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A-Z Of English Football

N - Northampton Town. Football club currently playing in League One. In the 1960s they had the remarkable record of advancing from the Fourth Division to the First and back again in only 9 seasons.
 
O OLDHAM Athletic - founded in 1895 and founder members of the Premier League now playing in the National League. Professor Brian Cox (him with the lovely eyes and smile) is a supporter. The club has an association with Eintracht Frankfurt and you can often see a small section of Frankfurt's support on the terraces at Boundary Park.
 
herringthorpe said:
O OLDHAM Athletic - founded in 1895 and founder members of the Premier League now playing in the National League. Professor Brian Cox (him with the lovely eyes and smile) is a supporter. The club has an association with Eintracht Frankfurt and you can often see a small section of Frankfurt's support on the terraces at Boundary Park.
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Didn't know about the association with EF, Caz. I do remember in 1970-71 the Ford Sporting League was introduced to reward goals and lack of bookings, sending offs etc and Oldham under Jimmy Frizzel won every single monthly award throughout the season.
 
Q - Queens Park Rangers. My local club when I lived in London. I still remember their games against us in 1967-68 and the League Cup Final 3:2 against WBA was a great watch. My favourite London club.
 
S SWINDON TOWN - founded in 1879 turning professional fifteen years later and are the only League team in Wiltshire. Promoted ten times, won League Cup and Anglo Italian Cup twice.

And they are close to that 'magic roundabout'!
 
herringthorpe said:
S SWINDON TOWN - founded in 1879 turning professional fifteen years later and are the only League team in Wiltshire. Promoted ten times, won League Cup and Anglo Italian Cup twice.

And they are close to that 'magic roundabout'!
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Yes, and when they beat Arsenal 3:1 in the 1969 League Cup Final with the great Don Rogers the manager was our own Danny Williams.
 
T - for a triple; Tony 'Tiger' Towner. RUFC RW signed from Millwall with John Seasman. His partnership with Ronnie Moore was a key element in winning the Division 3 title in 1981. Oh for those two in their prime today.
 
Lindum said:
T - for a triple; Tony 'Tiger' Towner. RUFC RW signed from Millwall with John Seasman. His partnership with Ronnie Moore was a key element in winning the Division 3 title in 1981. Oh for those two in their prime today.
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In my humble opinion without TTT Ronnie Moore wouldn't have been the forward he was for the Millers
 
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U UNITED - many teams in English Football called United including our very own Rotherham.
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Now you raise an interesting point there, Caz. 'United' has implications of a coming together as per Rotherham Town and Rotherham County. I wonder what proportion of modern 'Uniteds' were named after mergers?
 
Most of them, I would guess. A fairly recent one - Ebbsfleet United (previously Gravesend and Northfleet). Tony Towner played for Gravesend and Nothfleet late in his post-Millers football career (see entry for "T").
 
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V - VALLEY PARADE, home of Bradford City FC.First built in 1886 but revamp a number of times including after the fire in 1985 which killed 56 spectators. Capacity since becoming all-seater is just under 25,000.
 
W - Sheffield Wednesday. A league football club near Rotherham in South Yorkshire. So far as I know only club to be named after a day of the week? Formed in 1867 as an offshoot of The Wednesday Cricket Club - which played its matches on that day - the club was known as The Wednesday Football Club until 1929.
 
Lindum said:
Now you raise an interesting point there, Caz. 'United' has implications of a coming together as per Rotherham Town and Rotherham County. I wonder what proportion of modern 'Uniteds' were named after mergers?
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Hmm very interesting - and I don't know the answer!
 
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