English Premier League
England
The Barclays English Premier League (EPL), considered as the best in the world.
Blackburn Rovers vs Blackburn Rovers FC
Official name Blackburn Rovers FC
City Blackburn
Founded 1875
Club colors Blue-White / White / White
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Sunderland
Official name Sunderland AFC
City Sunderland
Founded 1879
Club colors Red-White vertical striped / Black / Black
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Match scheduled:
Date: 28-12-2009
Time: 15:00 until 17:00
27-12-2009 on 20:03
Week 20 / Round 20 :: Barclays Premier League 2009/2010
City Sunderland
Founded 1879
Club colors Red-White vertical striped / Black / Black
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Match scheduled:
Date: 28-12-2009
Time: 15:00 until 17:00
27-12-2009 on 20:03
Week 20 / Round 20 :: Barclays Premier League 2009/2010
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The club Blackburn Rovers was the idea of John Lewis and Arthur Constantine during a seventeen-man meeting at the Leger Hotel, Blackburn on the 5 November 1875. The club's first secretary was Walter Duckworth, and Lewis was its first treasurer. Many of the initial members were wealthy and well-connected, and this helped the club survive and rise beyond the large number of other local teams around at the time. Blackburn has had a particular strong history of football, Rovers were not the town's only side in the 19th century; other rivals included Blackburn Olympic F.C. (1883 winners of the FA Cup) and Blackburn Park Road F.C., among others.
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Rovers finally won the F.A. Cup on 29 March 1884—the year Thomas Mitchell joined as manager—at the Kennington Oval with a 2–1 victory over the Scottish team Queen's Park F.C. Had it not been for this cup success the club would have folded leaving Blackburn Olympic the primary team in Blackburn. The same teams played the F.A. Cup final again the next season, with Blackburn Rovers again emerging victorious, with a 2–0 score. Rovers repeated this success yet again the next season, winning the final against West Bromwich Albion. For this three-in-a-row of F.A. Cup victories, the club was awarded a specially commissioned silver shield and given the unique privilege of displaying the club crest on its corner flags.
