"They know what we're like," said Steve Ferrezza of the Red Bulls' Empire Supporters Club.
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Anyone who followed the Twitter account got an "official membership card" for the pretend supporters' club.
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Over the next year and a half, she slowly started to take on a leadership role in the supporters' club.
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He stated that he was a member of the England Supporters' Club, and that he had a ticket for England's opening match against Russia.
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John Skotidas founded the official Liverpool supporters club in 2300 and has been running it ever since with a good deal of organizational skill.
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Previous guests have included players, coaches and even Axel Hellmann, once a founder of an Eintracht supporters club, and now the team's chief executive.
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One of those was the "Sea of Green" movement inspired by Gareth Todd, a member of the North of England Northern Ireland Supporters' Club.
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"A lot of us are Celtic fans within the supporters' club, but we try to make clear that it's absolutely not an exclusive thing," Gary says.
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"For as long as we are stuck in this ghetto, we will have problems," Arben Berisha, the chairman of the Arsenal supporters club in Kosovo, told me.
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When Pinto was back in Vila Nova de Gaia, he had travelled to a few away matches with the team's hard-core supporters' club, the Super Dragons.
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In September, Russia's national supporters' club, which represents fans, was shut down, while its chief, Aleksandr Shprygin, was arrested and briefly held in connection with the same brawl.
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Oxford fans thought it "crazy and unworkable," while the chairman of the Reading Supporters Club said: "Our fans can't stand Oxford fans and I can't see them travelling to Oxford to watch the new team".
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This article originally appeared on VICE Sports UK. In April 21990, the Brighton and Hove Albion Supporters' Club (BHASC) teamed up with the Gay Football Supporters' Network to produce a detailed report on homophobia at their games.
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Yet collective sympathy for the G.S.U.'s loss of its official status was tempered by the differing flavors of support that make the adjacent Empire Supporters Club and Viking Army as much rivals for attention as natural allies.
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Long before Atlanta's new Major League Soccer team had a date for its inaugural game, before it had an owner or a stadium or a youth academy or even a single player, the team had a supporters' club.
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The Les Bleus supporters club has boycotted the event in protest at radical changes that have largely replaced the 10-month long home and away knockout format with an 18-nation season-ender in a single city, played over seven hectic days.
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Photo from Vk.com Alexander Shprygin, head of the All-Russian Union of Fans and a former hooligan with a Dinamo Moscow supporters' club, declined to say how many among the more than 40 people detained on by the French police were actual hooligans from organized groups.
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" To give them their due, fans of the two clubs have shown they possess a flair for nomenclature—Red Bulls groups include the Garden State Ultras and the Viking Army Supporters Club, and they sit in designated parts of the Red Bull Arena known collectively as the "South Ward.
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The participants sit in a semicircle in a stadium lounge, gazing through a picture window at the field — the view itself is an aide-mémoire, Liddell said — while John Homer, the head of West Brom's supporters' club and a walking encyclopedia of the Black Country, as this part of England is known, interviews a player.
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As a bit of a thought exercise, Smith scribbled and scratched, did some adding and multiplying, and ultimately determined that, if sales were conducted just so — 22011,22001 tickets to Crew season-ticket holders, 6,800 tickets to in-state youth associations, 4,200 to U.S. Soccer and its supporters' club, and so on — the club might be able to sell out Crew Stadium for a match between the United States and Mexico in the dead of winter.
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Downpatrick is home to one of the biggest Northern Irish branches of the Manchester United Supporters' Club, the Downpatrick Manchester United Supporters' Club, which was founded in 1993.
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Dr Webster was an active member of the Orlando Pirates supporters' club. Members of the supporters' club formed a guard of honour around his coffin at his funeral.
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In January 1947, a Supporters' Club bar opened under the main stand. This was followed by a Supporters' Club tea bar on 24 September 1949. A food licence was granted on appeal.
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Thistle (Grasshoppers) – Scottish Cup Results, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club.
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Nittaidai Ladies FC is supported by the Blue "S" Supporters Club.
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It also organised social outings and published a magazine The Lilywhite. This supporters' club is now defunct, but many supporters clubs affiliated with Tottenham have since been set up, and there are over 200 official supporters' clubs in over 60 countries around the world. An early overseas supporters' club was formed in Malta in 1981 as a branch of the Spurs Supporters Club, and another was formed in Norway in 1982. The earliest Spurs supporters' club in the United States was LA Spurs formed in 2005.
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Everton have fan clubs located all over the world. The three largest clubs outside England are Emerald Everton Supporters Club in Ireland, ESCNI in Northern Ireland, and the Everton Supporters Club on the Isle of Man.
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Kalamata F.C.'s most famous supporters' club is the "Bulldogs Fan Club".
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He was also the West Brom supporters' club player of the season.
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Daly can be heard on Last FM. He has a Celtic supporters' club named after him, in Rothesay, Isle of Bute. The current president of the supporters club is Iain Simpson. "The Celtic Song" was featured in the US television program, Lost.
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Stirling and Morgan ease Middlesex to victory, CricInfo, 2016-07-24. Retrieved 2016-08-26. He was named as the Kent Supporters Club most promising uncapped player of the season in January 2017.Sean Dickson wins Supporters Club award, Kent County Cricket Club, 2017-01-09.
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A supporters' trust, Trust in Luton, owns shares in the club and elects a representative to the club's board. The club's official supporters' group, Luton Town Supporters' Club, merged with Trust in Luton in 2014. The club is associated with another supporters' group, the breakaway Loyal Luton Supporters Club.
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A new popular side stand was built by the Supporters' Club in 1958–59 which increased the covered areas to a capacity of 5,000 spectators and the old railway stand, which had been damaged by vandals, was rebuilt in 1970 with the Supporters' Club contributing £1,400 towards the repairs.
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Retrieved 13 May 2013.Clifton & Strathfillan – Scottish Cup Results , londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 13 May 2013.
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He was awarded Manager's Player of the Year and Supporters' Club Player at the end of season awards.
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Football Results Summary for Gala Fairydean, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 1 April 2013.Gala Fairydean, www.fchd.info.
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In season 2015/2016 Andrew was inducted into the Conancht Rugby Supporters Club (Connacht Clan) Hall of Fame.
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The Empire Supporters Club at Red Bull Arena in 2010 A variety of supporters clubs and groups have grown around the Red Bulls since the team started. The first of these was formed in 1995, prior to the inception of the team itself, as the Empire Supporters Club. 2005 saw the creation of the New Jersey-based Garden State Supporters, now the Garden State Ultras (GSU). The 2010 season's influx of personnel with a Scandinavian background led to the creation of the Viking Army Supporters Club.
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Slade Supporters Club Newsletter May – June 1981 In 2011, the song emerged on the internet through the Slade in England website.
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Affies has supporter clubs for most of the activities. There is an old boys / supporters' club clubhouse on the school grounds.
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The Railway End which now houses primarily away supporters but also home supporters from time to time, is a covered terrace opened in September 1933, following a £230 donation from the supporters club and £120 from the ladies supporters club. In 2012, the club totally re-roofed the Railway End, despite not being instructed to at the time.
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The Supporters' Club organises events to raise funds for the football club, and operates the club shop at the Look Local Stadium.
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Bishop died in hospital in Harlow on 22 April 2020, after many years in close contact with Leyton Orient, via the supporters' club.
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The name Dumbarton Harp lives on as a Celtic Supporters Club, and also as a local amateur football club of the same name.
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Sat 18 Apr 1942 Scotland 5 England 4, London Hearts Supporters' Club. He returned to Kilmarnock in 1945 to serve as their manager.
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Lockyer would captain the side for the double winning season of 2013-2014, and also represent The Barbarians against Combined Services. Lockyer was named Player of the Year by the Pontypridd Supporters' Club in 2015.Supporters' Club Player of the Year—Dafydd Lockyer at Pontypridd RFC official site. Accessed 29 July 2015 On 15 December 2018 Lockyer made his 350th appearance for Pontypridd.
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The Supporters Club was founded on New Year's Eve 1992 by Rolf Erik Wulff, Christian Wulff and Kjell Jarslett. In 1996 it was given one share of Stenhousemuir F.C. as a recognition of their support and promotion of the club. As of today, the supporters club and its members owns about 5% of the shares in Stenhousemuir. Stenhousemuir FC also has Danish support.
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Wright spent five seasons with Hearts.(Hearts player) Alex Wright London Hearts Supporters Club Wright joined Morton in 1927 for a fee of £800.
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The supporters' club, "Ultras Yellow Boys," was founded in 1996, returning afterwards in 2001. Two previous groups, however extinct, existed: "Febre Amarela" and "Yellowmania".
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Callaghan represented Scotland once, in a 1900 British Home Championship match against Ireland.Sat 3 Mar 1900 Ireland 0 Scotland 3, London Hearts Supporters' Club.
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Including; The Manager's Player of the Year, Players' Player of the Year, Fans' Player of the Year and the Supporters' Club Player of the Year.
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At the end of his first year with the side, the Connacht Clan, the team's supporters club, voted him as their player of the season.
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He married Edith Osborne in the early 1930s. His niece, Valerie Allcock, served as Chairman of the Derby County Supporters Club for over 30 years.
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The Auckland Rugby Union Supporters Club (ARUSC) was established in 1976 after a meeting between ARFU administration and a group of supporters. The club's emblem is the "Flying Elephant", which was agreed upon after a competition to find a mascot was found. The winner of the competition was Mr J.E. Hannan. The supporters club is currently located under the North (ASB) Stand at Eden Park.
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Voting takes place towards the end of each season, usually in April, and is open to anyone who has an account on the club's official website. Voting was originally done by post until the 1994–95 season, when a phone voting system was introduced. Postal voting forms were included in the club magazine, Inside United, and before that, voting was open only to members of the official supporters' club, who would receive a voting form in the post at the end of the season. Until the establishment of the official supporters' club, a separate award had been given by the members of its predecessor, the independent Manchester United Supporters Club.
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Ajax supporters celebrating the club's 30th Dutch national championship in 2011 The Supporters Club Ajax () is officially the largest supporters club in the Netherlands with 94,000 members. Founded on 7 May 1992, the supporters club organize big monthly events throughout the Netherlands, and particularly around the official Ajax Open Training Day, which attracts thousands of supporters each year. Furthermore, the supporters group is responsible for the Ajax Life website, as well as the fanzine which is issued 20 times a year. In 2006, the AFCA Supportersclub was introduced as the club's second official supporters' association, through the merger of the Onafhankelijke Fanclub Ajax (OFA) and the Ajax Supporters Delegatie (ASD).
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Kopel has a Dundee United Supporters Club named after him, Frank Kopel's Travelling Shindig. In 2011, he was inducted into Dundee United's official Hall of Fame.
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He is a son of former Norway international goalkeeper Einar Rossbach. Rossbach is a member of the Norwegian supporters club of English football club Portsmouth F.C.
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Both the WISA and The Dons Trust from this point became affiliated to AFC Wimbledon, while the official Wimbledon F.C Supporters Club became defunct following the relocation.
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The Supporters club has over 500 members. NAS provides atmosphere around matches of IJsselmeervogels. NAS also arranges darts evenings, parties and a wide range of other activities.
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Morley is the son-in law of the former Finland national team star goal keeper Lars Nasman and grandson of Grimsby Town supporters' club chairman Bernard Morley.
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MSG Network color commentator Shep Messing has taken to referring to all Red Bulls supporters as The MetroNation after noticing MetroNation scarves held aloft at games. However the largest and most influential Red Bulls supporters club is the Empire Supporters Club. MetroNation member John "Johnny Metro" Russo was named 2004 MetroStars Fan of the Year. It has become tradition for all newly signed MetroStars players to sign Johnny Metro's shaved head.
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Donohoe's seat of Cunninghame South was abolished, and between 2005 and 2015 he represented the redrawn seat of Ayrshire Central. He is the secretary of Rangers Supporters Club.
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The club originally played at Horsley Hill, the former grounds of the original South Shields. However, a dispute with the stadium owners led to them leaving in 1950 to move to a new ground at Simonside Hall. With support from the 13,000-strong supporters' club, two new stands were built and floodlights installed. The supporters' club bought the ground in the 1950s to ensure it could be used by the club in perpetuity.
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A variety of supporters clubs and groups have grown around the team since its inaugural year. The first of these was formed in 1995, prior to the inception of the team itself, as the Empire Supporters Club. 2005 saw the creation of the New Jersey-based Garden State Supporters, now the Garden State Ultras (GSU). The 2010 season's influx of personnel with a Scandinavian background led to the creation of the Viking Army Supporters Club.
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After retiring from football, Alcock became the licensee of the Blackpool Supporters Club at Bloomfield Road, before taking on similar positions at pubs in Burscough, Warton and then Wrea Green.
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David Alexander, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 1 March 2013. James McKie scored twice during his only appearance for Scotland, in a 5–2 victory over Wales in 1898.
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The fee of £5,000 was raised for the cash-strapped club by its Supporters' Club. Becoming a full-time professional necessitated giving up a degree course at the University of Greenwich.
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After retiring from playing, Berry gained a business degree and became the senior commercial executive at the Professional Footballers' Association. He is also president of the Stoke City Southern Supporters Club.
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During the 1970s younger supporters organized themselves and in 1981 they formed "Blue Saints", although the first supporters club of Djurgården was DIF Supporters Club, established in 1947. Due to bad publicity, after numerous violent clashes, "Blue Saints" reformed, and in 1997 adopted the name "Järnkaminerna" and undertook an effort to whitewash the supporters club's name. Today "Järnkaminerna" are one of Swedens largest supporters clubs in numbers, and smaller sections are today established outside of Stockholm.
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Ryan Farquhar's fan club, is known as the 77 Supporters Club – Ryan's favoured race entrance number. Members of the club routinely hold "ride outs" on various public road courses, particularly in Ireland.
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Gold Coast United had a relationship with the Gold Coast United Supporters Club (GCUSC), the major supporter group following the club situated in Bay 30 at games during the club's A-League period.
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The Railway End is at the south of the ground. It is an uncovered standing terrace, with a supporters' club, executive boxes and a scoreboard along its top. It is mainly used by away supporters.
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London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 14 May 2013. Grahamston continued to compete in the Stirlingshire Cup until 1889 and played friendly matches for several more years before eventually disbanding in 1896 after going out of business.
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After handing over the role of manager to Bill Dodgin, Dominy remained at The Dell, as chief steward at the Saints supporters club, thus maintaining strong links with Southampton until his death in 1974, aged 81.
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Their home ground is Old Shielfield Park, which the club uses under an agreement with the Berwick Rangers supporters club. Berwick Rangers and Berwick RFC are unique in being English teams that play in Scottish leagues.
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Each of them made their début against Wales, although in different seasons. Archibald Ritchie's one and only Scotland cap came in March 1891 against Wales,Archibald Ritchie, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 17 September 2011.
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In 1935, Haines had become the landlord of the Vine Inn, Frome, Somerset which he ran until 1949. He later moved into the dry cleaning business. In 1960, he became the president of the Portsmouth Supporters Club.
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Some sources suggest he was selected for the Scottish Football League XI,(SFL player) Harry Wilson, London Hearts Supporters Club but the player involved was Robert Wilson who joined Partick almost at the same time Harry departed.
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New Jersey Ironmen Tab Ramos, who played on the MetroStars from 1996 to 2002, was honorary captain for the second home game. Giovanni Savarese, who is the all-time leading goal scorer for the Metros, was the honorary captain for the fourth home game. The Empire Supporters Club, the main supporters club for the New York Red Bulls, was present at every Ironmen home game. New York area Voice Actor/Narrator/Host/Actor Ed Kalegi was the in-house voice of the team and handles the Public Address Announcing at all Home games.
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Foremsky got off to a slow start at the Flames, finding it hard to gel with line mates, but once he found his mark he quickly established himself as a fan-favourite and was instrumental in the Flames regular season championship title. He scored 22+33 in 34 regular season games, being voted Supporters Club Player of the Year, Supporters Club Hall of Fame, Published March, 2008 an extrodinary achievement considering he missed over 2 months of the Flames season. Foremsky then re-signed for another year with Guildford in early May.
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Darlington had an official supporters' club and an away supporters group, known as Darlington Away Far Travelling Supporters (DAFTS), who represented Darlington supporters from places elsewhere in the country. A supporters' trust was founded in 2002; it established a Disabled Supporters Group, tried to maintain a working relationship between club and supporters, and, together with the Darlington Camera Club, staged a "Farewell to Feethams" exhibition in celebration of the club's longtime home. Together with the supporters' club, the trust was actively involved in fund-raising particularly during the club's periods of administration.
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Kumutha Rahman (Tamil: குமுதா ரகுமான்) is a Malaysian politician who is a member of the PAS Supporters Club, a club started by the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party (PAS) for its non-Muslim supporters. PAS, by virtue of the party's constitution, admits only Muslims as its members. The setting up of the Supporters Club was seen as a small step to open up the membership of the party to non-Muslims who share its ideology and beliefs. Kumutha is a Hindu and the first non-Muslim to contest for PAS.
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In July 1974 he succeeded Shay Brennan as player-manager of Waterford United. However, in December, after one substitute appearance, Craig informed the club that he was unable to commit to the role due to a "domestic problem". In 2001, he was made Honorary President of the Belfast Shamrock Celtic Supporters Club, which subsequently changed its name to Jim Craig Celtic Supporters Club in 2011. Craig is now actively part of the Celtic community; he has hosted Channel67, an online streaming service which provides video streams and audio streams of every Celtic match.
