Two clubs are born within a year of each other.

A rector's daughter and a Sunday school; two church teams with no idea they were founding football royalty.
Fulham were founded in 1879 as St Andrew's Church Sunday School, making them the oldest club in London. A year later, in 1880, Manchester City came into being as St. Mark's (West Gorton), a church team formed by the rector's daughter, Anna Connell, partly to combat local gang culture. Neither could have imagined what lay ahead.















