Quote Originally Posted by The Lone Gunman View Post
I think many of us probably found out where Port Vale play when we were in school. I know I did. Remember the old football wall map with the club badges on it? Loads of us had those when we were kids.

Anyway, according to Wiki, Burslem is one of the six towns that along with Hanley, Tunstall, Fenton, Longton and Stoke-upon-Trent form part of the city of Stoke-on-Trent in Staffordshire, England.
The wall map must have passed me by. Hence my ignorance until my early twenties!
Later in life I was posted to Rosyth for three months and discovered that there is no town called Raith. The eponymous team (that I got around to seeing) plies their trade in the town of Methil.