About the 'Foot-Ball Club' The very first football club in the world is often credited as being Sheffield FC, founded in 1857 but in actual fact, the world’s very first club dedicated to football, of any code, dates back to 1824, when John Hope established what he simply called ‘The Foot-Ball Club’ in a field just outside Edinburgh with no other contemporary football clubs known to have existed for at least another 20 years. John Hutchinson and Andy Mitchell have researched the definitive history of this ground breaking club, and show how it had an incredible influence on the long term development of football. Using archive material, they describe how the game was played, who the football players were and what motivated them. They have uncovered a fascinating picture of sports and society in the city of Edinburgh, the people who lived in it and their social networks. You can purchase Andy's book here: https://shorturl.at/lAOUX About Sports Management 101 Sports Management 101 is a podcast bringing you a range of content relating to Sports Management including finance, marketing, governance, events, leadership and much more. So whether you’re studying Sports Management, either as Undergraduate level, or postgraduate level – or you’re just interested in sport, this is the podcast for you. On the channel we post a range of content including interviews with individuals from within the sports industry, case studies of sports organisations and clubs and recaps and debriefs on some key topics within the study of Sport Management. About Dr Andrew Jenkin Andrew is a lecturer in Sports Management at the University of Stirling (staff profile: https://www.stir.ac.uk/people/1725473) and the head of Club Development Consultancy (www.clubdevelopment.co).