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Forest Green Rovers - Club History
Taken from “Something to Shout About, The History of Forest Green Rovers AFC” Tempus publishing Ltd ISBN 0-7524-4072-1, RRP £15-99.
Club History - Heroes
How do you compare a hero of yester-year with a hero today?
Well you can't, but without those who have worn the colours in previous decades, the club would not be where it is and what it is today.
Rovers started life in the lower leagues but have regularly had players in the County team (a bigger honour in years gone by than it is today).
Occasionally over the years, players have gone straight from Forest Green Rovers into the Football League.
A J Lampard, the Rovers goalkeeper, moved to Bournemouth and Boscombe in 1929 as the first recorded player to make the leap, and Kayode Odejayi is the most recent in 2003.
Other notable examples include David Dangerfield in 1969, (to Swindon and eventually Charlton Athletic), and “Jack Brock, another goalkeeper who made the first team grade in the Swindon team in 1936.
Looking back over what is now nearly 120 years of existence, the club have moved on with the help of players who can be looked on as heroes, helping to forge the Club’s history.
Please also look at the Legends section for more informtion.
1889-1899, The Brinkworth boys
Back in the first decade of the club’s existence, “socker” was becoming an established sport with the Football League having been formed in 1888. Forest Green was striving to become an established local force.
Players from the Brinkworth family took centre stage back then, with F Brinkworth and W Brinkworth named amongst the players in the earliest match report found to date, in February 1893. T Brinkworth was also regularly named in the team by the end of 1893 and by the end of the century T Brinkworth was club secretary.
The Brinkworth boys featured regularly over the first ten years of the club’s history and were noted in newspaper reports at the time as “hard players”. The first Forest Green Rovers heroes.
Forest Green Rovers AFC, 1898-99
The names of the players require more detective work. A young Walter Brown is bottom right, and it is safe to assume that the Brinkworth boys are there somewhere.
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