Teams representing more than one town...

[brighton terra]

Pedant alert - Redbridge is not a town

Dagenham and Redbridge actually represent Walthamstow, Leytonstone, Ilford and Dagenham following numerous amalgamations over the last 30 years.

 

[16bha]

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.

What about Hibernian?

 

[arkan]

What's the name of the road then?

have a guess, the clue is in the name

 

[The Large One]

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.

Everton exists as a suburb of Liverpool, though Liverpool FC is closer than Everton FC.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

What about Hibernian?

Well if it follows from my saying in England, than there is nothing about Hibernian.

 

[brighton terra]

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.

You beat me to it, but left out Leytonstone!

 

[Sussex Nomad]

have a guess, the clue is in the name

East Road?

 

[Fungus]

Notts County?

Hmmm, my first thought was "does Barnham Seagull understand the question?"

But, yes, I guess they can claim to represent ALL the towns in the county?

 

[The Large One]

So a bit like Crystal Palace - except the name DID get used to name an area of South London.

Quite, and before the football club started up.

 

[arkan]

East Road?

yeah yeah, got it in one...

 

[Sussex Nomad]

yeah yeah, got it in one...

Cool! But I'm f***ed if I know what that has to do with Accrington Stanley!

 

[Gully]

I believe in England they are the only club without a place to their name.

[Edit] Pro club I meant.

Forest Green play in the village of Nailsworth...Forest Green itself is little more than a housing estate on the edge of the village.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

Forest Green play in the village of Nailsworth...Forest Green itself is little more than a housing estate on the edge of the village.

Yeah but, no but, yeah but what I meant was the 4 main divisions.

 

[Gully]

Yeah but, no but, yeah but what I meant was the 4 main divisions.

They are still a professional football club though.

I was trying to think of a Scottish club who don't share their name with the place they play, can't remember their name but sure that they play in Fife.

 

[Seagull Steve]

apart from the detail that they've dropped the Woolwich part, theres no place called "Arsenal".

(if we do clubs that dont have a real place name, Arsenal would be first to mind)

Tis true, but there are still people around that still call them by their original name, but they also represent a part of North London. Very spurious I know, but I couldn't really think of any others.

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

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?

While the tube station was named after the club, the process still fits within your original term 'a place to their name'.

 

[Sussex Nomad]

While the tube station was named after the club, the process still fits within your original term 'a place to their name'.

They should have been named after the tube station... Gillespie Road 0 - 5 Barcelona

 

[Gully]

They should have been named after the tube station... Gillespie Road 0 - 5 Barcelona

Pity they didn't build their ground near Elephant and Castle in that case!

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

They are still a professional football club though.

I was trying to think of a Scottish club who don't share their name with the place they play, can't remember their name but sure that they play in Fife.

St Johnstone play in Perth.

 

[Southover Street Seagull]

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.

Herbert Chapman managed Arsenal between 1925 and 1934.