Port Vale Fan

[lardy]

There's an Arsenal Underground station.

But it wasn't named after a place, the station was named after the club.

Arsenal was named after a building, which is a place - but not one found on the map like the post said.

Ready for someone to continue playing semantics tennis with me

[Baloo]

But it wasn't named after a place, the station was named after the club.

Arsenal was named after a building, which is a place - but not one found on the map like the post said.

Ready for someone to continue playing semantics tennis with me

Well, couldn't resist this challenge. Actually, I think Port Vale might be first club not named after a settlement, not a place . It seems Port Vale Wharf was a place you could stop on the Trent & Mersey Canal, near to the ground.

[xsnaggle]

But it wasn't named after a place, the station was named after the club.

Arsenal was named after a building, which is a place - but not one found on the map like the post said.

Ready for someone to continue playing semantics tennis with me

They were originally Woolwich Arsenal, and that is definitely on the map.

Port vale is unique because the place 'Port Vale' doesn't actually exist. Every other team in the EFL and Prem has a name to associate it with a place.

with regards to Rangers and Celtic the names are both predicated by'Glasgow,