Vegas Seagull
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Where do you keep your guns?
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Teams representing more than one town...
- Thread starter 16bha
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Where do you keep your guns?
Monkey Man
Your support is not that great
Midhurst & Easebourne.
Gazwag
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even bigger pendant - Brighton and Hove is a city isn't it so there is no longer a town called Hove or Brighton
DumLum
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Is it a city? Their rivals Redbridge are in the F.A. cup first round against Oxford City.
Barnham Seagull
Yapton Actually
Notts County?
Sussex Nomad
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Used to be Rye and Iden, but they dumped Iden... ruthless bastards!
Sussex Nomad
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I believe in England they are the only club without a place to their name.
[Edit] Pro club I meant.
Goldstone Rapper
Rediffusion PlayerofYear
Apart from the tube station.
Sussex Nomad
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Which that 30's manager they had ... forget his name... Herbert..., persuaded a change to the name although it still has the original name underneath. Gillespie Road?
arkan
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The stanley part is after a road in accrington...
wolfie
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Woolwich Arsenal is a definite place - now redeveloped as housing and civic buildings. The original team played in Plumstead, where some of the terracing from the Invicta ground survives in the back garden of an Edwardian house. Herbert Chapman seized the opportunity to re-locate to Highbury in around 1913, much to the annoyancer of the board of Tottenham Hotspur.
Sussex Nomad
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What's the name of the road then?
Sussex Nomad
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Yeah I know all that, I was replying to the tube station being renamed.
The Large One
Who's Next?
Port Vale.
thisistips
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Bevendean Barcelona
turienzo's lovechild
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ny/nj metrostars before they changed their name to ny red bulls
beorhthelm
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- Jul 21, 2003
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was trying to think of others too, best i could do was QPR, while there is a Queens Park its not a town but a park.
named after the club.
it was the Royal Arsenal. its a shame they've dropped the original name for the station. eitherway, claiming its a town seperate is silly, you might as well count Nottingham Forrest.
beorhthelm
A. Virgo, Football Genius
- Jul 21, 2003
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good catch.
i'll add are friends up the road, not named after a town but a big green house.
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Redbridge is a borough of London, it gets confusing as Dagenham merged with Redbridge Forest, who originally resulted from a merger between Walthamstow and Ilford. The Redbridge in the FA Cup changed their name to Redbridge a couple of years ago, from Ford United, essentially the works team from the Dagenham factory. Phew.
clapham_gull
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- Aug 20, 2003
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Debatable apparently.
The name did exist on maps long ago and the club were formed after meeting in Port Vale House.
So a bit like Crystal Palace - except the name DID get used to name an area of South London.
Does "Everton" exist as a place anymore ? Don't think it does.
So (I think) Arsenal is the only team with a name that doesn't strictly relate to an historical place - since they've dropped the Greenwich bit.