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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Taunton Blue Genie
Port Vale, Raith Rovers and Queen of The South: three teams that few people know of but not which towns they are in.
Burslem (Stoke), Kirkcaldy and Dumfries
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
StraightOuttaCanton
... apart from Arsenal that is
And Crystal Palace
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Dorcus
And Crystal Palace
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Always wondered why
That's almost the exact words Jimmy Andrews used about us.He said we are a small club in a big stadium.It's difficult to argue with really.
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
insider
Followed by a small band of snide tw@ts
Ive always hated them
I've had reasons to be to Burslem a few times not all nice there.
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
dandywarhol
That's almost the exact words Jimmy Andrews used about us.He said we are a small club in a big stadium.It's difficult to argue with really.
The same jimmy andrews who stopped john toshack from joining the coaching staff at cardiff because he questioned his experience so he fecked off to swansea and got them promoted
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
StraightOuttaCanton
... apart from Arsenal that is
I think its small residential area in Highbury
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
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i'm sure Crystal Palace is a place name , however I do know Total Network Solutions isn't
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
life on mars
I think its small residential area in Highbury
Arsenal were named after woolwich arsenal football club I believe , found in the south east of london where they used to make guns and ammunition
They then moved to north london
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Arsenal were named after woolwich arsenal football club I believe , found in the south east of london where they used to make guns and ammunition
They then moved to north london
I believe the original team was workers from the Arsenal who formed a club to play. A bit like West Ham. and Sheffield Wednesday.
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
dandywarhol
That's almost the exact words Jimmy Andrews used about us.He said we are a small club in a big stadium.It's difficult to argue with really.
Funnily enough, looking at the average attendances, the first time they dipped below 10,000 post-war was in 1975, a year after he took over. Making excuses? :sherlock: :hehe:
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
I believe the original team was workers from the Arsenal who formed a club to play. A bit like West Ham. and Sheffield Wednesday.
West Ham...Thames Valley Ironworks, hence ‘C’mon You Irons’:thumbup:
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
The only club in the 4 divisions named after a part of the body
NortHampton & SoutHampton:getscoat:
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
The only club in the 4 divisions named after a part of the body
Liverpool.....
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
Liverpool.....
Hipswich
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
SLUDGE FACTORY
Always wondered why
Check out the Odsal Stadium in Bradford. Now that used to be a monster of a ground, second only in size to Wembley. A record crowd of over 102,000 in 1954 ! On Wiki there's a great black and white aerial shot of a full stadium, which is quite mind boggling.
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Croesy Blue
Hipswich
mmm fair enough.
On that basis I give you Twatford.
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Moodybluebird
Check out the Odsal Stadium in Bradford. Now that used to be a monster of a ground, second only in size to Wembley. A record crowd of over 102,000 in 1954 ! On Wiki there's a great black and white aerial shot of a full stadium, which is quite mind boggling.
I know it was massive , I used to live in bradford
Bradford played leeds at the odsal after the bradford fire wrecked valley parade
Leeds fans set a mobile hot dog van alight in the end they were allocated
Which was sensitive of them
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
Eric the Half a Bee
The only club in the 4 divisions named after a part of the body
Liverpool
Blackpool
Accrington
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
splott parker
West Ham...Thames Valley Ironworks, hence ‘C’mon You Irons’:thumbup:
delete 'valley' and you got it. lol
Sheffield made up os people who worked in shops hence the 'Wednesday'. Shops were all open on a saturday so they had to play on wednesday afternoons. (No sport on the sabbath in those days )
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
The Bloop
Liverpool
Blackpool
Accrington
Sorry, don't get parts of the body in those, unless you mean ring in accrington.
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
RichardM
Why is it odd that they played Newport?
At the time Newport didn't have a football team :hehe::hehe::hehe:
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
[QUOTE=xsnaggle;5086209]delete 'valley' and you got it. lol
Sheffield made up os people who worked in shops hence the 'Wednesday'. Shops were all open on a saturday so they had to play on wednesday afternoons. (No sport on the sabbath in those days )[/QUOTE
I wondered who’d spot that first Sgt Wilson:hehe:
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
[QUOTE=splott parker;5086220]
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
delete 'valley' and you got it. lol
Sheffield made up os people who worked in shops hence the 'Wednesday'. Shops were all open on a saturday so they had to play on wednesday afternoons. (No sport on the sabbath in those days )[/QUOTE
I wondered who’d spot that first Sgt Wilson:hehe:
Y:hehe:ou were just checking if everyone was paying attention weren't you?
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Re: Port Vale , big ground for a small club
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Originally Posted by
xsnaggle
Sorry, don't get parts of the body in those, unless you mean ring in accrington.
Poo in Blackpool and I do mean ring