[Football] Were palace singing abut being the oldest football club?

[halbpro]

Meanwhile, on the FA's website:
"The FA was formed there on 26 October 1863...
The clubs represented were: Barnes, War Office*, Crusaders, Forest (Leytonstone), No Names (Kilburn), Crystal Palace**, Blackheath, Kensington School, Perceval House (Blackheath), Surbiton, Blackheath Proprietory School and Charterhouse.

*Civil Service FC, who now play in the Southern Amateur League’s Senior Division One, are the only surviving club of the eleven who signed up to be FA members at that first meeting in 1863, when they were listed as the War Office

I'll tell you what though, that sure says something about the longevity and consistency of the Civil Service!

 

[Icy Gull]

It took a long long long time but the pendulum has eventually swung and the Albion are now better in every single department

 

[Whoislloydy]

In that case we were formed in 1897!

 

[bluenitsuj]

It is the year their current manager was born

 

[W3D]

Oldest stand I think it was

Is that the 'arf awake stand?

 

[Weststander]

They’re about to celebrate their 13th anniversary. Nothing to sing about ‘ers.