A dedicated Notts County football fan is raising money for a plaque to commemorate the building where the first ever professional football club was formed.

Andy Black, 53, from Basford, has started a crowd-funding page for the plaque to be placed outside the Mercure Hotel on George Street.

On December 7, 1864, a group of football players gathered in Suite 102 in what was then the George Hotel - now the Mercure Hotel - on George Street, in Hockley, and created the first professional ‘football’ club in the world.


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