[9] However the match had ended 6 minutes early, and a successful Swifts protest[10] saw the final 6 minutes being played off on 2 December, as a curtain-raiser to the Sheffield Football Association match against the Cheshire Football Association, which fortuitously had already been arranged to take place at Town's Clifton Lane ground; owing to injuries both sides only fielded 10 men, and Town scored a third goal in the extra time.

[11] Several of the players - the Swifts' Pearce, Whittam, Howell, and Watson, and Town's Rodgers, Cross, Longden, and Bridgewater - played in the main event for the Sheffield FA.

[14] However, after three games, the Swifts withdrew,[15] finding the costs of travel to be too great, and, before its resignation was accepted, applied to join the Sheffield & District League.

There was a sad aftermath in May 1892, when former goalkeeper Thomas Pearce drowned himself in the canal near the Swifts' ground; a verdict of suicide by temporary insanity (blamed on being "troubled about his love affairs") was returned.

[24] The highest recorded attendance at the ground was 4,000, for the FA Cup qualifying tie with Rotherham Town on 16 November 1889.