The Clapham Rovers were the fifth club to lift the F.A. Cup, yet little is known about them.  An elite club for over a decade, their decline was even quicker.

For the first time, the story of the Rovers is now told from their first match at Hitchin, through to World War One when the club suspended operations and never re-emerged at the end of the hostilities.

This book charts the fortunes of the club with the pinnacle being in 1880 when they lifted the F.A. Cup and later its failed attempts to re-establish itself via the Mid-Surrey League and the A.F.A.