[1] The club was based in mercantilism - secretary Whiskard a clerk to a tea company in Eastcheap,[2] and his team-mate Rutherford a wine importer in nearby Great Tower Street.

[3] The club only played in the FA Cup once, losing 4–1 at South Norwood in 1876–77;[4] the previous week Saxons has scored 13 past a hapless Gresham.

The Saxons were said to be playing "on the win tie or wrangle principal [sic]", and were "apparently intent upon displaying their powers of polite repartee to make up for their deficiency in the knowledge of the Association rules."

Leeds complained in turn about the Saxons players regularly disputing refereeing decisions, often in unison, and dismissed the club as "comparatively obscure".

[13] They are not to be confused with Saxons FC of Sheffield, formed in 1877 and who were dissolved in around 1880, who played at Norfolk Park, and whose colours were navy blue with a Union Jack on the chest.