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Wigan Athletic Official Supporters Club (formally known as Wigan Athletic Supporters Travel Club) is the official supporters' association of Wigan Athletic Football Club. The supporters club are a non- profit organisation run by volunteers and meet before home matches in the South Stand Bar. The Latics' most vocal supporters can be found in the East Stand of the DW Stadium which houses up to 8,206 fans The South Stand of the ground is the family stand. A long-standing song sung by fans of the club is "You Are My Sunshine".
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Anderton has worked as the in-studio analyst for Canadian network TSN's coverage of Euro 2012. In 2013, he was unveiled as the honorary president of Arlington Spurs , a Tottenham Hotspur supporters club based in Arlington, Virginia, USA.
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Scotland football record with players from East Stirlingshire, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 17 March 2013. Between 1891 and 1899, the club competed in regional leagues, including winning the Midland Football LeagueMidland Football League , scottish- football-historical-archive.com.
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East Stirlingshire – League Cup Results, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 11 March 2013. The year beforehand saw the club appoint its most famous manager, Alex Ferguson, who was at the club during 1974 before moving to St Mirren.
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The stadium hosted four Scottish Football League XI representative matches:Player Representative Honours, Partick Thistle History Archive in 1911 versus the Southern League,Mon 02 Oct 1911 SFL 3 Southern League 2, London Hearts Supporters Club 1921 versus the Irish League XI,Wed 26 Oct 1921 SFL 3 Irish League 0, London Hearts Supporters Club and 1954 and 1956 versus the League of Ireland XI;Thu 18 Nov 1954 SFL 5 League Of Ireland 0, London Hearts Supporters ClubWed 26 Sep 1956 SFL 3 League Of Ireland 1, London Hearts Supporters Club the Scottish side won all four matches. An international trial match between a Scotland XI and the British Army was played in 1955. The venue also hosted the annual Glasgow vs Sheffield Inter-City match in 1901, 1954, and 1956. Harry Haddock and Tommy Ring both played in the two latter matches, with Ring also scoring in both.
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Sir Lindsay Parkinson resigned as president, to be replaced by Alderman John Bickerstaff. Also, the Blackpool Supporters' Club was formed, and in its early days boasted a membership of over three hundred.Calley, Roy (1992). Blackpool: A Complete Record 1887–1992, p.
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Supporters' Trust At Reading logo Supporters' Trust at Reading also known as STAR, is the official organisation representing the interests of supporters of Reading Football Club. STAR is the successor to Reading Football Supporters’ Club (RFSC), which was established in 1930.
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He also shared "Cardiff Blues Supporters Club Player of the Year" honors with Kristen Dacey. Scully signed a contract extension with the club in late 2017. On 9 May 2019 Cardiff announced Scully was to leave the club that summer.
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Persibo Bojonegoro have always enjoyed loyal and passionate support. Most fans come from Bojonegoro and around Part west of East Java. They called themselves as Boromania or Bojonegoro Mania. their great enemy is the supporters club Persela Lamongan, LA Mania.
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In 1932 and 1933 she was a vice-president of the Supporters Club of the Clapton Orient Football Club and worked closely with Herbert Morrison MP in support of Clapton Orient. Source: Neilson N. Kaufman, honorary historian Leyton Orient FC.
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While at Kilmarnock, was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in September 1933.SFL player Bud Maxwell, London Hearts Supporters Club The SFL lost 3–0 to the Irish League XI in Belfast, and of the 11 picked by the Scots (seven of whom were making their debuts), only one was selected again.Sat 30 Sep 1933 Irish League 3 SFL 0, London Hearts Supporters Club He was on a reserve list for a Scotland fixture a few months later, but never made a full international appearance. His father had also played for the SFL XI on a single occasion (1907).
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One Toronto fan was tasered by Columbus police. That same weekend, a riot was narrowly avoided at a packed Giants Stadium as members of the New York Red Bulls supporters club, Empire Supporters Club (ESC), and members of the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority security force clashed over what the ESC claimed was unfair and repeated mistreatment. Clashes also took place in the parking area around the stadium after the game, involving already ejected-for-life North Jersey Firm (NJF) members, and the New Jersey State Police were called to quell the situation. There were several arrests, mostly of known NJF hooligans.
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The new team was formed from a handful of quickly drafted players, as well scavenging the Cardiff Devils youth teams to make up the numbers under the lower budget. Attendances at games dropped heavily, going from full arenas to typically less than fifty. During the first two seasons under Phillips, large protests and demonstrations were commonplace outside games, with initially hundreds of supporters club members appearing outside the arena. While eventually the supporters club would reconcile with Bob Phillips and some of the old players would make goodwill appearances, the team's best years were clearly behind them.
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The majority of both teams' supporters reacted negatively to the merger proposal. While many Oxford supporters acknowledged that Maxwell had been instrumental in saving the club the previous year, most perceived merging with another club as tantamount to killing both Oxford United and professional football in the city. A spokesman for the Oxford United Supporters Club called the idea "crazy and unworkable". Most Reading fans likewise reacted to the scheme with revulsion; Mike Habbits, chairman of the Reading Supporters Club, said "Our fans can't stand Oxford fans and I can't see them travelling to Oxford to watch the new team".
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This flourished in the 1970s and 1980s, giving birth to some of the most well-known Swedish supporters clubs, AIK's Black Army, Djurgårdens IF's Blue Saints (later Järnkaminerna), and IFK Göteborg's supporters club, Änglarna (the Angels). The first attempt to found an IFK supporters club was made in 1969, but interest diminished when IFK Göteborg were relegated from the highest league the following year. The supporters club was not re-founded until 1973, which is considered the year of foundation of Änglarna. As the club gained success in European club tournaments in the 1980s and 1990s, and thousands of IFK fans travelled to Hamburg, Barcelona, Dundee, Milan, Manchester and Munich, the supporters gained influence on the club, for example by lending money to the almost bankrupt IFK Göteborg so the team could go to Valencia to play the quarter-final in the UEFA Cup in 1982, or by being the main force behind the move back to Gamla Ullevi in 1992.
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Since moving to the City of Manchester Stadium, Manchester City's average attendances have been in the top six in England, usually in excess of 40,000. Even in the late 1990s, when the club were relegated twice in three seasons and playing in the third tier of English football (then Division Two, now Football League One), home attendances were in the region of 30,000, compared to an average for the division of fewer than 8,000. Research carried out by Manchester City in 2005 estimates a fanbase of 886,000 in the United Kingdom and a total in excess of 2 million worldwide, although since the purchase of the club by Sheikh Mansour and the club's recent trophies, that figure has ballooned to many times that size. (archive.org mirror) Manchester City's officially recognised supporters club is the Manchester City F.C. Supporters Club (1949), formed from a merger of two existing organisations in 2010: the Official Supporters Club (OSC) and the Centenary Supporters Association (CSA).
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London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 11 March 2013. The year beforehand saw the club appoint its most famous manager, Alex Ferguson, who was at the club during 1974 before moving to St Mirren.Club History - 1970-2000 , East Stirlingshire F.C.. Retrieved 1 March 2013.
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The Red Devils, Korea Republic national football team supporters club also started with many of its members from the Grand Bleu. Original of the famous football chant "대~한 민국!(Dae~han Minguk!) is Grand Blue's chant "수~원 삼성!(Su~won Samsung!).
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He is the last East Stirlingshire player to be capped by his country. Murray Brown was a steadfast defender during the late 90s having performed to a high standard at West Bromwich Albion during his teenage years.James McKie, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club.
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In an attempt to increase crowd sizes at The Dell, the Southampton Supporters Club offered to pay admission for unemployed supporters; however, with the exception of the following week's fixture against Tottenham Hotspur, attendance exceeded 8,000 just once more during the season.
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William Russell (born 1903) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right half for Chelsea and Heart of Midlothian.Willie Russell, Stamford- Bridge.comAppearances Qa-Rz Willie Russell, Bounder Friardale(Hearts player) Willie Russell, London Hearts Supporters Club His son Billy was also a footballer.
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Bonnybridge Grasshoppers – Scottish Cup Results, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 13 May 2013. Grasshoppers went on to compete in the tournament for nine more seasons, the last in 1890–91 when its heaviest defeat of 12–1 was inflicted by Union of Dumbarton.
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His successful season was rewarded when he was voted Young Player of the Year by the United supporters club, was runner up to Matthew Kilgallon in the senior Player of the Year award and was included in the Championship PFA Team of the Year.
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In Nigeria, these performers are occasionally conspicuous with their military uniforms or they may be members of the Football Supporters Club. A popular chant among supporters from all over the country, after a goal scored, is "Oshe Baba!", which means "Thank you father!" in Yoruba.
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He is a member of the Gorsedd of Bards, patron of Caernarfon Rugby Club, an Honorary Life Member of Caernarfon Town F.C. Supporters Club, the Honorary President of GISDA (Gwynedd charity for homeless young people), and the Vice President of the Caernarfon Male Voice Choir.
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Neville in 2012 Ahead of his testimonial in 2011, Neville revealed he would spend the proceeds towards a supporters club and hotel near Old Trafford. Despite objections from Manchester United, Neville's plans were approved in 2012. In 2013, Neville and Ryan Giggs launched a hospitality company named GG Hospitality, with plans to build football-themed hotels and cafés around the United Kingdom, initially in Manchester and London. The first operation was a football-themed restaurant named Café Football in Stratford, London, which opened in November 2013, with Hotel Football, previously under the guise of the supporters club Neville announced in 2011, scheduled to be opened in late 2014.
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Following a chance meeting with a British national Manchester City fan, Armani Kamara – who made the connection while selling bric-a-brac on the Freetown beaches – created a Manchester City (UK) supporters club in his home town of Freetown. Shortly after, off the back of the popularity of his supporters club, he made the decision to create two teams – a senior team and an affiliated youth side – which began playing in local leagues. Quickly, the Manchester side themselves offered to help out, and donated official match- worn 2003–04 season kits. Within a year, the youth side won its first competition, a local area cup competition.
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Boots 'N' All is an original British television concept, but an Australian version of the show was broadcast on the Nine Network, hosted by Andrew Voss and Phil Gould. It regularly featured chairman of Bye Supporters club Tim Andrews, and Sydney Roosters mascot Brian the Rooster.
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Shepparton home games are played at Vibert Reserve. The club forms the base of Preston Lions supporters club of country Victoria. Shepparton United :Shepparton United is nicknamed "United" or "The Blues" and is the reigning women's premier of the GNEFA. United's home colours are all blue.
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SFL player Charlie Shaw, London Hearts Supporters Club Shaw went 1,287 minutes in all competitions without conceding a goal; the record was not measured the way it is today, with the time after the first goal and the time before the last goal not being counted.
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The main stand holds home supporters, away supporters, club officials and press. A second stand on the opposite (east) side of the ground, was completed in August 2009. This stand holds the stadium's TV gantry and has brought the seating capacity to 6,000. Both stands are covered.
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Laing is divorced with 1 son (b. 2001). Laing is a fan of Rangers F.C., and is a vice-chairman of the Westminster Parliamentary Rangers Supporters' Club. She was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours List.
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Appropriately for a side that has played its home games from Stanraer to Inverness and Aberdeen to Edinburgh, as well as Glasgow; the fans for the provincial Glasgow side are collectively known as the Warrior Nation. The official supporters club is The XVIth Warrior, founded in 2012.
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In October of that year, the club announced that it had sold 20,000 season tickets for the inaugural season. On April 29, 2017, NYCSC (New York City Supporters Club) was recognized as the club's second official supporters group. On February 13, 2020, NYCFC officially parted ways with NYCSC.
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He was awarded 'Supporters Club Player of the Year' and 'Junior Stones Player of the Year' in May 2017 at the end of his first season for the club. As of April 2019 he was combining his playing career with Wealdstone with youth coaching at first club Tottenham Hotspur.
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By combining supporters club benefits and membership levels with supporters trust infrastructure and philosophy STAR was able to gain strength and credibility quickly. Since its beginning it has met regularly with the senior management team of the club and, as a shareholder, attended all the football club's AGMs.
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Komolong is of German and PNG parentage. He is the son of Birte and Dr. Miok Komolong. Dr. Komolong has served as the president of Madang FC and chairman of the PNG Football Supporters Club. Some of his grandparents, cousins, and other family live in Hütten, Schleswig-Holstein.
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After a season with Accies he retired. Rutherford was capped once by Scotland, in 1948, a 3–0 friendly home defeat to France.(Scotland player) Edward Rutherford, London Hearts Supporters Club After retiring from football he ran a newsagents in Rutherglen. He died on 29 June 2007, aged 86.
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The Cardiff City F.C. Player of the Year award is voted for annually by Cardiff City's supporters, in recognition of the best overall performance by an individual player throughout the football season. The award is set up by the Cardiff City Supporters' Club during the 1997-98 season.
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In 1928, a supporters' club was in operation during the existence of Chelmsford F.C., the town's former amateur club. With branches in the Essex towns of Braintree, Maldon and Witham, the supporters' club had built up enough funding to improve the terracing at New Writtle Street and purchase houses to accommodate players that did not already live local to Chelmsford. On 31 August 1939, "a number of small fights" broke out, according to the Essex County Standard, following Chelmsford's 2–1 win against Colchester United at Layer Road. During the club's Southern League stay, Chelmsford regularly drew attendances of over 3,000 in the late 1950s, reaching a seasonal high average attendance of 4,438 during the 1960–61 season.
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UFC fighter Dan Hardy has used the song "England Belongs to Me" as his walk-out music. "Take 'em All" has a long history of being sung by Major League Soccer supporter groups, including the Empire Supporters Club, Garden State Ultras And Viking Army Supporters Club for the New York Red Bulls and the Emerald City Supporters for the Seattle Sounders FC. In 2012, Cock Sparrer marked their 40th anniversary along with Rancid who were celebrating their 20th anniversary. They played five sold-out concerts in the United States (two in Philadelphia, one in Boston, and two in San Francisco) and headlined the Christmas Bash in Birmingham as part of the Rebellion Festival on 8 December 2012.
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The Old Priory Barn was purchased by the Somerset CCC Supporters Club when it became available in 1979, as the cricket club was unable to afford it at the time. Over the next ten years the building was restored, and in April 1989 the museum was officially opened to the public.
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From 2009 to 2016 The Chicago Tafia partnered with the owners of the iconic Wrigley Building to illuminate the tower red, white, and green (the colours of the Welsh flag) on Saint Davids Day on Sunday, March 1. An offshoot of the Chicago Tafia is the Chicago Swansea City Supporters Club.
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The following season saw the formation of the supporters' club. In 1925 the club's first foreign transfer took place as William Shaw was signed from Barcelona. A new ground record was set for the F.A. Cup third- round replay with Sunderland, 21,148 turned up to see the Cobblers lose 3–0.
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Walker played five times for Scotland.Scotland player Johnny Walker, London Hearts Supporters Club He made his debut in an 1895 British Home Championship match against Ireland, scoring two goals in the 3–1 victory at Celtic Park. He also represented the Scottish League XI five times, while he was with Hearts and Rangers.
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The South Stand is reserved for away supporters and can hold a capacity of 1,400. The stand also has an electronic scoreboard in the centre of the roof, which was installed in 2001, making it visible to home supporters. The scoreboard was replaced in October 2011. Behind the stand is the supporters' club.
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After leaving the Stoke job, he quit professional football completely, and emigrated to South Africa in 1978. He set up his own sportswear business as well as being a football coach for local black children (being a noted opponent of Apartheid). He is also chairman of the South African Arsenal Supporters' Club.
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Mark McGhee returned in October 2015 before being sacked in March 2017 after a poor run of results. On 28 October 2016, Motherwell became a fan-owned club when supporters club Well Society's £1 deal with Les Hutchison was concluded. On 13 October 2017, Manager Stephen Robinson extended his contract until May 2020.
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Archibald "Archie" Ritchie (born 12 April 1872)Archibald Ritchie - Scotland football record from 21 Mar 1891: clubs - East Stirlingshire, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 30 April 2015. was a Scottish footballer who played as a defender for East Stirlingshire, Nottingham Forest, Bristol Rovers, Swindon Town and the Scotland national football team.
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"Lebari" are the supporters of the Radoviš sport clubs. The supporters club "Lebari" (Macedonian: Лебари) was formed in 1991. They generally support all clubs in Radoviš, and mostly wear green and yellow simbols, which are the group colours. In the past and now, Radoviš rightly carries the attribute of a sports city.
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Logo of the supporter club Supporter stand at Stockholms Stadion Supporter stand at Hovet Järnkaminerna (lit. The Iron Stoves) is the largest official supporter club of the sports club Djurgårdens IF. Järnkaminerna is also a nickname for the sports club itself. A common shortened form of the supporters club Järnkaminerna is JK.
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Manchester City F.C. (Sierra Leone), known as just Manchester City F.C. or Manchester City (Salone) in their home country, is a Sierra Leonean football club based in Freetown, Sierra Leone, currently a member of the Sierra Leone National First Division, the second highest division of football league in Sierra Leone. Founded in 2004, the club is an offshoot of the local Manchester City F.C. supporters club, which as of 2009 was the largest non-UK based Manchester City supporters club in the world. Previously not self-sufficient, the club funds itself via using the team mini-bus, donated by UK-based supporters, as a rental taxi/coach service although all kit is donated by other Manchester City (UK) supporters clubs and the English club themselves.
