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.