ALL FOOTBALL FANS CLAIM A GREAT heritage for their clubs, but mine has a rich history and romantic beginnings. 150 years ago this year, on 21 November 1874, four men from the Wesleyan chapel adult bible class met in the cold under a gas-lit lamp on Heathfield Road, Birmingham, and founded Aston Villa.
Those four men — Jack Hughes, Walter Price, George Matthews and William Scattergood — were cricketers who wanted to keep their team together during the winter months. They could not have imagined what would follow. An itinerant team