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Born in Coatbridge, Jock White was one of four brothers who played top-class football — Willie was a goalkeeper with Hamilton Academical, Hearts and Southampton, Tom a winger who played with HeartsTom White, London Hearts Supporters Club and Alloa Athletic, and Jimmy aka 'Tec' a forward with Albion Rovers (playing alongside Jock in the 1920 Scottish Cup Final which Albion lost to Kilmarnock), Motherwell and in the United States.Jimmy White, MotherWELLnet All four brothers played together for Hearts in the Lord Provost's Rent Relief Cup final of 1923 which their side won through two goals from Jock.Tue 15 May 1923 Hearts 2 Hibernian 1, London Hearts Supporters' Club He was also the brother-in-law of Andrew Anderson, a team-mate at Hearts for four seasons.
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Founded in 2014, the Capitol City Supporters, or "Cap City" for short, is the independent supporters club for the Madison 56ers SC. Cap City prides itself creating a culture that shows passion for the 56ers and the city of Madison. The Red Rebels were an earlier supporters group dedicated to the 56ers and Wisconsin Badgers.
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There was a "disappointing" turnout of only 9,000 because of the pouring rain; in those days the supporters' club had 4,000 members. The early Whitehaven team were nicknamed "the Colliers" because of the Miners' Welfare connection. In a Britain that still was still recovering from wartime rationing and austerity Whitehaven gradually picked itself up.
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On the financial side, a large transfer credit helped the club record a gross profit of £7,120. Gate receipts had declined to £25,831, whilst wages had risen to £16,095. The Burslem Supporters Club put forward a donation of £600, and the club issued 22,000 new five shilling shares to help with the New Ground Fund.
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He later returned to Norwich as a director of the club, and also served as Honorary President of the Norfolk Arsenal Supporters Club. He also represented his country at clay pigeon shooting and was a keen player of lawn bowls. He died in 1999, eight days short of what would have been his 86th birthday.
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Their away colours varied over the years, with predominantly yellow colours being used in later years. Prior to 1971 the club played in plain shirts with no crest. A depiction of a Herefordshire bull was introduced for the 1971–72 season with H.U.F.C. lettering underneath. A supporters' club crest was also used during the 1970s.
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The stand also has an electronic scoreboard in the centre of the roof, which was installed in 2001, making it visible to home supporters. The scoreboard was replaced in October 2011. Behind the stand is the supporters' club. A new set of floodlights were installed before the start of the club's 2007–08 campaign.
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Atromitos are based in western Athens and their main supporters club is called "Fentagin". Founded in 1980, they have a space underneath the stands. They are dedicated to support the local football club and their anti-fascist and anti-racist ideas and actions. The younger element of the support are known as the "Little Atoms".
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After Nikos Georgeas left AEK, Arabatzis became the eldest player of the team having completed ten years in the team."MVP Supporters Club", 18/09/2011 - Giannis Arabatzis On 2012-13 Superleague Greece season AEK relegated to Football League 2(Greece National Third Division), and Giannis' contract with AEK expired on 30 June 2013.
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The Bristol Pitbulls are an ice hockey team representing Bristol, England, currently playing in the NIHL 2 South West Division. However, due to the closure of Bristol Ice Rink in 2012, they currently play all of their home games at Oxford Ice Rink. The team has an active official supporters' club, known as The Pack.
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The club, originally named Ethnikos Astir, was founded in 1927 from the merger of Ethnikos and Asteras Kaisariani. They participated in the Greek first division from 1998 until 2002. Ethnikos Asteras is also known as Asteras FC a name related to the Warriors, Kaisariani's ultra supporters club. The club's colors are red and white.
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It was revealed however that the move was funded by a supporters' club. Weale headed in a late equaliser to earn Yeovil a 2–2 draw at home to his former side, Hereford on 21 April 2009. The goal won Sky Sports goal of the week beating the likes of Andrei Arshavin and Robinho.
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In May 2001, six PSG fans from the Supporters Club, were arrested and charged with assault, carrying weapons, throwing items on the pitch and racism. The six were alleged to have deliberately entered a part of the Parc des Princes stadium where French fans of Turkish origin were standing, in order to attack them.
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Feyenoord have one official fan supporters club, the Feyenoord Supportersvereniging.De Feyenoord Supportersvereniging , feyenoord.nl The FSV is completely independent and as of 2006 has a membership of about 23,000. The FSV aim to cater for the wishes and needs of Feyenoord fans, and also operate as a bridge for better communication between the club and fans.
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Jefferies made more than 300 competitive appearances for Heart of Midlothian.Jim Jefferies, London Hearts Supporters' Club. The main highlight of his playing career was playing in the 1976 Scottish Cup Final, which Hearts lost 3–1 to Rangers.A turbulent end to otherwise tranquil and successful eight years for Jim Jefferies, The Scotsman, 12 January 2010.
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Thomas Henry Cavanagh (29 June 1928 – 14 March 2007) was an English footballer and coach. As a player, he was an inside-forward at six professional clubs, most notably Huddersfield Town, Doncaster Rovers and was player manager at Cheltenham Town, where he was sacked as manager for swearing during matches after complaints by two supporters' club members.
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In 2004, several Villa firms were involved in a fight with QPR fans outside Villa Park in which a steward died. The main groupings of supporters can now be found in a number of domestic and international supporters' clubs. This includes the Official Aston Villa Supporters Club which also has many smaller regional and international sections.
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" On 6 June, after Corinthians lost to Cruzeiro 1–0, Pato was criticised again by Fiel, the largest Corinthians supporters' club. The former milanista missed four goal chances, and once again was defended by Tite. According to the coach, "He's improved in precision. I asked for this after the game against Ponte Preta: 'Target for goal'.
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A team called Manchester United Supporters Club Ladies began operations in the late 1970s and was unofficially recognised as the club's senior women's team. They became founding members of the North West Women's Regional Football League in 1989. The team became increasingly competitive throughout the 90s at various levels of the FA Women's National League up until 2001.
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Since its original construction, the ground has been periodically updated with new features or fittings. A cover on the Shrivenham Road side was erected in 1932, followed by the current roof at the Town End. This cost £4,300, which was raised by the Supporters' Club, and was opened on 27 August 1938 by local MP, W.W. Wakefield.
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Despite this return, Parnaby went on to make 23 appearances for the club. As a result, Parnaby was awarded the Supporters' Club Young Player of the Year award. Parnaby was also awarded with a new contract with the club, keeping him until June 2007. In the 2003–04 season, Parnaby was featured for the first four matches.
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David Haddow (12 June 1869 – 14 April 1955) was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper. He won one cap for Scotland, in 1894.(Scotland player) David Haddow, London Hearts Supporters Club In 1890, Haddow was involved in an altercation between players from Airdrieonians and his team, local rivals Albion Rovers. The charge was not proven.
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These departments represent about 10% of the club membership. HSV is one of the biggest sports clubs in Germany with over 84,000 members in all its departmentsHSV Supporters Club – graph shows "gesamt" (entire membership) as 70,000-plus . Retrieved 25 October 2013. and stated by Forbes to have been among the 20 largest football clubs in the world.
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He has received two distinguished honours from Stockport's supporters since leaving the club – being elected to the Stockport Hall of Fame and as Honorary Vice President of the Hatters Independent Supporters Club. His 479 club appearances puts him in third spot in Stockport's all-time appearance list and his 65 goals are ninth in their scoring records.
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Of the applications for Third Division South election, Gillingham polled 44 votes, Colchester 28, Worcester City 11, Chelmsford City 8, Peterborough United 5 and Merthyr Tydfil and Yeovil Town just one vote each. Colchester United were elected to the Football League with a Supporters Club membership of over 16,000 and an average gate of over 8,500.
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He is the vice president of the Carlisle United Supporters Club London Branch. Bragg is a relative of Sir William Henry Bragg and his son Sir Lawrence Bragg, who were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1915 for their work in x-ray crystal structure analysis. He presented a Radio 4 programme on the subject in August 2013.
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They advanced into the playoffs of the Keystone Conference, only to lose against eventual National Cup finalists FC Motown. The inaugural season was widely viewed as a success, as it brought communities in Monmouth County together around the sport of soccer. An official supporters club, "The 732 SC" was founded with its base in Rumson, New Jersey.
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Tohouroglou was born on 13 August 1972 in Sydney to parents from Greece. He joined his family when they returned to Greece in 1983. He played at three Greek teams as head goalkeeper and was goalkeeper coach at another. . Kyriakos Tohouroglou is an Honorary Life Member of Melbourne Club PAOK, The official PAOK Thessaloniki Supporters Club of Australia.
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Livingston ran out 6–1 winners and MacDonald was awarded Man of the Match. At the end of season 2009–10 MacDonald was awarded both the Livingston FC Player of the Year and supporters club Livi Lions Player of the Year awards. MacDonald requested to leave Livingston in January 2012 and had his contract cancelled by mutual consent.
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They have equipment such as drums, megaphone, flags, banners and more. Both players and fans love the atmosphere they create. It is open for young supporters from the age of 11-17 that support the Warriors. The club also draws much international support: the Norwegian Supporters' Club is a small supporters' organisation based in Oslo, Norway.
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The Denmark-based supporters club is an unofficial Warriors fan club founded and established in the summer 2000. The fan club has approximately 30 members. Stenhousemuir Supporters Trust, also known as The 'Warriors Supports Trust' is registered with the Financial Services Agency as a not-for-profit Industrial and Provident Society. It was established in 2003.
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The 1955–56 season was unremarkable on the pitch but did see further advances around the ground as Carshalton Athletic's success of recent season was reflected in the size of the supporters club with over 2000 members. It was also the club's last appearance in the Corinthian League as the summer of 1956 saw election to the Athenian League.
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McLean received one cap for Scotland, in a 1912 British Home Championship match against England.Sat 23 Mar 1912 Scotland 1 England 1, London Hearts Supporters Club While based in England, he took part in five Home Scots v Anglo-Scots trial matches between 1910 and 1920, scoring four times, with further international opportunities limited by the war.
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West Ham's manager Alan Curbishley, was furious initially accusing Jacobson of conducting himself maliciously, however this was dismissed with a written apology to Jacobson when Curbishley saw the tackle again.BBC (2007) Curbishley fury at Dyer leg break, 29 August. Retrieved 30 August 2007. Awarded Bristol Rovers Supporters Club Young Player of the Year Award 2007–08.
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Sat 09 Apr 1938 England 0 Scotland 1, London Hearts Supporters' Club. Smith was one of five Preston players to play for Scotland in that match. The outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939 effectively curtailed Smith's playing career. Smith continued to play for Preston during the War, and also played in one wartime international against England.
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The inaugural Skerries 100 race was on Saturday 6 July, 1946. In the early years the race was run by a local development committee, and the Dublin and District Motor Cycle Club ran the event each year until 1986 when they handed it over to Loughshinny Motor Cycle Supporters Club who for a number of previous years had been providing local volunteers for running of the event. Since 1987 the Loughshinny Motor Cycle Supporters Club have been running the event. In 2009, a major bend on the course was renamed from 'Dublin Corner' to Finnegan's Corner to honour Irish motorcycle road racer Martin Finnegan, who died in 2008 as a result of a crash during a race at the Tandragee 100 meeting on another road course in County Armagh.
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However the project did not go ahead and following much deliberation towards the end of 2008 it was decided that the financial position of Kilkenny made it no longer viable to operate. After the meeting on 30 January 2009 the track closed its doors until further notice. However a group of local owners, breeders and supporters got together forming the Kilkenny Track Supporters Club and re-opened Kilkenny on 17 May 2009, they met with the IGB and agreed a funding policy and re-laid the entire track surface in addition to installing new rails and a new hare system. Despite the small nature of the track it is regarded as an important contributor to the local economy and is still supported strongly by the same Kilkenny Track Supporters Club.
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An early fan club was the Spurs Supporters Club, formed independently by fans in 1948 but became officially recognised by Tottenham in the early 1960s. It was once the largest supporters club in the country; it had nearly 4,000 members in 1950, over 6,000 in the early 1970s and once reached 10,000 with members from around the world, such as Malta, South Africa, Australia, the United States and the Scandinavian countries. It had its offices in Warmington House in front of the West Stand of White Hart Lane from 1963 to 1989. It organised trips to away matches, and was the first in the country to organise large-scale fans away trips, the biggest during the European Cup- Winners' Cup final in Amsterdam in 1963 for thousands of fans.
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Soca Warriors' supporters before the team's opening 2006 FIFA World Cup match against Sweden The major supporters' group for the national team is the Soca Warriors Supporters Club or the Warrior Nation. The group is a non-profit organisation that is independent of the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association. Formed shortly after Trinidad and Tobago secured qualification for the 2006 FIFA World Cup, the supporters' club was organised by Soca Warriors Online founder Inshan Mohammed and Nigel Myers. The group's activities include promoting teams locally and globally, lobbying the Trinidad and Tobago Football Association as representatives of football fans, advocating fair pricing and allocation of event tickets, organising travel for fans to home and away matches, providing a family-oriented fans' organisation, and promoting football among the young people of Trinidad and Tobago.
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Leeds were subsequently relegated from the Premier League that season, with Robinson conceding 75 goals in 36 matches, being sent off in one match. He made 119 appearances in total for Leeds, 95 in the Premier League, during his seven-year spell at the club, and was also voted Player of the Year by the Leeds United supporters' club in 2003.
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Together with the Supporters Club, we have strong associations with several local schools, North Harbour Special Olympics and the New Zealand Chinese Sports Association to name a few. One of the largest football clubs on Auckland's North Shore, the club aims to use football as a vehicle to provide for the community regardless of age, race, gender, impairment or skill level.
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Sirens Supporters Club (SS.13) is the latest registered supporting club in Malta. The club was founded in 2013 as in that year in 2013-14 Maltese Third Division Sirens FC were in their glory as they won the league title unbeaten and ending the season with a dramatic draw against Swieqi United. Sirens supporters are also called Sirens Ultras 13.
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Despite being relegated, the club was only one of two teams in the league to win both encounters against Aberdeen, one of which was East Stirlingshire's only away league win of the season in a 3–1 victory at Pittodrie in front of 10,000 spectators.Results for East Stirlingshire for 1932-33, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 4 March 2013.
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Also, the fans have sympathy for all the clubs named "Heracles" worldwide, most notably the Spanish Hércules CF. Since 2003, fans of both teams formed a friendship through the internet. There is even a Hércules CF supporters club that bears the name "Iraklis", in honor of their friendship.El Hércules proyecta su imagen en otros tres equipos europeos . Noticia de 2005 de La Verdad.
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In October 2009, NUST launched its 'Local Achievers' scheme, in conjunction with the Evening Chronicle. The scheme rewards people in the local community, who have been nominated by Newcastle fans with tickets to Newcastle United home games. Examples of local achievers include three teenagers who formed their own junior Newcastle United supporters club, charity fundraisers, and a youth football coach.
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Purdon was a founder member and honorary president of Sunderland's North American supporters' club. In company with fellow supporters he had just watched on television Sunderland beating Burnley in the game which almost clinched the club's 2007 promotion to the Premier League when he suffered a stroke. He died in a Toronto hospital two days later at the age of 77.
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The supporters' club of Woodlands Wellington Football Club are known as The Black Sheep. They can be seen at both home and away games dressed in the club's official colours of yellow and blue and are usually seated behind the Rams' dugout. Since its inception, The Black Sheep have been using the warcry "Never Surrender!" to rally their players on.
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The original North Wales Coasters formed in 1989 and joined the nearest district association which was Widnes in England. They played in the North West Counties Division 5 with home games played in Llandudno. Their first game was against Bradford Northern supporters club. They later also played at Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan, Abergele Sports centre and Parc Eirias in Colwyn Bay.
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Louis Appéré was born in Perth on 26 March 1999. He grew up in Cupar, Fife, where he attended Bell Baxter High School. He started playing football for East Fife Junior Supporters' Club at the age of 9 and later spent two years as a youth player with Dunfermline Athletic. He then joined Cupar-based AM Soccer, progressing through from the youth system.
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St Bernard's hoped that they would be allowed to play at their ground until they could find themselves a new venue, but once the stand was acquired Leith Athletic promptly refused. The St Bernard's Supporters Club started a successful boys club in 1947, but all other attempts to resurrect the club failed, and in 1951 the St Bernard's Supporters Club voted to disband and its funds to be used to provide an annual competition — the St Bernard's Cup — for local primary schools in the Edinburgh area. Both the St Bernard's Cup and the St Bernard's Boys Club continue to this day, there has also been forays by St Bernard's into running sides in various local amateur leagues. In the 2017/18 season, the Saturday amateur team won the East of Scotland cup, one of the most prestigious trophies in the amateur game.
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He had played 278 senior matches for the club, of which 251 came in the Football League. In 1970, Kennedy was the first to receive Lincoln City's Supporters' Club Player of the Season award. He remained with the club for a time as a youth coach, and played for Lincoln United in the Yorkshire League. A cartilage operation put an end to his playing career.
