In a pub quiz recently is it bollocks?

[nwgull]

The only one I've heard of is PNE, but because they were founder members of the league, although I suppose that would have made them winners by default......must have been an exciting season!

 

[Safeway]

The only one I've heard of is PNE, but because they were founder members of the league, although I suppose that would have made them winners by default......must have been an exciting season!

They weren't the ONLY team in the first ever Football League.

 

[Artois]

We've had this CRAP discussion before:

Q: Which two teams do not have to wear their change strips at an away game, but can instead insist that the home team change theirs?

A: Preston North End (because they were the first Football League champions) and Reading (because they play in the Royal County of Berkshire)


The only problem with this question is that it is UTTER RUBBISH! Is there anyone out there who is really so stupid as to think that there would be FA rules relating to the above. And why Preston North End anyway? Why not The Wanderers, who were the first winners of the FA Cup? Surely that would be a more likely rule? And what exactly does "playing in the Royal County" have to do with anything? Name one reason why occupying the same county as a group of German parasites should have anything to do with the colour shirts that a football side might wear.

There is a theory that this particularly stupid question goes back to Reading's away trip to Brighton & Hove Albion in the 1992/93 season. That year, the Reading marketing people introduced the new first team kit of blue and white hoops, to general acclaim. However, they were also exceptionally stupid (no change there!) and created a reserve strip of yellow and blue hoops. When we played away to a side with blue in their shirts, and so had to wear our change strip, quite a few referees took one look at the Reading away shirts and said that the game couldn't possibly take place like that.

Normally, this meant that Reading had to wear the home side's away shirt - this happened at Wigan Athletic and Huddersfield Town, for example. At Brighton, for whatever reason, it was the home side who changed into their away shirt. Reading played in the blue and white hoops, and it appears that the legend of the question was born.

Quite where Preston North End came into it, I have no idea.

Neil Sheldon told me he had heard a version of the answer which included Notts County on the basis that they were the oldest League club and founder members. Clearly, though, this is still rubbish.

Russell Parr told me that until the early 1970s Arsenal always wore their change strip in games against Nottingham Forest, whether playing at home or away. This was as a mark of respect for the fact that it was Forest who donated Royal Arsenal a set of red shirts in 1887 when the London club was formed. Should this question ever appear but replacing either Preston or Reading with Nottingham Forest, then this tale is likely to be the reason why.

 

[Everest]

Which King EVER supported the Albion?

and my family of course

 

[Artois]

It's Reading AND Preston North End.

Reading because they are in the Royal County and PNE becasue they were the first winners of the football league iirc.

So the Swindon supporting quiz master was wrong on 2 counts, it's not Brighton and there are 2 teams that don't have to wear changed strips but could, if they chose to, insist the home team changes.

But you're wrong too.

So does that make you wrong on THREE counts?

 

[readingstockport]

But you're wrong too.

So does that make you wrong on THREE counts?

I stick my tounge out in your general direction.

 

[beorhthelm]

It's Reading AND Preston North End.

Reading because they are in the Royal County and PNE becasue they were the first winners of the football league iirc.

So the Swindon supporting quiz master was wrong on 2 counts, it's not Brighton and there are 2 teams that don't have to wear changed strips but could, if they chose to, insist the home team changes.

which is also false, as has been discussed before.

The story relating to Reading has its roots in a game against Brighton where we had to change to our away colours as the numpties from Berkshire had forgotten there's... which i suspect is where the bar quiz master got his dodgy question from.

 

[Artois]

which is also false, as has been discussed before.

The story relating to Reading has its roots in a game against Brighton where we had to change to our away colours as the numpties from Berkshire had forgotten there's... which i suspect is where the bar quiz master got his dodgy question from.

echo echo echo......