A number of Premiership clubs, and a remarkable percentage of those who set up the Football League in the 1880s, grew out of Sunday schools - names as famous as Everton, Aston Villa and Fulham. Such teams grew out of the men’s sections of Sunday schools - Catholic, Methodist, Anglican - and started as a winter addition to the popularity of cricket in summer.

via BBC NEWS | Magazine | How Sunday school shaped Britain.

Interesting reading about what people remember of Sunday School from years ago - interesting too reading the comments - some  hostile, some with good memories.  It is good to see that the media isn’t always decrying the effect of religion upon society -  many great things have come into being because Christians made it happen.

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