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For the following two seasons, Grangemouth was drawn against Slamannan in the first round; losing 5–3 in 1888 but winning 8–0 a year later to progress to the second round for the first time. Grangemouth went on to beat Camelon and Kilsyth Wanderers before losing to eventual finalists Vale of Leven in the fourth round.Grangemouth – Scottish Cup Results, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club.
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Thomas Ewing (born 2 May 1937) is a Scottish former professional footballer. He represented the Scottish Football League XISFL player Thomas Ewing, London Hearts Supporters Club and was capped twice by Scotland. Ewing, a left-winger, played for Birkenshaw Welfare Hearts and Larkhall Thistle before joining Partick Thistle. He won both of his Scotland caps while with Partick, against England and Wales in 1958.
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Another outstanding season with the Stags in 2011, in which they regained the Ranfurly Shield from Canterbury, saw him named Stags player of the year and also Southland Supporters Club player of the year for the second year. In 2013, Hardie again won the Stags player of the year and also the players player title. In 2014, he again won player of the year title.
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Coentje, the mascot of the Kameraadjes Feyenoord have one official fan supporters club, the Feyenoord Supportersvereniging.De Feyenoord Supportersvereniging , feyenoord.nl Independent of the club, FSV has a membership of about 23,000, as of 2006. The FSV act as a liaison between club and fans, produce match programmes, arrange travel to away games and organise supporters' evenings, as well as being involved in the other supporters organisations.
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Bert Herdman was manager of Raith Rovers F.C. from 1945 to 1961. He presided over one of the most sustained periods of success in the club's history. Raith spent 14 years in the top division while he was manager, despite regularly losing talented young players to English clubs. Herdman was appointed as manager in 1945, and was also treasurer of the supporters' club at the time.
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East Stirlingshire spent one season in its first spell in the top flight, ending the year bottom of the league in 20th with seventeen points.Results for East Stirlingshire for 1932–33, londonhearts.com. London Hearts Supporters' Club. Retrieved 4 March 2013. Back in Division Two in the 1935–36 season, the club's heaviest league defeat of 12–1 was inflicted by Dundee United in April 1936.
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After having nurtured and encouraged so much young talent on Merseyside, there was great disappointment at the loss of the facility for young people. By 1998 a devoted group of supporters founded the New Everyman Youth Theatre. Launched with funds from the Everyman Supporters Club — including many high-profile members — the group continued with the help of grants, donations and revenue from ticket sales.
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It comprises a selection of the letters exchanged between Courtenay and his mother, interspersed with his own recollections of life as a young student actor in London in the early 1960s. Courtenay is the President of Hull City AFC's Official Supporters' Club. In 1999, Courtenay was awarded an honorary doctorate by Hull University. In January 2018 he was bestowed the Honorary Freedom of the City of Hull.
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GodsetUnionen is the supporters' club for the Norwegian football club Strømsgodset Toppfotball "Unionen" was founded in 1997, and was (like the name says) a Union between Fugleberget (S.U.S) and Strømsgodset Supporterklubb. In 1998, GodsetUnionen had approximately 1300 members, and was one of the biggest and best supporters clubs in Norway. From 1998 and until 2005, things got worse for Strømsgodset, and also for GodsetUnionen.
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Although the pink shirts were never used in a competitive fixture, they were worn for a pre-season friendly against Plymouth Argyle in 2006. A pirate features on both the club badge and the badge of the supporters club, reflecting the club nickname of The Pirates. Previous club badges have featured a blue and white quartered design, based on the quartered design of the team's jerseys.
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West Brom fans and players celebrate together with the "Boing Boing" chant. The official West Bromwich Albion Supporters Club was founded on 4 October 1951. In the years since then, over 30 branches have been established throughout the United Kingdom and in Jersey, Ireland, Spain, Malta, India, Thailand and Australia. There are also supporters groups for those with disabilities, Punjabi supporters and LGBT people.
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Drum Major II recorded a fiftieth track win in 1961 and in 1964 the Oxfordshire Stakes was introduced. In 1967 Oxford was one of the first four tracks to be awarded an inaugural BAGS (Bookmakers Afternoon Greyhound Service) contract along with Hackney, Kings Heath and Park Royal. The decade ended with new investment which saw a new supporters club building constructed, it would be used for functions.
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The village Memorial Hall in the heart of the village provides accommodation for many of our activities, and funds raised by a new supporters club, as well as money from other sources, has enabled a programme of repair and redecoration to take place. Tewin does not have a railway station of its own, however Welwyn North, operated by First Capital Connect, is within 2 miles away.
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The new stand, which opened in season 1996–97, was subsequently named as the Norway Stand due to a sponsorship deal with Stenhousemuir's Norwegian supporters' club. It is now the only seated accommodation available at the ground, as the old main stand opposite had to be demolished in April 1999 after being refused a safety certificate. The north side of the ground is now largely used for car-parking.
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Despite the best efforts of Mr Bellerby and the long-standing chairman of the Supporters' Club John Daborn, it was soon announced that the club was to merge with Dorking and play at Meadowbank. The final game at Joseph's Road was played on 12 February 1974 when the City beat Folkestone 2–0 in front of 625 fans. After 53 years senior football at Joseph's Road had come to an end.
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The first design and colours in 1995 was red and white in the center with a circle and one ball that formed the badge of the club. In 2000, the colors were changed by the new president of the club in purple and light blue, but early in the 2008–09 season at the initiative of the leadership of Gjilan's supporters club (Falcons), back before the club colors.
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Richard Greer is a former motorcycle speedway riderLawson,K (2018) “Riders, Teams and Stadiums”. in the 1970s and 1980s. Richard played ice hockey for 15 years for a veterans team, in countries such as Czech Republic, Canada, Ireland, Holland and Germany. Keeping a connection to speedway, he attends Peterborough meetings where he is the Centre Green Meeting Co-Ordinator, and is the president of Peterborough Speedway Supporters Club.
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He played for Notts Public Schools while a pupil at the West Bridgford School in the 1930s. This took him during tournaments to nearby Trent Bridge, Nottingham's Test arena. He continued to be a regular visitor to international and county cricket matches at Trent Bridge after his career there, where he was instrumental in setting up the supporters' club. Clay served in the RAF in London during the Second World War.
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Thomas Tait (20 November 1908 – 1976) was an English footballer. He played for Sunderland, Hetton, Middlesbrough, Southport, Manchester City, Bolton Wanderers, Luton Town, Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic, Reading and Torquay United. When Tommy joined Reading, £200 of his fee was provided by the supporters club. He scored a hat-trick on debut away at local rivals Aldershot, and was top scorer for the club on his first four seasons.
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A pitched roof was erected along the main entrance at the Devonport End of the ground, to provide cover for supporters using that terrace. The new grandstand incorporated players changing rooms and club offices. Many of these facilities were built with funds provided by the official supporters club. By the 1930s the ground was regularly hosting crowds in excess of 20,000 and on 10 October 1936 the record attendance was set.
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Most of his goals (including three of the four he scored for Scotland) came from the penalty spot and he missed only one penalty-kick in his career. Further research has shown that Charlie missed at least 6 penalties for Hearts.All Hearts Penalties, London Hearts Supporters Club Thomson captained Hearts to a 1–0 victory over Third Lanark in the 1906 Scottish Cup Final,Association Football. The Scottish Final.
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After a great season, Tidser was nominated for the 2012–13 First Division Player of the Year. It got better for Tidser when he won the supporters' club awards. In June 2013, Tidser was the subject of a £50k bid from Rotherham United, which was rejected by Morton chairman Douglas Rae at first. Soon the bid was made again, but this time it was accepted five days later.
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Sliema Wanderers have their own supporters' group, the Sliema Wanderers Supporters Club. 2010 marked the club's 20th anniversary. The supporters' group was started by Joe Debono and Mario Avallone, and the group's clubhouse is in Manwel Dimech Street, known as 'The Lazy Corner'. In 2008, a group of young Sliema fans formed the group known as Sliema Ultras Blue Gladiators 2008, better known as (Sliema Ultras '08 or SUBG'08).
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Traquair separated from her husband in 2007 and later divorced.Exclusive - Scots newsreader Isla Traquair moving on from Five Daily Record Traquair's interests out of work include films, music, golf, drumming, swimming, skiing, painting, and cooking. She loves baking cakes and has on occasion baked specially designed cakes for her celebrity guests. Traquair is a lifelong fan of Arsenal and is a member of the Arsenal Scotland Supporters Club.
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Ian S. Wood, Crimes of loyalty: a history of the UDA, pp.249–250 Rea later founded the 1st Shankill Northern Ireland Supporters' Club, and acted as its treasurer.Alan Erwin, "Fans back Lennon decision to quit", Irish Independent, 23 August 2003 In 2011, he attended the wake of Michaela McAreavey, where he was warmly embraced by Martin McGuinness. McAreavey was the daughter of Mickey Harte, the Tyrone GAA manager.
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As one of the oldest football clubs in Serbia, Vojvodina always had considerable number of supporters. On 15 December 1937, the first organized supporters club was established for a better coordination and harmonization among the Vojvodina fans. It was probably the first organized supporter group in the former Yugoslavia. One of the first organized supports was recorded already on May the 3rd 1931, at the away game against Mačva Šabac.
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Floodlights were installed and officially switched on by Billy Wright on 5 October 1961 before the Football League Cup game against Cardiff City. Shortly after World War Two, concrete terracing and a PA system were introduced. The club bought land to the West side of the ground in the mid-1950s, just before the supporters' club funded the building of the new North Stand, at a cost of £30,000.
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Galatasaray was initially fined $114,000 by UEFA, but it too was eventually reduced to $28,500.[18] In May 2001, six PSG fans from the Supporters Club, were arrested and charged with assault, carrying weapons, throwing items on the pitch and racism. The six were alleged to have deliberately entered a part of the Parc des Princes stadium where French fans of Turkish origin were standing, in order to attack them.
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The AFCA Supportersclub has a reported 42,000 members, as well as a former member on the Board of Administration of Ajax, in Ronald Pieloor. The third official supporters club is the Ajax Business Associates (ABA). Founded in 1991 the ABA is the Business club of Ajax. Members occupy the skyboxes in the Stadium and can make use of the clubs' amenities and luxury suites including the ABA club and lounge.
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Before the foundation of Gate 13 there were various football supporters' clubs all around Greece. The first of these clubs was founded in October 1952 and was called S.F.O.P. (.Φ.Ο.Π., Σύλλογος Φιλάθλων Οπαδών Παναθηναϊκού, Syllogos Filathlon Opadon Panathinaikou, Panathinaikos Supporters Club) and stayed active for an unknown amount of time. Towards the end of the 50s, supporters started getting organized as far as the home and away match support.
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The ground's record attendance was 20,500, and there were plans to create a 35,000 capacity stadium. The supporters' club was later disbanded and ownership of the ground passed to the football club's directors. In the 1970s the ground was sold with the intent to move back to Horsley Hill. However, a deal had not been finalised to buy Horsley Hill before Simonside Hall was sold, leaving the club was left homeless.
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The next development in March 2012 was a move by Gulu district local council to assume management and financing of the club with the emphasis being on youth. ‘United for United’, the Supporters Club of Gulu United was established using the slogan The Biggest Little Football Club in the World. Their goal is to help revive football in the region, starting with youth, in war-torn northern Uganda.
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Red Bull Arena during a Hudson River Derby Match The Red Bulls have designated some sections of Red Bull Arena as supporter specific. These included sections 101 for the Empire Supporters Club and 102 for the Viking Army. Sections 133, 101, and 102 are collectively known as the "South Ward".New York Red Bulls: Home: Home The Red Bulls had 11,000 season ticket holders for the 2016 MLS Season.
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The theatre went on to experience financial difficulties throughout the late 1950s. Attempts to remedy these difficulties included subscription- based ticket sales, the opening of a membership-only licensed bar, and a Supporters' Club dance. While these activities were successful in their own right, they did little to improve the financial situation of the theatre. In April 1957, Gibson announced that he was closing the theatre for the summer.
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Trefor Jones (1996). The Watford Football Club Illustrated Who's Who. T.G. Jones. p. 91. . When Watford moved from Cassio Road, this end of the ground featured a roof over a cinder bank, and over the years the roof eventually had to be removed for safety reasons. The Supporters' Club eventually raised funds to enable the Rookery End to feature concrete terracing under cover, and this aim was realised in 1959.
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The Millennium Stadium was intended to be a neutral venue but commentators on the day remarked that it could hardly be counted as such. In North America there is an official supporters club called Munster Rugby USA. Munster played in the most attended semi-final match of the Heineken Cup. 82,208 spectators attended their 2008–09 Heineken Cup semi-final against Irish rivals Leinster, which was played in Croke Park, Dublin.
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The team was founded in 2000 by Denis Starke during the dragon races in Hannover which takes place yearly on Whitsundays. The team's name is based upon the variety of sports players who have been the core of the team at the early beginning. The paddlers were chosen for the team Verein zur Förderung des Spitzensports (Supporters club of top sports). This organization supported top sportsmen and women in many different sport activities.
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In October 2016, Salford unveiled plans to renovate the ground to comply with standards of the Football League, which would increase the capacity to 5,100. The plans included terraced stands behind the goals, a supporters' club with a capacity of 600, and executive seating. In December, it was revealed Salford faced objections from hundreds of local residents, and the newly-formed Kersal Moor Residents' Association. about the club's proposals, with worries over traffic and parking.
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The single temporary stand fully covers 609 seats and holds both home and away supporters. This stand replaced another un-covered temporary stand, on the opposite (south) side of the ground, from the start of the 2008 season. There are no stands in place behind the goals though there is limited standing space at both ends of the ground. The refreshment stall and supporters club are both found in the north-west corner.
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The Bristol Rovers Player of the Year award has been presented annually to the player voted the best in the preceding season by the fans of Bristol Rovers Football Club. The winning player has been awarded a trophy by the Bristol Rovers Supporters club every year since 1983,Byrne & Jay (2018), p. 323 and in 2018 the Football Club also began naming their own player of the year at an end-of-season awards dinner.
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The active supporters' group for the Mariners is called the Yellow Army, who sit in bay 16 of Central Coast Stadium during home games. In addition to the Yellow Army, there is a Central Coast Mariners Official Supporters Club, which was established during 2013. The Central Coast region has about 300,000 residents, which gives the Mariners the A-League's smallest local fan base. Accordingly, the Mariners acquired a small-market image among commentators.
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No reliable research exists about the spread of Djurgården supporters, but a 2015 T-shirt campaign suggests that supporters are spread fairly evenly throughout the Stockholm area. Although Djurgården's supporters have been organizing themselves since the late 1940s, with the founding of DIF Supporters Club back in 1947, the 1970s saw singing supporter sections emerging which led to a new supporter club to be founded in 1981, named Blue Saints.Hagström p. 55Hagström p.
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Keith Skipper, a former presenter on the station until he left in 1995, has criticised BBC Radio Norfolk for a lack of local focus to some of its programming. In an article published in the Eastern Daily Press in February 2012, Norwich City Independent Supporters Club chairman Robin Sainty described the station's post-match phone-in programme Canary Call as "audio surrealism", criticising the quality of callers phoning in with their views.
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Khamsa Supporters Club The club have one of the biggest number of supporters in Azerbaijan alongside Qarabagh FK and Khazar Lankaran. Amongst all Azerbaijani professional football clubs, Kapaz PFC have the highest average fan attendance at their home games. According to official statistics for the first half of 2015-16 season, Kapaz PFC ranked first in fan attendance at nearly 15,000 fans per home game. This was almost triple that of their nearest rival.
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Sat 16 Sep 1933 Scotland 1 Northern Ireland 2, London Hearts Supporters Club Boyd joined Derby County for £1,000 in May 1935, before moving to Bury then Dundee, both in 1937. He joined Grimsby Town in 1938 and made guest appearances for Clapton Orient and Brighton and Hove Albion during the Second World War. He remained a registered Grimsby player until 1946. He scouted for Newcastle and Middlesbrough after his playing retirement.
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On the financial side, a scant profit of £141 was recorded despite a club-record average home attendance of 20,708. The £6,850 spent to bolster the forward line had swallowed up most of the profits. The Supporters' Club therefore announced it would raise £5,000 – £1,500 of which would go towards the terracing on the Bycars End. Reserve players Mick Hulligan and Len Barber were allowed to leave for Northwich Victoria on free transfers.
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Work started on the park end roof in September 1929 and was completed by November that year at a cost of £690 which was raised by the supporters' club. The cover provided accommodation for 5,000 people standing on a shallow-raked earth and cinder bank. This end of the ground became known as 'The Scratting Shed.' Concrete terracing was laid on the standing area in front of the main stand in June 1952.
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Stan Charlton retired in summer 1965, having played 366 league matches for Orient over the two spells. He became manager of Weymouth and remained in that post for seven years. After that, he became a district manager for a major football pools company. Although he resided in far off Weymouth Stan remained very active with the O's and involved with Leyton Orient Supporters' Club where he attended several end of season award ceremonies.
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The German 2009 drama film 66/67: Fairplay Is Over () tells the story of a group of Eintracht Braunschweig hooligans. The title is a reference to Eintracht's championship winning season 1966–67, as well as the name of the fictional supporters club the characters in the film belong to. In 2008 the German jazz funk/hip hop band Jazzkantine produced a musical about Eintracht Braunschweig, titled Unser Eintracht, in cooperation with the Staatstheater Braunschweig.Unser Eintracht .
