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449:Formal merger of St George's and Mitchells
1586:"Derby County 1-2 Mitchell St George's".
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1976:"Birmingham St George's AGM".
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1711:"A rival football league".
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1816:"Protest against Notts".
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476:Misfortune in the FA Cup
2191:, 12 October 1887, p. 4
2173:Bradbury, Mike (2021).
2130:Bradbury, Mike (2013).
2075:"The Football League".
2015:Blakeman, Mick (2012).
2004:: 7. 18 September 1891.
1818:Nottingham Evening Post
1698:Nottingham Evening Post
1696:"Sports and pastimes".
1681:"The Football League".
1470:: 2. 22 September 1886.
1361:Matthews, Tony (1987).
1331:Bradbury, Mike (2010).
957:Quarter-final (last 6)
843:Wolverhampton Wanderers
636:Brewery ceasing support
500:Wolverhampton Wanderers
488:Birmingham St George's
466:Wolverhampton Wanderers
377:Wednesbury Old Athletic
285:Mitchells & Butlers
267:in 1886 under the name
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1940:: 8. 11 February 1891.
1880:: 2. 16 February 1891.
1865:: 7. 16 February 1891.
1850:: 3. 14 February 1891.
1745:: 5. 18 November 1889.
1683:Staffordshire Sentinel
1590:: 3. 22 November 1886.
1122:Birmingham Charity Cup
541:Birmingham St George's
455:Mitchell's St George's
255:. The club started as
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2218:Birmingham Daily Post
2216:"League v Alliance".
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2153:: 7. 16 October 1885.
2132:Birth of the Saddlers
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2034:: 7. 8 February 1892.
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1395:: 6. 13 October 1884.
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1320:: 1. 27 October 1900.
1305:: 7. 12 January 1885.
1303:Birmingham Daily Post
879:Birmingham Senior Cup
434:engineering company.
317:Birmingham Senior Cup
2205:: 4. 5 January 1891.
2094:: 8. 7 October 1892.
1646:: 2. 31 August 1888.
1530:: 4. 31 August 1887.
1485:: 6. 17 August 1886.
1346:Carr, Steve (2000).
552:on 12 January 1889.
445:the following year.
428:West Bromwich Albion
398:Birmingham Excelsior
389:Football Association
383:Mitchell St George's
347:in the final of the
345:West Bromwich Albion
269:Mitchell St George's
2220:: 7. 21 April 1891.
1910:: 4. 30 March 1891.
1895:: 4. 30 March 1891.
1622:When Saturday Comes
1560:: 3. 28 April 1888.
1455:: 6. 3 August 1886.
1280:When Saturday Comes
1265:First round proper
1226:First round proper
1222:Second round proper
1145:First round proper
482:Aston Lower Grounds
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2201:"Football Notes".
2045:"Football Notes".
1921:"Sporting Items".
1906:"Football Notes".
1891:"Football Notes".
1876:"Football Notes".
1790:. 18 January 1890.
1771:"Notes on Sport".
1756:"Notes on Sport".
1741:"Notes on Sport".
1726:"Notes on Sport".
1511:"Football Notes".
1466:"Football Notes".
1406:"Correspondence".
1380:: 4. 8 April 1889.
1376:"Football Notes".
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1180:First round proper
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2151:Lichfield Mercury
2147:Aston Shakespeare
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