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On 12/11/2023 at 4:49 PM, iris123 said:

Plus wasn't there an English club that won something called the world championship? Was it Bishop Stortford v Juventus or something.... 

A 'Football World Championship' was also intermittently held between the English and Scottish FA Cup winners and latterly the league champions between 1876 and 1904. 

Although I'm not a fan of retrospectively changing the status of something that wasn't recognised as such at the time, the fact is this happened with the early modern Olympics and with first class and particularly test matches in cricket. The first 'Ashes' were nothing of the sort, nor even billed as test matches at the time AFAIK.

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On 12/11/2023 at 5:18 PM, iris123 said:

The Paris meetings in contrast were billed as world championships. As were maybe one or two others ?

There was even a world championship in the UK that Jack Parker won in 1931 was it ?

All so confusing. And i d think it shuld be left as it is and not revise things

As i posted elsewhere. If you look at my profile, there is an old poster advertising that World Champion Sprouts Elder was coming to Hamburg in 1930....

A couple of days ago saw a US newspaper report from 1933 and Elder was also mentioned as world champion. So I guess something he was fond of telling people

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