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Rathfern Rangers of the Northern Amateur Football League play their home games at the Diamond on Ardmillan Drive in Rathcoole.The Diamond Rathcoole F.C. of the Ballymena & Provincial League also play at the ground, which features two pitches. The 1st Newtownabbey Linfield Supporters Club is also based on the estate for fans of the IFA Premiership club.1st Newtownabbey LSC Awards Evening The Valley Leisure Centre was opened in 1977, followed by an astroturf in 1991.
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Born in Scoonie, Scott moved with his family to Glasgow at a young age and found work with Cowlairs Railway Works. Initially playing for local sides Towerhill and Northern, Scott was signed by Cowlairs in 1882, before moving to Hearts in 1889.London Hearts, editor. "George Scott." London Hearts Supporters Club, 2015, , Accessed 18 Mar. 2020. During his tenure, Hearts won two Scottish Cups and came top of the League in 1894/95.
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John Cox (1911 – 17 September 1990) was a Scottish football player and manager.John (Jackie) Cox : Record vs Heart of Midlothian, London Hearts Supporters Club He served Hamilton Academical (where he spent the majority of his playing career, making over 200 appearances in the right half position),Cox, Jackie (1931), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank Ayr United and St MirrenManagers, StMirren.info (the latter as a World War II guest) as both player and manager.Gaffers, David Ross, Lulu.
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The ashes for the speedway track were supplied by Richard Biffa Ltd, whose operating base at the time was in Wembley Hill Road. Richard Biffa later became Biffa Waste Services. The Wembley Lions speedway team became one of the most successful in the country, with large attendances and some 60,000 fans in their supporters' club. The Speedway World Championship was held at Wembley Stadium from 1936 until 1960 and then seven times more afterwards.
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In March 2006, Millwall appointed their first Fan On The Board (FOTB). After being elected by members of the Millwall Supporters Club (MSC), Peter Garston was appointed to a two-year term. On 3 May 2006, lifelong Millwall supporter Stewart Till became the new Chairman of Millwall Football Club, with Peter de Savary remaining as chair of the Holding Company, (Millwall holdings plc). New Executive Deputy Chair Heather Rabbatts oversaw the running of the company.
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The programme has a circulation in excess of 8,000 copies. The first West Bromwich Albion fanzine, Fingerpost, was published from 1983 until 1992, and was followed by several others, most notably Grorty Dick (1989–2005) and Last Train to Rolfe Street (1992–1995). Since Grorty Dick ceased publication in 2005, the club now only has one fanzine dedicated to it; 'Baggie Shorts' which is produced by the West Bromwich Albion Supporters' Club London Branch.
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The GRA made immediate changes with a new multimillion-pound extension completed during 2000. The old supporters club had been demolished making way for an extension to the grandstand restaurant and addition of three large executive suites. In addition there was a new racing surface and Swaffham hare system costing a further £130,000. The circumference of the track remained at 395 metres, with race distances of 250, 450, 595, 645 and 845 metres.
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On 29 January 2012, Robson scored a brilliant left footed volley against Sunderland at the Stadium of Light. This forced an FA Cup fourth-round replay at the Riverside Stadium. Following injury to club captain Matthew Bates, Robson was giving the captain's armband until the end of his final season at the Riverside. In April, Robson was announced as the player of the year for the Middlesbrough Official Supporters Club for the 2011–12 season.
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In total, Hamilton played 259 League and Scottish Cup matches for Celtic and scored 62 goals. His popularity is indicated by the fact a brake club (an early form of supporters club who travelled by wagon) from the Gorbals area had his portrait displayed on their banner. In 1912 Hamilton left Celtic and joined Dundee where he spent one year; he thereafter played for Bathgate (Central Football League) but retired in 1914.
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William Douglas Telfer (26 October 1925 – 11 November 1995) was a Scottish football player and manager. He played as a centre half for St Mirren, Rangers, Queen of the South and Hamilton Academical. He represented Scotland once, in a 1954 British Home Championship match against Wales, and made four appearances for the Scottish Football League XI.SFL player William Douglas Telfer, London Hearts Supporters Club Telfer later managed Albion Rovers from 1962 until 1965.
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Vale also ended the league programme with eight defeats in their last ten matches, losing heavily to Oldham Athletic, Manchester City and Blackburn Rovers. They ended the season 12th out of 16 teams, scoring 39 goals whilst conceding 77. The club set up a Supporters' club in April with 220 members each contributing a shilling subscription. Vale again fared poorly in the six game Subsidiary Tournament, losing four and winning only once.
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Tweedmouth Rangers Football Club is a football team in the town of Berwick- upon-Tweed, England, just south of the border with Scotland. Founded in 2010, they currently play in the East of Scotland Football League, having joined in 2016. Prior to this, they were members of the North Northumberland League in England. The club play at Old Shielfield Park, with a capacity of 1,000, and which the club use under an agreement with the Berwick Rangers supporters club.
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The Firmaši during the UEFA Europa League away match against Rapid Wien in 2012. One of the first organized supports of Vojvodina fans was recorded in 1931, at the away game against Mačva Šabac. Already in 1937, the first organized supporters club was established, probably the first organized supporter group in the former Yugoslavia. Although the club had numerous supporters throughout the history, more organized groups emerged end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s.
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Those girls who have competed in the Head of the Schoolgirls Regatta for three or more years, and are in Year 12, are eligible to receive a Morongo Medal. These medals have been struck to commemorate Morongo Girls' College's contribution to the HOSG as a competitor before closing and to recognize its supporters' club, the Chirnside Club, as a valued contributor to the Schoolgirls. The medal's inscription - "Sint lucernae ardentes" is translated as "Keep the lamp burning".
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By March 2000 supporter frustration grew as the club continued to fail to meet promised planning application submission dates. The Southend United Supporters Club Trust (SUSCT) observed that the club was running out of time. "We're no nearer to getting a new home now than we were 12 months ago, which is very worrying because we are running out of time fast," said chairman Trevor Bashford. Members of Southend Council were equally eager to see some progress.
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The Southern Derby Commemorative Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the winner of the Southern Derby. The trophy consists of a wooden base attached to a silver-plated, two-handled cup. The inscription on the base of the trophy reads The Southern Derby: Founded A-League Season 2000 in Atlanta, Charleston, & Raleigh by those who love the Game. The cup was purchased through funds raised by the supporters club of the inaugural three clubs involved in the competition.
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Further west again (close by the Glasgow Celtic supporters' club) is what remains of Westthorn Park (the allotments only, the cycle track and football fields having been removed). The beauty of the sylvan, meandering Clyde at Westthorn was described rapturously in the First Statistical Account of Scotland (1791–1799) and again in Rambles Around Glasgow of 1835. It still feels very surprisingly remote and is still beautiful. Westthorn was the site of riots in the early 19th century.
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In the 1987 Greek Cup final a crowd of 17,000 Iraklis fans travelled to Athens, to watch Iraklis lose in penalties against OFI. In two recent opinion polls Iraklis was ranked as the 6th most popular football club in Greece, gathering 2.8%–3.7% of the participating football supporters. The most prominent supporters' club of the team is Aftonomi Thira 10 (meaning Autonomous Gate 10), a fan club with a total of 15 branches in Northern Greece.
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Watford moved into Vicarage Road stadium in 1922. They remained in the Third Division South for a further 36 years, and when the league was restructured into four national divisions for the 1958–59, Watford were placed in the new Fourth Division. Up until 1960 the team was known as "The Blues". After a change of colours to gold shirts & black shorts, the team's nickname was changed to The Hornets, after a popular vote via the supporters club.
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There was also a Supporters Club located in Kirkintilloch. The Clyde Supporters' Trust got formed during season 2003–04. A group of fans became aware of the club's severe financial problems as Billy Carmichael's reign as chairman came to an end. It was formed in time to save the club and keep it in the supporter's hands in a time that coincided with Clyde's failure to gain promotion and the chairman looking to sell his majority shareholding.
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In 1953 the club introduced its first floodlights to the ground and with that enabling Grimsby Town to play night-time fixtures. Tall floodlights were purchased second hand from Wolverhampton Wanderers in 1958 and installed in 1960 at a cost of £9,000 which was raised by the supporters club, they have illuminated matches ever since when required. In 1961, the 63-year-old Pontoon Stand was demolished and replaced with a new stand of the same name.
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Hoey has a longstanding interest in sport. She was the 1966 Northern Ireland high jump champion and has worked for football clubs including: Arsenal, Tottenham Hotspur, Queens Park Rangers, Chelsea and Brentford, as an educational advisor. Before entering Parliament, she was educational adviser to Arsenal FC from 1985 to 1989. A founder member of the London Northern Ireland Supporters' Club, Hoey took part in a St Patrick's Day parade in London in 2007 with Northern Ireland manager Lawrie Sanchez.
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Day of Opening - Hungary- Uruguay 1-2 On 15 November 2019 the arena was opened by the match Hungary- Uruguay. The idea to invite the Uruguay national football team came from Károly Jankovics who is the leader of the Hungarian community in Montevideo. All of the tickets were sold for the opening match against Uruguay. In the first three days only the members of the Supporters' Club of the Hungarian Football Federation could purchase the tickets.
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The 2015-16 seasons attendance record was set in Ganja, as 20,400 Kapaz fans attended home game against Qarabag FC on February 14, 2016 The fanbase is large and generally loyal and like most major Azerbaijani football clubs, Kapaz have a number of domestic supporters' clubs, including the Khamsa Supporters Club, which works closely with the club and maintains a more independent line. The club's most popular celebrity supporters are the likes of Olympic wrestling champion Toghrul Asgarov.
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Scots V. Anglo-Scots., The Glasgow Herald, 24 March 1898 he was selected to play for Scotland against England two weeks later in what would be his only full cap.(Scotland player) William Maxwell, London Hearts Supporters Club Maxwell was not a typical 1890s inside-forward as most relied on strength and power, Maxwell used his pace to sprint away from defenders and most of his goals came in one-on-one situations with the goalkeeper.
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Waterford were crowned First Division champions following a 3–0 victory over Wexford, finishing eight points ahead of second- placed Cobh Ramblers, and promoted back to the Premier Division. O'Connor finished the 2017 season with 26 appearances and four goals to his name, and was voted as the club's Player of the Year by the members of the Blues Supporters Club. On 18 January 2018, O'Connor signed a one-year contract with First Division side Longford Town.
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Invercargill Marist Rugby Football Club is an amateur New Zealand rugby union club based in the Southland Region of New Zealand. Their senior team plays in the Southlandwide Premier Division for the Galbraith Shield. The club boasts one of the most loyal supporters groups in the region which can be credited to Peter D Grace, the founder of the Supporters Club. The current team captained by former New Zealand Under-20 representative Scott Eade features five current Southland representatives.
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The pier appears in the Agatha Christie's Poirot episode "Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan" (although ostensibly, the story is located in Brighton) and in "Curtain: Poirot's Last Case". It was also featured in the 2001 film Last Orders and the 2008 film Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging. The 2010 film Brighton Rock used Eastbourne Pier to stand in for Brighton's Palace Pier. Eastbourne Town FC supporters club "Pier Pressure" are named in homage to the pier.
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Hearts side at this time contained numerous youngsters and the Tynecastle side's directors felt Kerr would provide a steadying influence to counter youthful inconsistency. He spent five seasons with HeartsPeter Kerr: Hearts career, London Hearts Supporters Club before joining his third and final Edinburgh club, Leith Athletic in 1931. He played one season for Leith, during which they suffered relegation from Division One, before retiring two months shy of his 41st birthday. He was appointed Leith's manager in 1932.
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Alec Mackie was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as an inside right and featured for Rangers between 1902 and 1905.(Rangers player) Mackie, Alec, FitbaStats He won the Scottish Cup in 1903, scoring in the second replay which eventually secured victory over Heart of Midlothian.Football. Scottish Cup Final., The Scotsman, 27 April 1903, via London Hearts Supporters Club He also played in the 1904 final of the competition, a defeat to CelticScottish Cup Final Tie.
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Manchester United is one of the most popular football clubs in the world, with one of the highest average home attendances in Europe. The club states that its worldwide fan base includes more than 200 officially recognised branches of the Manchester United Supporters Club (MUSC), in at least 24 countries. The club takes advantage of this support through its worldwide summer tours. Accountancy firm and sports industry consultants Deloitte estimate that Manchester United has 75 million fans worldwide.
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Floodlights were installed in 1992. During the off-season of 2010 the Supporters' Club funded and helped build the new team benches, replacing the aged and basic ones with new spacious dugouts. In the summer of 2011 the club upgraded more of the facilities at Surrey Street. The new clubhouse, dressing rooms, refreshment bar and hospitality room were completed in a relatively short amount of time being ready for the first pre-season game of 2011–12.
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Telford has a Supporters Club following Wolverhampton Wanderers FC, organising travel to away games and hosting social functions Telford also hosted the UK Snooker Championship, from 2007 to 2010. The championship moved from York in 2007 but returned to the refurbished Barbican Centre in York since 2011. The Shropshire Golf Centre is located near Muxton, to the northeast of Telford. This has three nine-hole courses, a 13-hole par three academy course and driving range.
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Vojvodina had about 150 supporters present, who arrived with 6 busses. In those years, several thousands fans attended Vojvodina matches in Osijek, Borovo and other cities. Trips to away games were organized usually by train, buses and even by steam boats.Klub-navijaca-1937 The supporters club was active until World War II, but during the war the Kingdom of Yugoslavia was invaded and partitioned by the Axis powers, and its northern parts, including Novi Sad, were annexed by Hungary.
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David Baird (4 March 1869 – 19 March 1946) was a Scottish footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian, Motherwell and Scotland.(Hearts player) Davie Baird, London Hearts Supporters Club Baird won the Scottish Cup three times with Hearts, playing in three different positions in each of the finals (1891, 1896 and 1901), though he was most commonly deployed as an outside forward. After retiring as a player in 1904, Baird was a director of Hearts between 1926 and 1936.
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McGonagle made his Scotland debut against England on 1 April 1933 at the age of 28, and went on to earn six caps.Scotland player Peter McGonagle, London Hearts Supporters' Club He never scored for Scotland, but missed a penalty kick in a 1–2 defeat by Ireland in his second game on 16 September 1933. His last Scotland cap came against Wales on 21 November 1934. He also represented the Scottish League XI (5 caps, 1 goal).
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The official supporters' club for the province is the "Connacht Clan". A voluntary organisation, it was established in 2011 and is club run by a member-elected committee. The committee is made up entirely of supporters, with the exception of one representative from the Connacht Branch, who acts as a liaison to the supporters. The side's mascot "Eddie the Eagle" is used to promote the team to younger fans, appearing at schools and attending promotional events aimed at families.
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It has been renovated in 2013 by building a new stand of about 3.000 seats to respect the criteria of the Danish Superliga, and again in 2018 and 2019 by expanding the eastern stands, and upgrading the north and south stands with roofs. The south stand is a standing-only area for away fans. The north stand is a standing-only area for the singing home fans and the official supporters club. The east and west stands are seating only.
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Like Neal, his fee was partially met by the Saints' Supporters Club. Ruddy made his debut on 24 December 1932, when he took the place of Herbert Coates at inside-left against Preston North End. Coates returned for the next match, and it was not until February that Ruddy, now at inside-right was able to become a settled member of the side. In the next season, Ruddy played the first six matches at inside-left, before losing out to Coates.
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Henry Hogg Allan (8 October 1872 – 1965) was a Scottish footballer who played for Heart of Midlothian, East Fife and the Scotland national team. Allan joined Hearts from local Fife football in April 1897 and helped the club to their third Scottish Cup success in 1901. He earned a solitary cap for Scotland in March 1902, playing in a 4–1 win over Wales.(Scotland player) Henry Allan, London Hearts Supporters Club He represented the Scottish League XI on two occasions.
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On 3 June 2016, Manchester City announced they had signed Middag. She made her debut for the club after being brought off the bench against Liverpool on 30 June and was voted Player of the Match by the Official Supporters Club. She made her first start for the club on 2 July against Aston Villa and scored a goal in the first half of match. In May 2017, Middag suffered an ACL injury during a Spring Series match against Reading.
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Book remained manager until 1979, when he was replaced by his former mentor Malcolm Allison. He then became a loyal stalwart to the club in several other roles until 1997, including as caretaker manager again in 1993.Soccerbase: Tony Book's managerial career He joined Huddersfield Town in 1997 as Chief Scout under Brian Horton. As of 2008 Book is retired, but holds two honorary positions; he is Honorary President of Manchester City and Life President of the Manchester City Official Supporters Club.
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The supporters club "Lebari" (Macedonian: Лебари) was formed in 1991. They generally support all clubs in Radoviš, and mostly wear green and yellow symbols, which are the group colours. In the past and now, Radoviš rightly carries the attribute of a sports city. It can be freely called "The metropolis of wrestling in free and Greco-Roman style" in Europe and worldwide after Radoviš' favorite club BK "Bučim-Radovis" won the titles "European Club Champion in 1995" and "World Club Champion in 1996".
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Capital City lead the CSL in average attendance, attracting over 1,000 fans to most of their home games. Peak attendance is believed to have been over 1,700 for their 2011 Givova Cup Semi-Final match against the Serbian White Eagles, a 5-0 win. Capital City FC's supporters group is called "Bytown Boys Supporters Club". The Bytown Boys bring much energy to CCFC home games and use popular chants used by Toronto FC and Vancouver Whitecaps supporters' groups, in addition to original chants.
