football - Burngreave Messenger

Sheffield United signed shirt auction in support of Aden Steelers

19th July 2021

Aden Steelers FC are putting up TWO Sheffield United Premier League season one shirts for auction to support fundraising of their grassroots football club and for the Hallam FM Cash For Kids sports challenge. The [Read more]

Learning from football

19th October 2020

Story by Patrick Moran Not only does Christian Vernon work with young people at risk of exclusion from school, he also volunteers his time to run a football team for young people at the weekends. [Read more]

Woodbourn Stadium saved

17th December 2018

Story by Yasar Mohamed Mohamed Ali and I are members of Burngreave FC. We attended the November full council meeting to present our petition which had 662 signatures. It was the first time we had [Read more]

I belong to Burngreave: Sahra Abdi

17th September 2018

Story by Farhaan Warsame | Photo by Sahra Abdi Sahra Abdi is the manager of a local football team (Future Football Stars of Burngreave). Sahra came from Somalia in 1992 at the age of seven [Read more]

Musa Sami Musa receiving the award for most improved player in the under 10s

Steelers Super Season

6th August 2018

Story and photo by Saleh Alnoud Aden Steelers football club rounded off a successful season with their awards night, held at Firth Park School on June 19th. Presentations were made to over 120 kids aged [Read more]

Tom Wharton Update

18th June 2018

In our last issue we covered the efforts by Sheffield Wednesday supporters to raise money for a headstone to the clubs first ‘superfan’ who passed away in 1933 and is buried in Wardsend Cemetery. We [Read more]

Aden Steelers celebrate their cup final win.

Aden Steelers Cup Final win after nail biting end

2nd May 2018

Story by Gamal Abdulla | Photo by Anise Ahmed Aden Steelers U12 played the Sheffield United U12 at Greasborough Junior club in a tense final last Sunday (April 22nd). Manager Anise Ahmed worked hard over [Read more]

Cup glory for Aden Steelers

30th April 2018

Photos by Anise Ahmed Congratulations to Aden Steelers who held their nerve to win their cup final today, with a 4-3 victory on penalties over Sheffield United Girls RTC. Hero of the day was Ameen [Read more]

Aden Steelers chase final success

30th April 2018

Story and photo by Anise Ahmed As we go to print, local team Aden Steelers Under-12s are preparing to play in their biggest game of the year, the Sheffield & District Junior League U12 Demitasse [Read more]

Future football stars of Burngreave

30th April 2018

Story and photos by Fran Belbin A new football project is more than reaching its goals. Local resident Sahra Abdi has put the project together with funding from the Police and Crime Commissioner. It is [Read more]

Tom Wharton – the first superfan

30th April 2018

Story by Kevin Stapleton | Photo courtesy of Sheffield Wednesday FC Sheffield Wednesday historian, Jason Dickinson, and a host of other keen Wednesday fans have launched a crowdfunding campaign for one of the clubs biggest [Read more]

William Henry “Fatty” Foulke – (12 April 1874 – 1 May 1916)

31st January 2018

William Henry Foulke was the most famous of goalkeepers at the turn of the 20th Century and is buried in Burngreave Cemetery. He was born in Darley, Shropshire and seemed doomed to a life in the coal mines, but his height coupled with his vocation for sport – cricket and football – changed his fate. [Read more]