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FOOTBALL MANAGER 2024 - ONE CLUB ONE DREAM with Rushall Olympic FC
Regardless of our prediction of getting relegated last season, we won promotion through the playoffs into the National League. Now with a limited wage budget and difficulties attracting new players to the club. Can we be the surprise package of the National League this season?
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Club History:
In the early years of Rushall Olympic, this thriving club certainly existed just after the First World War, up until the mid-1930s. During this period the team (many of whom worked at the local Aldridge pit) played on the field behind the Miners Arms Public House in Rushall - changing in the pub and enjoying a pint after the game. The team, then playing in old gold and black stripes, was a "good 'un", and won various honors along the way, including the 1919-20 Lichfield & District League Championship in the first full season following the Great War; the Walsall Charity Cup in 1920-21 (playing the semi-final in the morning and the final in the afternoon), 1921-22 and jointly in 1922-23; the Walsall & District Parks League Championship and Senior Cup double of 1924-25; and the Walsall Junior Cup of 1935-36 - all before the club disbanding sometime prior to the outbreak of the Second World War.
In 1951, a few local lads - John Edwards, Des Hyde, and Graham Wiggin, decided it was high time that football made a return to the village. They approached George Hunt, the proprietor of a local fish and chip shop, for permission to use his premises as their headquarters - which was agreed to, and Rowley Place was decided upon as the Pic's home ground. Other local players soon joined, including Don Griffiths, Eric Handley, Sid Yates, Wilf Trow, and Ernie Lamb. Sid Whitehouse became their trainer and Jim Trow and Mr Evans joined as committee members. With the help of George Hunt, a playing strip of red and white striped shirts was purchased and entry was gained into the Second Division of the Walsall & District Amateur League, where the team soon began winning trophies. In 1952, Ernie Lamb became the Club Secretary and Arthur Steed (later to become Chairman) joined as trainer; local bookmaker Jim Edge became President; and the headquarters were moved to Rushall Labour Club. Following suggestions from local people with memories of the pre-war club, it was finally decided to revert back to an old gold and black strip - the club's original colours. The Olympic were back in business.