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Distances of 292, 496 & 698 yards made up the races and the stadium kennels charged owners one guinea per week, an agreement that included veterinary attention. Facilities included three covered enclosures; the large home straight enclosure offered two clubs, the Silver Ring Club and the Stadium Club. The Supporters Club was to be found within the back straight covered stand whilst the totalisator and racing office was situated between the third and fourth bends. Distances changed to 500 and 700 yards by 1946.
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At the conclusion of the 1981–82 season, players having not been paid, Getafe was automatically relegated and subsequently liquidated. Meanwhile, on 1 September 1976, a new club was founded in the National Sports Council and the Regional Federation of Castille. The club was called Peña Madridista Getafe (the "Real Madrid supporters' club of Getafe"). This club played for four seasons in various divisions, until taking the name Club Deportivo Peña Getafe, and played under this name for a further two seasons.
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Fundraising by the Vulcan to the Sky Trust commenced in 1999. In terms of public campaigning, the Trust was also assisted by a supporters club, Vulcan to the Sky Club (formerly Vulcan 558 Club). An application to the Heritage Lottery Fund lodged in 2001 was controversially rejected a year later, attributed to the fund's lack of enthusiasm for flight projects. On the HLF's advice, the bid was refocused and a resubmitted proposal in 2003 was accepted; £2,734,000 being awarded on 23 June 2004.
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He made just nine appearances before leaving the club. After spells playing for Dibba Al-Hisn in the United Arab Emirates, he signed to Hamilton for a third time in October 2003,Quitongo Returns St Mirren Mad where he remained until the summer of 2004. He signed for League of Ireland club Waterford United for the remainder of the 2004 season.Jose Quitongo London Hearts Supporters Club In January 2005, he signed for Alloa Athletic, moving to Partick Thistle in March 2006.
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Perth Glory supporters prior to the 2012 A-League Grand Final The Shed, which is a covered terraced standing area at the northern end of the ground is the main active support area in the stadium. The original Shed was located on the hill at the northeast of the ground. The redevelopment of the ground in 2003 led to the relocation of the Shed closer to the playing surface. The Shed is home to the supporter group, Glory Shed Supporters Club (GSSC).
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Some of these fans are part of 62 supporter clubs in Belgium, which have more than 10,000 members. The "Supportersfederatie Club Brugge KV", founded in 1967, is recognized as the official supporters club of Club Brugge. The federation is made up of 60 recognized supporters' clubs and has an elected board to steer the operation in the right direction. In tribute the fans, often dubbed the twelfth man in football, Club Brugge no longer assigns the number 12 to players.
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La Norte (also La Curva Norte or The Northside) was a soccer supporters' club affiliated with Major League Soccer side D.C. United. The club was founded in 2001 when members of La Barra Brava left section 135 of RFK Stadium to form a new club. The club was originally situated in section 120 of RFK, as the section sat directly behind the north goal. The club takes its name from their preferred location on the north side of the stadium.
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The most prominent supporters' club of the team is Aftonomi Thira 10 (meaning Autonomous Gate 10), a fan club with a total of 15 branches in Northern Greece. The fan club is known for holding an antiracist stance, as it participates in the Ultras Antiracist Festival. Other activities of the fan club include the publication of a magazine, and the conducting of an annual festival. Other minor supporters' clubs are SFISE, Blue Boys, A.P.A.T.S.I., and Iraklis Fan Club of Athens.
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Manager Alan Ball also ran onto the pitch to remonstrate with Hamer and had to be pulled away by his backroom staff. The season did have a positive for City, as they completed a league double over rivals Plymouth Argyle. In September 1993, comedian Freddie Starr was reportedly interested in buying City; he met with the Supporters' Club in a hotel near Exeter and even attended the club's 5–0 home win over Wrexham. However, this interested faded soon after.
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Then the council agreed to rent the stadium at a longer term for £400 a year. The search for a new ground took them to Hamil Road, Burslem; opposite a site the club occupied between 1884 and 1886. The rough land used for fly- tipping was valued at £30,000, and the Brownhills Estates Company and the Supporters' Club launched a New Ground Appeal. In September 1944 the land was acquired, and work began on a 70,000 capacity 'Wembley of the North'.
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On Saturday 8 May IJsselmeervogels became league champion for the 31st time and celebrated the 50th championship in the history of IJsselmeervogels. Three weeks later, IJsselmeervogels won the overall Saturday title for the 15th time and after that the club won the 6th national amateur title by beating VV Gemert twice (0–1 and 4–0). In the summer of 2008 Supporters club NAS was established. NAS stands for Na Arbeid Sport (Sport After Labour), which was a former name of IJsselmeervogels.
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William Forbes McIntosh (2 January 1879 – 15 January 1973) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back or left half. He played club football for Third Lanark and Vale of Leven, and made one appearance for Scotland in 1905.Scotland - International Matches 1901-1910, RSSSF, 28 May 2020(Scotland player) William McIntosh, London Hearts Supporters Club With Third Lanark, McIntosh won the Scottish Football League title in 1903–04 and the Scottish Cup in 1905. He later emigrated to Canada.
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Many of the 165+ Irish pubs in Spain and Portugal have regular live Irish music, as well as live Irish sports coverage, including GAA, association football and rugby. There are Spanish and Portuguese Irish music groups, Irish dancing schools and groups, and Irish music festivals. There is an Irish darts league in Madrid, and there are GAA clubs for Gaelic football in Barcelona, Madrid, Marbella, Valencia, Seville, Gibraltar and 11 clubs in Galicia. There is an Irish supporters club in Gibraltar.
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During his 138-day tenure, Wigan achieved 19 points from a possible 72 winning 5 games of 24 played in the Championship. The move was welcomed by fans with Wigan Athletic Supporters Club spokesperson Caroline Molyneux telling BBC Sport: "I think [Mackay's sacking] is a popular decision among the fans." Mackay had received public backing by newly appointed club chairman David Sharpe as recently as March 2015 when he described Mackay as "a big part of what we are doing here".
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City's pitch was 115 yards long so the ball must have travelled nearly sixty yards. He finished his career with Stockport County in 1953. Black won three caps for the Scotland national football team(Scotland player) Andy Black, London Hearts Supporters Club, and six wartime caps,Scotland Unofficial Matches 1939-1945, RSSSF, 23 July 2020 including one game where he had to be carried off of the pitch by Frank Swift after becoming injured. He died on 16 February 1989 in Bannockburn Hospital.
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He finished the 2014–15 season with 50 appearances and seven goals. Mawson swept the board at Wycombe's end-of-season awards ceremony, winning the Supporters' and Players' Player of the Year awards, in addition to the Official Wycombe Wanderers Supporters Association's Player, Young Player and Away Travel Player of the Year awards. He also won the Wycombe Wanderers Independent Supporters' Club Player of the Year award. He finished third in the running for the League Two Player of the Year award.
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Gbadebowale Aboderin (1958 – 30 May 2018) was a Nigerian journalist, businessman and sports administrator, who was until his death the chairman of Punch Nigeria Limited, a publishing house founded by his father. Described by Vanguard as a pillar of journalism, he schooled at Government College, Ibadan, before undergoing aviation training at Burnside-Ott Flying School. In sports, he was chairman, Lagos State Basketball Association and vice-president of Nigeria Basketball Supporters Club. Aboderin died after a heart surgery in Lagos.
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Thomas McCall Smith (4 October 1909 – 21 June 1998) was a Scottish association football player and manager. Smith, who was born in Fenwick, East Ayrshire, played in junior football before signing for Kilmarnock. Smith was part of the Killie team that lost the Scottish Cup Final to Rangers in 1932, and he won international recognition two years later when he played in the 1934 British Home Championship against England.Profile, Spartacus Educational.Sat 14 Apr 1934 England 3 Scotland 0, London Hearts Supporters' Club.
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Membership had grown to 17,000 by this time. The UEFA Euro 2008 qualifying campaign saw membership numbers increase dramatically to a capacity of 27,500, with a waiting list of over 10,000. The Scotland Supporters Club is operated by the Scottish Football Association, with membership guaranteeing one match ticket for all home fixtures and offering the opportunity to apply for away match tickets. As of August 2010, the club is at its maximum capacity of 35,000 members and therefore does not accept applications.
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McCombe began his career in 1931 with local club Bothwellhaugh A. Moves to Wishaw Thistle and Wishaw Juniors followed, before signing Heart of Midlothian in 1934. McCombe failed to break into the first team at Hearts (making one Scottish Cup appearance in 1935)(Hearts player) James McCombe, London Hearts Supporters Club and subsequently signed for Clyde in 1935, for whom he made his Scottish Football League debut. Later that year, McCombe joined King's Park. In 1936, McCombe signed for Clapton Orient.
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In 1921 the Central Athletic Ground was relaid and a stand erected; Aberavon RFC returned to their home ground. During the 1920/21 season, W.H. Taylor of The Evening Post, dubbed the club The Wizards of the West. The name stuck and was shortened sometimes to 'The Welsh Wizards' or just 'The Wizards', the nickname stays with the club to this day. In 1932 Aberavon Supporters Club reformed, after an initial attempt failed in 1920, and by 1932 they had begun producing the first official match programme.
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Pentelow appeared in a number of films during his career, these included, Charlie Bubbles, Privilege, and The Peace Game. He also made appearances in popular television programmes, such as, Z-Cars, Emergency - Ward 10 and Hadleigh. Prior to appearing in the soap opera Emmerdale Farm when it began in 1972, he had already appeared in Coronation Street as an old friend of Hilda Ogden, played by the actress Jean Alexander, as well as a sporting serial called United! as the football supporters' club chairman.
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The current club was formed in 1989, but its history stretches back to 1923 and the foundation of Comrades FC. This team amalgamated with Grey Lynn FC in 1952, briefly becoming Grey Lynn Comrades United, before renaming to Grey Lynn United in 1954. In 1986 this team combined with the New Zealand branch of the Celtic Supporters Club to form Grey Lynn Celtic. It was this team which combined with Point Chevalier AFC (founded 1943) to become Western Springs Association Football Club in 1989.
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Bolasie was transferred to Bristol City on 6 June 2011 for an undisclosed fee and signed a two-year contract. He scored his first goal for the club in a 3–1 win against Coventry City on 9 April 2012. Prior to the match against Barnsley later that month, Bolasie was named Young Player of the Year by the Supporters Club and Trust after a fans vote. He submitted a written transfer request in August 2012 because he wanted to move back to London.
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Blackpool Sea Eagles RLFC were founded in 2002 by Chris Aylen and Dave Gavaghan with assistance from the Blackpool Rugby League Supporters Club. Further friendlies took place throughout the summer, all taking place at Blackpool RUFC. Blackpool Sea Eagles became founder members of the North West Division of the Rugby League Conference in 2003. They ended the league campaign with two wins both coming against local rivals Lancaster before crashing out to Gateshead Storm in the first round of the RLC Shield play- offs.
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While playing for Partick Thistle, Lambie was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI against the English Football League XI in 1928, and took part in what proved to be the last Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial match in the same year,Football. Anglo-Scots Trial., The Scotsman, 14 March 1928, via London Hearts Supporters Club although this did not lead to a full cap for Scotland. He also played in two editions of the Glasgow Football Association's annual challenge match against Sheffield.
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Alexander Schur (born 23 July 1971) is a former German footballer. Schur played for more than ten years for Eintracht Frankfurt and is a legend for the Eintracht supporters due to his fighting spirit and his club loyalty. Arguably his most important goal was the header for the 6–3 against SSV Reutlingen in the 2002–03 season of the Second Bundesliga that assured the promotion of the eagles. On 22 May 2004 he an Eintracht supporters club, named itself after him, the EFC oldSCHURhand.
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A choreography of Tifozat Kuq e Zi in the national team's first match at Elbasan Arena against Denmark in October 2014. Tifozat Kuq e Zi (, also known as the Albania National Football Team Supporters Club) is a non-profit football supporters' association for the Albania national football team and various national team sportive activities. It was founded on 25 December 2003. In cooperation with FSHF, it organises trips for football fans to visit games, and develops and sells merchandise to support itself and fund sporting related projects.
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He received Player-of-the-Year awards from both the West Bromwich Albion Supporters Club and from the club itself, after scoring 24 goals from 30 starts and finishing as the Championship's second top goalscorer. At national level, he was chosen Championship Player of the Year at the annual Football League Awards, ahead of Andy Gray of Charlton Athletic and Michael Kightly of Wolverhampton Wanderers, and, together with teammates Paul Robinson and Jonathan Greening, was named in the PFA Championship Team of the Year.
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Gartland was at Bray Wanderers in 2005 and won their U21 Player of the Year the following year, before moving to Shelbourne at the start of 2007. Brian spent just one year at Shelbourne before joining Monaghan United in 2008, where he won the 2009 Supporters Club Player of the Year. In January 2011 he moved north of the border for a -year spell with Portadown in the Irish League. Brian Gartland joined Dundalk during the July transfer window in 2013 having left Irish League side Portadown.
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On 26 April 2014 Rafferty was part of the Rochdale team which won promotion to League One. On 1 July 2014, Rafferty agreed a new two-year contract extending his stay at Spotland until May 2016. At the end of the 2016–17 season, Rochdale AFC confirmed Rafferty had signed a new two-year deal with the club. At the end of season awards Rafferty won both the Rochdale supporters player of the year and the SMAC Dale supporters club player of the year.
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Old Trafford Supporters Club, a 750-capacity basement bar with pool tables United red, TV screens and terrace-themed food such as pie and peas. Entrance is £1, with the fee earmarked for investment in local community projects.The Guardian Hotel Football review 12 March 2015 Cafe Football, a 185-seat restaurant with a menu overseen by two-Michelin-star chef Michael Wignall of the Pennyhill Park Hotel. Heaven, a bookable five-a-side astroturf pitch which on match days turns into a bar and barbecue area.
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In 2004, following Leeds' relegation from the Premier League to the Championship, he moved to Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur. He played in 175 matches for Tottenham, including 137 Premier League matches, and scored another goal (this time in a Premier League match, whilst he also won the 2008 League Cup with the club). He was signed by Blackburn Rovers in 2008, being voted the Blackburn Rovers Player of the Year in 2011 by the supporters' club. Robinson made his full international debut in a 3–1 friendly defeat against Australia on 12 February 2003.
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The club was established as the "Great Hankuk Supporters Club" in December, 1995. The current name, "Red Devils", comes from a term coined by the international media in 1983 when the Korean youth team reached the semi- final of the 1983 FIFA World Youth Championship. Because the national football team's official jersey color is red, History of national football team's uniform, Sports Chosun, 2010-05-01. Retrieved 2010-06-18 the media dubbed both the team and supporting fans "Red Furies", and it was translated as "Red Devils" in Korean.
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Daughter of Peggy (née Doyle), and niece of Mary, All-Ireland medal winners with Wexford in 1968 and 1969. she is a sister of Mag who was on the 2010-1 panel. Four of her brothers - Denis, Mick, John and Joe played with Wexford in various grades of hurling, while her father, Seán, is a former county under-age hurling mentor. Played in the All-Ireland Intermediate football final of 2007 and completed a notable double as she won the Wexford Supporters' Club player of the year for both camogie and football.
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Liverpool Football Academy's indoor arena is named the Ian Frodsham Indoor Arena, and the club's young player of the year award is named the Ian Frodsham Memorial Award. There is also an Ian Frodsham Tournament held at the Academy for school children in the Kirkby area. In Christmas 2008, Liverpool youngster Stephen Darby won the Ian Frodsham Young Player Of The Year Award, for "his good development and progression over the last 12 months, and his outstanding off-the-field behaviour". The award was given by the Official Liverpool Supporters Club.
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Regis and his wife Julia visited water-related projects in Ethiopia in 2007, as part of their continued support for WaterAid. Regis won the Coventry City London Supporters' Club Player of the Year in 1986/87 and regularly comes in high in any legend polls for the club. In 2007/08 a Coventry City Hall of Fame picture gallery was erected at the Ricoh Arena, containing thirty Coventry greats from the club's entire history, whom he was among. He was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2008 Birthday Honours.
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Anasta's performances throughout the season were rewarded as he was nominated for Dally M Five-Eighth of the Year and won the Roosters' prestigious Jack Gibson Medal for Player of the Year as well as the Supporters Club Player of the Year Award.Anasta named Jack Gibson Medalist SportsAustralia.com. Retrieved 9 May 2008 In the Roosters' last match of the 2007 season, Anasta attracted a fair amount of media attention after he was hit by South Sydney Rabbitohs forward David Fa'alogo in what he described as a "coward act".
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In May 1935, Summers joined another First Division club, Derby County, where he was used as cover for the England international, Sammy Crooks. Having made only two appearances for the Derby first-team, Summers was sold to Southampton of the Second Division in October 1936, for a fee of £250. Summers' transfer fee to join Southampton was partly met by the Southampton Supporters Club. He made his debut, taking the place of Fred Tully at outside-right for a 2–0 defeat at Fulham on 10 October 1936.
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Born in Birkenhead, Merseyside, Howard initially started his career with Liverpool before being signed as a trainee by Tranmere Rovers. He was signed by Jim Harvey for Morecambe from Swansea City, where he had been a regular for 6 seasons, at the start of the 2004–05 season. His consistent performances at left-back saw him win the 'Junior Red of the Year' award at the award ceremony at the end of the 2005–06 season. This award was voted for by members of the Morecambe Junior Reds Supporters' Club.
