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Coach

After a distinguished 20 year playing career Spiksley became a famous international coach and talent scout. After initially freelancing in the London area he eventually took a role coaching for the Stockholm FA where he gained his first title as …

Crystal Palace 1861

Football historians agree that Crystal Palace’s claim to being the oldest league club in the world is unfounded!

In 2020 after completing our 1861 or 1905?  document we invited football historians to complete a survey,  indicating whether there were two separate Crystal Palace clubs …

GAINSBOROUGH TRINITY

After rising through the ranks of the local football teams in Gainsborough during the mid1880’s Fred Spiksley made his senior debut for Trinity against Notts Jardines on 19th March 1887. Despite a formidable goalscoring record for the Jubilee Swifts in the …

Fastest FA Cup Final Goal

On 18 April 1896 Fred Spiksley scored a goal that could be faster than Louis Saha’s goal for Everton in the 2009 final. The Manchester Guardian reporting that the goal was scored after “scarcely 20 seconds had passed”. Other newspaper …

First hat-trick against Scotland

Fred Spiksley became the first player to score a hat-trick against Scotland in 1893. Due to reporters at the time reporting incorrectly that Reynolds had scored England’s 5th goal in the famous 5-2 victory at Richmond, Spiksley’s achievement is not …

Spiksley Book

A Flawed Football Hero

by Mark Metcalf, RalphNicholson and CliveNicholson

Blurb

Born at a unique moment in the history of the beautiful game, Fred Spiksley was amongst a new wave of teenagers who, in 1885, could aspire to be a …