125 Years
Last night Jon Lansdown confirmed that next season we will have a new crest. He also confirmed that this crest will include the date of 1894 rather than 1897. This is, I think, the first time that the current powers that be have acknowledged the year of 1894 as our founding year.
The maths wizard's amongst you will no doubt realise that if you subtract 1894 from 2019 you get 125. So, assuming that our first season was the 1894/95 season (and I don't know for sure if that season was split
Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but if we were to take 1894-95 as our first season, then our 125th would actually be the current campaign. We turn 125 on 12th April I believe (and thus the year prior has been our 125th year).
However, I don’t think we technically entered an official league/competition until the 1895-96 season (though I’m more than prepared to bow to others’ superior knowledge), so that would make next season our 125th.
That said, we only entered the FA Cup in 1895-9