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He was made a baronet in July 1942, of North Hackney, in the County of Middlesex. His widow, Margaret, was an early employer of Archibald Hall, a known serial murderer and thief;The Butler Did It: My True and Terrifying Encounters with a Serial Killer, Paul Pender, Mainstream Publishing, 2012 Hall refrained from stealing from Lady Hudson as he liked her too much. He was a supporter of Clapton Orient Football club and in the 1930s he was President of the Supporters Club. Source: Neilson N. Kaufman historian Leyton Orient FC. February 2017.
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Brown was named by the Tartan Army (Scotland Supporters Club) as 'Scotland's Greatest Ever Manager'. One-time Republic of Ireland No1 Bonner played his first game in Scotland for Coltness after being farmed out so Celtic could see him in action. In his autobiography The Last Line Bonner writes: > "My playing introduction to Scottish football would be a tight little ground > with a surprisingly large crowd that pressed hard in on you from all angles > as I lined up for Coltness United against East Kilbride Thistle. > "I loved that kind of environment.
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Lapsley was also chosen to represent the Scottish League XI twice, playing against the Irish League XI and the (English) Football League select team, getting on the scoresheet in a 3–0 win against the former.David Lapsley, London Hearts Supporters Club. He was also selected by Scotland on more than twenty occasions as understudy to Rangers captain George Young, but Lapsley never played for his country. Following Lapsley's death, a one-minute silence was held in his memory at the Scottish Cup tie between St Mirren and Motherwell on 27 January 2001.
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England lost the match 2–1, with Burnley captain Jack Hill scoring an own goal to give the visitors the win. In 1932, Burnley's newly- founded supporters' club raised funds to install a hut and a scoreboard at the Bee Hole End. Six years later, plans were announced to build a new covered terrace on the site of the old "Stars" Stand, but these plans were delayed by the outbreak of the Second World War. The plans came to fruition after the war, and the Longside was completed in 1954.
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McCrea was elected to Cookstown District Council in 2001, held the position of chairman of the Council in 2007–08 and is a member of Cookstown District Policing Partnership. A former member of the Young Democrats, McCrea is now chairman of the Cookstown DUP Branch, and of the party's Local Government Association, also in Cookstown. A member of the Apprentice Boys of Derry, he also acts as chairman of Coagh United Supporters Club. In 2011 his car was set alight and destroyed outside his house; no group or individual admitted responsibility for the attack.
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"Partners Lounge" and offices entrance, built in 1966–67 on the site of "Offside Cottage" at 57 Frogmore Road Offside Cottage, was a terraced house formerly next door to Fratton Park at number 57 Frogmore Road. The house was owned by Portsmouth FC and was used as the offices of the Portsmouth Supporters Club. Offside Cottage was demolished in 1966 to make way for new Portsmouth Football Club offices, a supporters lounge and new turnstiles for the Fratton End. The new offices were officially opened on 27 March 1967, an Easter Monday.
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The Brentford Supporters' Player of the Year award is chosen by members of the Brentford Supporters Club and was first presented to full back Ken Coote at the end of the 1961–62 season. The award has been presented annually since, with the exception of the 1967–68 and 1968–69 seasons. The presentation is traditionally made in May each year at the Big Red Ball awards dinner, with the winner receiving the Cyril Tyler Cup. Bob Booker was the first winner of the current cup, in 1983.
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Rangers player Barker, John, FitbaStats He achieved a similar impact at international level, scoring a hat-trick in the first of his two Scotland caps against Wales in March 1893. He scored in his second, and what proved to be his last Scotland appearance, again against Wales, a year later in a 5–2 win.(Scotland player) John Barker, London Hearts Supporters Club He scored for Rangers in their Scottish Cup triumph in 1894 against Celtic but left the club in 1896, returning to Linthouse for two seasons.
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The link between Rangers and Hamburg dates back to 1977 when the Hamburg Rangers Supporters' Club was set up by HSV fans who had visited Rangers matches before and were thrilled by the atmosphere at Ibrox. The links were further strengthened when Rangers signed Jörg Albertz from Hamburg. In the derby against St. Pauli in the season 2018–19 about 200–300 fans of the Scottish club traveled to Hamburg to support HSV. The friendship between Celtic and Hamburg's rivals FC St. Pauli has no influence on this friendship, however.
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Queen's Boyz & Kallithea Fans Veria fans during the 80s In 1966 the first fan-supporting club of Veria FC was founded and it was named Club of Veria's fans. Today, the club exists but is inactive as there are no official registered members. Few years ago there was a try of re- establishing the club by electing a new management board and by registering new members, but at the end the idea was abandoned. In early 1991 the most successful and powerful club of Veria's supporters, Club of Fans Veria «Gate 4», was founded.
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Despite poor financial conditions in the mid-1950s and unimpressive league positions, the club did have flashes of quality, exemplified by Alan Parkinson who scored 67 league goals over the course of two seasons.Adamson, p. 57. The Midland League itself began to decline in prestige after a shake up for the 1958–59 season which saw the majority of the clubs leaving the league, many to the Southern League. Thanks to the Supporters Club, Scarborough had the Athletic Ground bought back in 1960 after a period of Scarborough Corporation owning it.
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Stevenson started out his provincial career with Hamilton-based side Waikato in 2015. He debuted in a match against on 14 August 2015 and went on to start in all 10 games during the season, scoring 4 tries in the process. He won the Waikato Supporters Club player of the year award as a reward for his fine debut season. 2016 was not such a happy year for him as a MCL knee injury 38 minutes into the opening match of the season ruled him out for the rest of the year.
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Rutherford won two Scottish League championships, three Scottish Cups, two League Cups, two Glasgow Cups and a Charity Cup. After ten years, 147 appearances and 31 goals,(Rangers player) Rutherford, Eddie, FitbaStats Rutherford left Rangers and joined Hearts in 1951, in a swap deal that saw Colin Liddell move to Rangers. In his four years at Tynecastle he made 50 appearances and netted 15 times in all competitions.(Hearts player) Eddie Rutherford, London Hearts Supporters Club He was sold to Raith Rovers in January 1955 but joined Hamilton five months later.
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The uncovered stand (the Carwash Terrace) took its name from the car wash directly behind it on Lancaster Road. The supporters' club building that used to be behind it was knocked down late in 2006 and the club then received planning permission to build a new stand on its site comprising sponsors' facilities, conference rooms and offices. On 17 July 2007, however, Morecambe announced plans to move to a new stadium in time for the start of the 2010–11 season. The final ever goal at Christie Park was scored by David Artell.
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William Taylor (c. 1870 – 23 July 1949) was a Scottish footballer who played as an Outside right for Heart of Midlothian, Blackburn Rovers, Leith Athletic and the Scottish national team.(Scotland player) Willie Taylor, London Hearts Supporters Club Taylor finished as the top scorer in Scottish Football League Division One in the 1896–97 season with 12 goalsScotland - List of Topscorers, RSSSF as Hearts won the championship. He also won the Scottish Cup with the Edinburgh club in 1891 and 1896, but only played once in their other title- winning campaign of 1894–95.
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During the 1980s and 1990s AIK's official supporter group Black Army raged havoc around the country, making headlines in national newspapers. As a result of Black Army's bad behaviour another supporter group was created in 2000, Allmänna Supporterklubben (the General Supporters Club), as an option to Black Army. In 2002 Allmänna Supporterklubben was renamed to the much more AIK related name "Smokinglirarna" (roughly, "The Players", literally "the Black Tie Players"). In 2002 an ultras group was formed, Ultras Nord (Ultras North), and two years later, 2004, Sol Invictus was formed.
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The group originated due to a lack of an organized soccer supporters' club in the United States. Sam's Army notified fans by e-mail during the 2002 FIFA World Cup to let them know which bars would be showing the United States team's World Cup matches. Over 4,000 Sam's Army members gathered at Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium to watch the United States play Germany in the 2002 World Cup. George Vecsey of The New York Times noted that Sam's Army followed the United States team wherever they went for qualifying matches in 2004.
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The Ulster Footballer of the Year is the older of two association football player of the year awards in Northern Ireland. (The other is the Northern Ireland Football Writers' Association award.) It is awarded by Castlereagh Glentoran Supporters' Club to the player who is adjudged by an independent committee to have been the best of the season in the IFA Premiership. The award has been presented since the 1950–51 season, when the inaugural winner was Kevin McGarry of Cliftonville. The current holder of the award is Jamie Mulgrew, of Linfield.
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He spent the first half of the 1931–32 season at Derby County, and in February 1932, the Southampton Supporters' Club put up the funds to secure his transfer to replace Bert Jepson. Over the next few seasons he was rarely out of the side and was a model of consistency despite the team's failure to achieve anything of merit, finishing regularly in mid-table in Division Two. In 1937, after 177 appearances for Southampton, he moved on to Bristol City before finishing his career at Accrington Stanley.
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The Heriot Watt and Edinburgh University Celtic Supporters Club (HWEUCSC), holds an annual charity dinner, the 'Tommy Burns Supper' - a parody of the traditional (Robert) Burns supper. The event was first held in 1987 and, becoming increasingly popular, was attended regularly by Burns as well as celebrities from sports and entertainment. HWEUCSC retired the Supper after Burns died, but it was revived in 2017 and held at Celtic Park, in collaboration with the club. It has since become an annual fixture once again, returning to its original home in Teviot Row House.
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He was released by Cardiff at the end of the 2005–06 season after having spent some of the season on loan at Merthyr Tydfil. Since then he has played for Eastbourne Borough and in October 2006 he signed for Isthmian League Premier Division side Hastings United, making his debut in a 2–1 win over Croydon Athletic in the FA Trophy. In his first year, after helping the side to promotion, he was unanimously voted the Supporters' Club player of the year and was quickly offered a one-year extension to his contract.
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After leaving Ross County, McGovern joined up with St Johnstone for pre-season training before he signed for Falkirk on 20 July 2011. He quickly established himself as first choice goalkeeper and on 21 September 2011, played in Falkirk's 3–2 Scottish League Cup win over holders Rangers. On 1 April 2012, he played for Falkirk in their 1–0 win over Hamilton in the 2012 Scottish Challenge Cup Final. At the end of the season he won the Falkirk Players' Player of the Year award and Falkirk Supporters Club Player of the Year award.
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The ground was officially opened by Col. Charles Healey of Benskins Brewery for the visit of Millwall on 30 August 1922. In addition to being Watford's home since opening, the stadium was also home to Wealdstone F.C. between 1991 and 1993,Wealdstone Football Club history. Wealdstone Football Club Supporters Club. Accessed 2 October 2011. and to rugby union side Saracens from 1997 until they moved to their new home at Allianz Park in north London in February 2013.Allnutt, Tom (22 January 2013). "Saracens: 'Thank you Watford FC'".
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The Steels have generally worn a kit of yellow shirts with varying amounts of blue trim, blue shorts, and yellow stockings during their short history. The club badge is predominantly yellow and blue to reflect this, and features a representation of a clock tower located on Nanny Hill, near the club's stadium. The alternative crest was in use by the supporters club from 2006 to 2011 but was never adopted by the club. The official crest was redesigned in 2011 and is still in use (see top of page).
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The average attendance at the Look Local Stadium was 180 in the 2008–09 season, the ninth highest of twenty teams in the Northern Premier League Division One South, with the largest attendance being 451 for the visit of Sheffield. The average figure was a decrease of 3 compared to the previous season. The highest attendance in the club's history was 2,000, for a friendly match against Sheffield Wednesday to mark the inauguration of the ground's floodlights in October 1991. The club has a Supporters' Club which was set up in the mid-1990s.
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Linfield F.C. and Northern Ireland players, Broadway Windsor Park, the home of both Linfield F.C. and the Northern Ireland national football team is accessible from Donegall Avenue, a street that leads off the Donegall Road. As a consequence, both the club and national team are well supported within the road's community and are celebrated by murals in the Village area. The Donegall Road also features in a popular chant that Linfield supporters often sing. A supporters club for Scottish Premier League club Rangers F.C. is located at Barrington Street, adjacent to the Donegall Road.
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In addition, Simpson was named Away Player of the Year award at the 20th annual Supporters' Club Dinner- Dance. In the 2016–17 season, Simpson suffered a setback at the start of the season when he was sidelined with a sickness bug. While sidelined, Simpson was linked with a move away from the club, with Southend United keen on signing him, but the transfer move never happened. After returning to the first team, his return was short-lived when he suffered a back injury and was sidelined for weeks.
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It soon changed its name to Mountainview Social Club, before becoming West Belfast Rangers in 1988. Another name change to 1st Shankill Northern Ireland Supporters' Club came in 1991, before finally settling on Albert Foundry in 1998.H. Johnstone & G. Hamilton (n.d.) A Memorable Milestone: 75 Years of the Northern Amateur Football LeagueNorthern Amateur League roll of clubs The Foundry name evokes a former club of the same name, which folded in 1978, having played in the Amateur League since its foundation in 1923, winning the championship in 1960-61.
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They finished the season eighth out of twelve teams. Entry into the Heineken Cup led to a significant increase in the club's popularity. In summer 2011, the Connacht Clan supporters club was formed. In September 2011, Connacht season ticket sales went over the 3,000 mark for the first time in the club's history, and average attendance for the 2011–12 season saw a 105% increase over the previous season. Connacht's average attendance in home Pro12 matches climbed to 4,653 in the 2011–12 season, and increased further to 5,154 for the 2012–13 season.
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Leinster win The Last Stand at Lansdowne BreakingNews.ie, 31 December 2006 A previous attendance record in the Pro12 was also set at Lansdowne Road, for a game between Leinster and Munster which drew a crowd of 30,000.Miller-less Leinster earn corn The Irish Times – Leinster Rugby Leinsters European Cup clash against Munster at Croke Park on 2 May 2009 set a world record attendance for a "club" rugby union game with a crowd of 82,208. The Official Leinster Supporters Club was formally established as a club in 2007.
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A ground record of 35,695 fans turned up to watch Saints play Wigan on Boxing Day 1949. In January 1950, the training pitch was laid down. In February 1951, the newly completed Eccleston Kop covered enclosure was opened and was named after Supporters' Club Secretary George Eddington. In August 1958, the club's new grandstand was opened by Sir Harry Pilkington. The structure cost £32,000 and could seat 2,400. In September 1961, new metal goal posts replaced the wooden originals after storm damage. The new popular side enclosure was erected in 1962.
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The Red Bulls have designated some sections of Red Bull Arena as supporter specific. These included sections 101 for the Empire Supporters Club, 102 for the Viking Army, and section 133 for the Garden State Supporters. Sections 133, 101, and 102 are collectively known as the "South Ward".New York Red Bulls: Home: Home New York City FC's first official supporter group, The Third Rail, began to form after the club's announcement in May 2013, when fans met through social media, and through member drives and viewing parties for 2014 FIFA World Cup matches.
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It immediately became apparent that the remainder of the Brentford board had not been informed of the situation. After a tense month of fan protests (led by Supporters' Club chairman Peter Pond-Jones), negotiations and donations amounting to £8,500 (equivalent to £ in ), a six-man syndicate headed by former Plymouth Argyle chairman Ron Blindell took over Dunnett's shares on 23 February 1967 and guaranteed a 12-month bridging loan of £104,000. The following day, Blindell, as chairman, took control of the club. Manager Billy Gray followed Dunnett out of Griffin Park and trainer Jimmy Sirrel took over as manager.
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Beaumont Park In the late 2000s, a group of fans with chairman Ken Naylor from the Leicester Speedway Supporters Club/campaign group began discussions with various local bodies about the return of Speedway to the Leicester area. At the meeting of the Leicester City Council Planning and Development Control Committee held on 4 August 2009 the application for a speedway track at Beaumont ParkBeaumont Park was approved. The new track was constructed at Beaumont Park with the Lions returning in March 2011 as a Premier League team, with three-time cycle speedway world champion David Hemsley as promoter.
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Additionally, the club is supported by several other supporter's groups including Original 109 who sit in Section 109 of BMO Field, SG114 who sit in Section 114, and the Tribal Rhythm Nation who represent the African, Caribbean and Latin American communities in the Greater Toronto Area. The largest, and oldest supporters group for the Impact is Ultras Montréal, who are also known as UM02, for the year the supporters club was founded (2002). Additionally, the Impact are supported by 127 Montréal. 127 Montréal formed in 2011, around the time the Impact were in transition from NASL to MLS.
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Ashley's actions and subsequent media coverage of fan reaction saw the creation of a new organisation, the Newcastle United Supporters Club, to properly represent fan's views to any future board. Interest also mounted around the feasibility of a fan buyout of the club, seeing the launch of the Newcastle Fans United group. On 28 December, Ashley announced that the club was no longer up for sale, after he had failed to find an acceptable buyer. In January 2009, it was reported that interim manager Joe Kinnear had been offered a full-time position at the club by Ashley.
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The song featured the team and supporters and was recorded at the supporters club using Pye's mobile studio. The song is still sung by fans as the team runs out on matchdays. During the 1970s, Hatch and Trent diversified into musical theatre. Their first project, The Card, based on Arnold Bennett's novel, with book by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, ran in London's West End with Jim Dale and Millicent Martin in the lead roles. (Coincidentally, Petula Clark had starred in the 1952 film version with Alec Guinness.) An original cast album was released in 1975.
