Two London clubs meet for the first time.

Two schoolboy clubs, not yet in the Football League, quietly began a London rivalry that would last more than a century.
Tottenham Hotspur and Fulham, both still outside the Football League, played their earliest known encounters in the mid-1890s. Spurs had been formed in 1882 by a group of schoolboys from Hotspur Cricket Club, while Fulham traced their origins to 1879 as St Andrew's Church Sunday School. These were modest, local affairs, but they planted the seed of a London rivalry that would endure for well over a century.



















