I discovered a football club from my home town were founder members of the Football Association in 1863. I soon realised nobody knew anything about them... so I did some digging. Here's the story of Surbiton FC, one of the world's first football clubs: https://link.medium.com/eMId4Qf1D8 

A great image here of Surbiton at the time of the games. Most likely they were played on the fields shown here. https://twitter.com/kanedr/status/1290218334768619522?s=20

Thanks to @paulbrownUK for hosting this story on his Soccer Stories section of @Medium - it's the first time I've published on there, and he helped me work out how everything works. The channel archive is well worth a look.