http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/blog/2012/nov/16/tottenham-arsenal-battling-mediocrity-derby
Has any other team had such squalid early years? Underhand deals. "The club's soul and heritage being sold off". Running away from their 'spiritual home' (twice now incidentally) in the hunt for more money!
Aptly enough, the g0onars' first ground had a large open sewer running alongside it.
So I wondered if any of you could think of another football club with such grimey, glory-less beginnings?
Time for another whiskey <laphroaig>
Interesting little article...
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Evertons an absoulete s'hithole as is the area, probably the worst ground and place i've ever been tbh, annoying because i actually like everton, QPR is an absoulete dump as well
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Millwall's got to be up there...
Old Leicester City ground...Filbert Street was a miserable bum hole of a place (although I was on a frightful come down that day).
Although WHL with the rioters out ain't too pretty!!
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I liked that article TommyEgg. The history of football fascinates me. I can just imagine the outrage at the time - just as we at Sheffield Wednesday would have been outraged at the audacity of the other team in Sheffield which was formed when we were 21 years old, and called themselves UNITED
The cheek of it.
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Yeh ive heard the dens a dump never been to the ground though, Leeds + portsmouth are dumps as well, theres actually quite a few in the championship that are tbh only been to a few though! Emirates is the stadium i've been to in england tbh in terms of scenery etc, its beautiful! Wembley a close 2nd. Bernabeu beats them all though
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The best stadium*
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But I'm thinking more historically. You know, Tottenham Hotspur FC, winning the FA Cup as a non-league side = glory.
Having a cheating cuiit of a chairman, bribing, terrorising and cheating your way to the top table, while playing alongside a sewer ""The team who played at the end of the Earth".
Any other teams, even internationally, who have their ORIGINS from the gutter.
Surely Boca Juniors have got some tasty stories behind them... They've always struck me as a dark club. Satan would probably support Boca no? With Maradonna sat watching the games on his knee...?
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Polish ones look proper naughty and dumps aswell, and Galatasary looks fkin deadly!
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Owl & Kitty
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