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Further resignations took the Vale board down to just five members. Facing an EGM, Chaudry's cause was boosted when Broxap CEO Robert Lee announced that he would sell his £50,000 worth of shares to Chaudry, making the board's removal at the EGM more likely (however Broxap later reversed their decision on the day of the EGM). However just ten days before the EGM Bratt announced a ten-year £1.6 million sponsorship deal with Ameriturf Global Sports. A further twist came five days later, when Robbie Williams handed his 24.9% worth of EGM proxy votes over to Port Vale Supporters' Club.
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On 25 August, manager Eamon O’Shea confirmed that his squad came through the weekend's round of club championship matches without any injuries and will have a full panel to pick from for the final. Tipperary training sessions will be open to the public on 25 August and on the last training session Thursday evening 4 September. The Tipperary team will be announced by email at 9pm on 4 September. The Tipperary post-match banquet, supported by the County Board and the Tipperary Supporters Club, will be held in the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in Dublin starting at 8pm.
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In anticipation of the 2020-2021 season an independent supporters club, Union 1908, was formed by West supporters with the aim of expanding the clubs fanbase, along with supporting local causes in the South Manchester area. West fans have been noted for their creative & humorous chants, often singing songs about humous, quinoa, vegetarianism, Bird's Eye Potato Waffles, and their love of Krombacher. In a similar fashion to fans of fellow non-league clubs such as Clapton CFC, Dulwich Hamlet, & Eastbourne Town FC, West fans are known for their left-wing political stance. Antifascist, LGBT, & pro-refugee flags are flown at most games.
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Born in Dublin, Devitt progressed through Hull City's youth system and was voted Young Player of the Year and Supporters' Club Player of the Year for the 2007–08 season. In 2009–10 he spent time on loan at three different League Two clubs. He signed for Darlington on a month's loan on 15 September 2009. He made his debut on 19 September in a 2–0 home defeat to Bournemouth, and scored his first goal for the Quakers in the last game of his loan spell, a 2–1 win against Shrewsbury Town on 17 October.
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In 2001–02, another American, Kevin Wall, was placed in charge and brought a mild turn in fortunes, finishing 4th (13–19). But it was another switch, in the summer of 2002, which proved more significant. Attracted by the opening of the brand-new 4,000-seat Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Rocks uprooted from their ageing Meadowbank venue in Edinburgh and moved 45-miles west to Scotland's largest city, and rebranded as the Scottish Rocks. The move received a mixed response from fans, whilst many said that the move wouldn't work, the official supporters club backed the franchise's decision.
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Thomas Preston (1893 – 1971) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right half for Airdrieonians,Greatest XI - 6. Central Midfielder, Airdrieonians FC, 18 March 2016 spending his entire career with the club. He was a member of the Diamonds team that won the Scottish Cup in 1924.The Cup Final Airdrieonians' First Success, The Glasgow Herald, 21 April 1924 Preston was selected once for the Scottish Football League XI in the same year as the cup win,(SFL player) T Preston, London Hearts Supporters Club and took part in a trial match for the full Scotland team in 1925.
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In 1972 a testimonial match was organised by Everton on Lawton's behalf to help him pay off his debts of around £6,000. However his financial situation was still bleak, and on two occasions he narrowly avoided a prison sentence for failing to pay his rates after an Arsenal supporters club and later an anonymous former co-worker stepped in to pay the bill for him. In August 1974, he was again found Guilty of obtaining goods by deception after failing to repay a £10 debt to a publican, and was sentenced to 200 hours of Community service and ordered to pay £40 costs.
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Tifozat Kuq e Zi (, also known as the Albania National Football Team Supporters Club) is a non-profit football supporters' association for the Albania national football team and various national team sportive activities. It was founded on December 25, 2003. In cooperation with FSHF, it organises trips for football fans to visit games, and develops and sells merchandise to support itself and fund sporting related projects. Tifozat Kuq e Zi stands firm in the political view that Albanians should share only one national team and have continuous aspirations to join in one state (Një Komb, Një Kombëtare), i.e.
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Patrick Gilhooley (6 July 1876 – 20 February 1907) was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside forward in the Football League for Sheffield United, and in the Southern League for Tottenham Hotspur.Patrick Gilhooley - Fact File, My Eyes Have Seen The GloryPatrick Gilhooley, 11v11.com He had earlier played for Celtic, winning the Scottish Football League championship in 1897–98.(Celtic player) Gilhooley, Patrick, FitbaStats In the spring of 1898, Gilhooley played in a SFL representative team match(SFL player) Pat Gilhooley, London Hearts Supporters Club and in a Home Scots v Anglo-Scots international trial,Football.
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The Walks Stadium The club took over the Walks ground from King's Lynn, who had played there since being formed in 1881. Canvas screens were erected around the ground in 1892 to prevent people watching matches without paying. In 1893 a match was played against Wisbech Town under electric lights. A stand was built in 1896, although it was demolished in 1905, replaced by a 500-seat wooden grandstand built at a cost of £250. In the mid-1950s the Supporters Club installed terracing for 4,000 and 780 seats on the northern side of the pitch.
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On 3 September 2015, it was announced that O'Callaghan had been granted an early release from his Munster contract to join English Aviva Premiership side Worcester Warriors on a two-year contract. On 5 December 2015, O'Callaghan received the first red card of his career during Worcester's game against Leicester Tigers. In his first season with the club, O'Callaghan played in every Premiership game and was named the Supporters Club Player of the Season for 2016. In January 2017, O'Callaghan captained with Worcester for the first during their 2016–17 European Rugby Challenge Cup fixture against Russian side Enisei-STM.
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Blackburn Arena supports 3,200 spectators seated at each side of the ice, with standing room on the balcony behind the goal.The Hawks Nest , Tony Preece, July 2000 (accessed 20 March 2009) The rink is measured as 60m x 30m (197 ft x 98 ft).Blackburn Arena , National Ice Skating Association (accessed 20 March 2009) Home matches attract an average of around 700-800 fans. The team is supported by the Blackburn Hawks Supporters Club which has been formed by the joining of the Mohawks, a tribute to legendary player Steve Moria, which organises regular events for fans, and HawksF5.
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In October 2010, Giggs said he would "probably finish [his] career here [Old Trafford]," and that he could not see himself "dropping down leagues and playing at a lesser level." He said he wanted to go into coaching, describing the management of Manchester United or Wales as "the two ultimate jobs," and stating that he was halfway through his UEFA 'A' coaching licence. Ahead of his testimonial in 2011, Gary Neville revealed he would spend the proceeds towards a supporters club and hotel near Old Trafford. Despite objections from Manchester United, Neville's plans were approved in 2012.
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James Howie (19 March 1878 – January 1963) was a Scottish footballer who later became a manager. Born in Galston, Ayrshire, he joined Kilmarnock from local junior side Galston Athletic in 1898. He was in the side which won the 1898–99 Scottish Division Two title and the following season earned selection to the Scottish League representative side.(SFL player) James Howie, London Hearts Supporters Club He joined Kettering Town in 1901 then moved to Bristol Rovers the next season. Howie was signed by Newcastle United in May 1903 and between then and 1910 made 237 appearances for the club, scoring 83 goals.
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The song, however, has now spread around the world, starting when fans of the U.S. men's national team used the tune in their first match after the September 11 attacks in a World Cup qualifier in Foxborough, Massachusetts against Jamaica. Amongst the supporters' clubs which have used the tune have been those in Portsmouth, Leicester City F.C., Chicago Fire, VfL Bochum, Wellington Phoenix, Sydney FC and D.C. United. In fact, Section 8 Chicago, a supporters' club for Chicago Fire, supplied lyrics for the previously instrumental tune. Rugby League rivals St. Helen's RLFC and Wigan Warriors both play it after a successful try conversion.
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Speedway returned to the Stadium in 1946. The late 1940s was the sport’s heyday. The Wembley Lions supporters Club had 61,000 members in 1948, and one meeting attracted a crowd of 85,000, with a further 20,000 listening to the results on the radio outside. Speedway ended at Wembley in 1957, unless one counts a brief revival in 1970–71. The post-war years also saw religious events at the Stadium (a Roman Catholic celebration in 1950, a gathering of Jehovah’s Witnesses in 1951 and Billy Graham’s Greater London Crusade in 1954), as well as women’s hockey.
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Massey came through the underage ranks at Bray Wanderers and made the breakthrough to the senior team in 2008. He made his professional debut in a League of Ireland Cup tie against Shamrock Rovers in May 2008 and went on to play five times that season for the club. In 2009, Massey made 34 appearances and scored his first senior goal against Shamrock Rovers, before going on to score three more goals that season. Massey played 31 times for Bray in the 2010 season and was also named the Supporters' Club Player of the Month for April of that year.
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Gefle IF supporters during an away trip in 2012 to Råsunda Stadium where they played against AIK. Due to their status as a second or third division club the Gefle supporters were late starters in creating an organized supporters club. After some fledgeling attempts in the mid 1990s when the interest in traveling to away games increased, the "Sky Blues" was finally founded in 2001 as the official supporter group. In 2009 Gefle IF caused controversy among its fans by changing the sky blue home shirt to white, the color which the club played in during its first 80 years.
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The new manager was Croatian Vlado Macan, which achieved a mid-table finish with a squad made up of young local players. In January 2003, at a meeting in the “Total Football Bar” owned by founder member Rob Palmer in the Urbanización San Luis, a group of mainly British fans met and agreed to set up a supporters club. This group had been following the team all season (both home and away matches), and had helped to increase crowds at the ground from 100 or so to 5000. The name chosen was “The Torry Army”, and the first president was Eduardo "Eddie" Cagigao.
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Tucker was first named in the squad for the 2014 ITM Cup, however due to knee and shoulder injuries, he didn't get any game time during the season and had to wait until the following year for his provincial debut. He played 9 times for Waikato in a season in which they claimed the Ranfurly Shield and he was named as Waikato Supporters Club forward of the year. 2016 proved to be another tough year for him, with an ACL knee injury sustained in week 2 against ruling him out for the rest of the year.
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John Dickie Elliot Murphy (born 1898) was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. His first and longest senior spell was with Heart of Midlothian(Hearts player) John Murphy, London Hearts Supporters Club where he spent the better part of seven seasons (including brief loans at St Mirren and Hamilton Academical),Murphy, John (1925), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank followed by around a year at MotherwellJohn Murphy, MotherWELLnet and 18 months at Kilmarnock.(Kilmarnock player) Murphy, John, FitbaStats He then moved to the Irish leagues with Coleraine and Ballymena United in County Antrim then Dublin side Shelbourne.
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Stock Car racing started at the Dust Bowl Circuit in the mid 60s and was very successful, it created a new style of racing in the area bringing stock car drivers from as far afield as Dundee and Durban. Miles Crerar founded the Pietermarizburg Stockcar and Speedway Supporters Club. Most drivers were local, such as Clive and Nigel Owen, Alyn Woodley, Allan Hoy, Colin Clarke, Llew Futter, Gareth Bailey, Margaret Tyrer, Witty Boast, Bunny Dique, Lez Bromfield and Chris Currey. The sport went into decline in the late 70s and the circuit closed for good in 1981.
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A team called Manchester United Supporters Club Ladies began operations in the late 1970s and was unofficially recognised as the club's senior women's team. They became founding members of the North West Women's Regional Football League in 1989. The team made an official partnership with Manchester United in 2001, becoming the club's official women's team; however, in 2005, following Malcolm Glazer's takeover, the club was disbanded as it was seen to be "unprofitable". In 2018, Manchester United formed a new women's football team, which entered the second division of women's football in England for their debut season.
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On 7 January 2010, Backe was named manager of New York Red Bulls.RBNY names Hans Backe head coach After a blistering start to the 2010 season, club fans began to create shirts and flags with his likeness, and these honors culminated in the birth of the Hans Backe Viking Army, an offshoot of the Empire Supporters Club and Garden State Supporters. In his first season with New York he coached the team to an Eastern Conference first-place finish.Red Bulls clinch Eastern Conference Then on 9 November 2012, it was announced that Backe would not extend his contract with the Red Bulls.
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Despite scoring in both matches, he wasn't selected for international duty again, although he did also represent the Scottish League against the Irish League in 1934, scoring twice.SFL player Willie McFadyen, London Hearts Supporters Club After leaving Motherwell, he played for Huddersfield Town, for whom he appeared in the 1938 FA Cup Final, and Clapton Orient. In the 1939–40 season he appeared for Mossley making 16 appearances and scoring three goals. During the Second World War, he served in the Royal Air Force and was a guest player for Blackpool, Huddersfield, Nottingham Forest and Rochdale.
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In 1953 Clarke gave up playing full-time football at the age of 38 and looked for his first job in management. Yeovil Town in the Southern Football League were advertising for a new manager, The Supporters Club offered to help with the wages of the new appointee, and a tied house was thrown in. On 10 May 1953 Clarke became The Glover's fourth manager since the War. His first season in charge ended with Yeovil finishing third in the Southern League and Clarke himself made 48 appearances scoring 20 goals at the age of 36.
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The club's original name was Empire Soccer Club, which gave birth to the name of the team's largest supporters' group, Empire Supporters Club. The team's original owners were John Kluge and Stuart Subotnick. The name MetroStars was chosen in reference to Metromedia, the media company founded by Kluge, after Nike's original suggestion "MetroFlash" was rejected. The owners also considered but rejected buying the rights to the name "Cosmos". Tab Ramos, the first player to sign with MLS, became the first MetroStars player, and was soon joined by 1994 FIFA World Cup teammate Tony Meola and A.C. Milan star midfielder Roberto Donadoni.
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Stenhousemuir Supporters' Trust is the official supporters' club of Stenhousemuir FC. It is a democratic organisation based on one vote per person, and its committee is elected every year by the members. It is the largest shareholder in the club with about 11% of the shares with the aim to increase the shareholding so that no individual(s) can wrest the control of the club away from its supporters. The Kriss Akabusi Loyal is a band of dedicated home and traveling supporters. Stenhousemuir have a young group of fans that sing throughout the games to create an atmosphere known as the Stenny Bois.
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It works with the Board of the football club and the Supporters Club to develop a more successful football club. The annual membership subscription of the Trust is £5 but Trust members can take out either a 'silver' membership of £5 a month, or a 'gold' membership of £10 a month. The cash obtained from membership of the Trust is used to buy shares the football club has for sale, and hence the club benefits financially. Since its inception the Trust has given money to the club and its members have given their time and labour towards several projects.
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" Panorama responded to the criticism, saying: "England Fans, the official England Supporters' Club, travelling to Euro 2012 called the programme unhelpful and some Poles in the UK have expressed concern that they have been labelled as racist. But amid all of these accusations against Panorama and the BBC, there is a real fear that the key issue has been missed - the overt and frightening racist and anti-Semitic abuse and violence of the kind broadcast by Panorama is both wrong and deeply upsetting to those on its receiving end. That was the point of the programme. We set out to highlight a wrong.
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Following a period serving as a director of a local catering company, Swift took up a career in journalism, most notably with the News of the World. He continued to be a regular visitor to Maine Road, and became the president of the Supporters' Club. Swift died, aged 44, in the Munich air disaster after reporting on Manchester United's European Cup match against Red Star Belgrade in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the News of the World. On 6 February 1958, the flight back to Manchester carrying the Manchester United team and journalists made a refuelling stop at Munich- Riem Airport in poor weather.
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The Beit Jala Lions (Arabic:-لايونز بيت جالا) is a rugby union club situated in the town of Beit Jala near Bethlehem in the West Bank. The team was started in October 2007 by international rugby players and local guys and later encouraged by members of the Munster Supporters Club. Their first full match took place in March 2008 against the newly formed Ramallah Blue Snakes, in the town of al-Khader. In October 2008, the team travelled to Cyprus to take part in the Paphos Tag Rugby Tournament 2008, and play against the Paphos Tigers and Limassol Crusaders.
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Ngap Sayot is a colloquial Sarawakian phrase in football arena meaning "defeatable" which introduced by Sarawak FA new coach in 1988. The single was commercially used by the Sarawak FA largest supporters club, GB13 ultra, as background music for the promotional footage of their video. The cross-promotion video was released on 5 March 2014 via GB13 official YouTube channel. For a brief time in 2014, the band was headed to the studio to record their third full-length single album Ngap Sayot, which written in two different languages and multiple version tracks including chant and guitar instrumental version.
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After a visit of ROOD members to the occupied areas in Palestine, a declaration of friendship was signed with the football club Hapoel Bnei Sakhnin, by ROOD referred to as "FC Bnei Sakhnin". In the Netherlands, ROOD started a supporters club for this Arab Israeli club. ROOD also participated in the successful campaign against the European Constitution with the slogan "Zeg je ja of denk je na" ("do you say yes, or do you think?"). ROOD campaigning van In 2006 ROOD organised two electoral campaigns of its own, supporting the SP in the municipal elections and in the national elections.
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Cambuslang Hibernian entered the (senior) Scottish Cup four times between 1886 and 1889 (there was no national league competition in place at the time of their formation). Their best result was in 1886-87 when they defeated Cowdenbeath and Hamilton Academical before losing to Vale of Leven.Cambuslang Hibernian [in Scottish Cup], London Hearts Supporters Club Their final participation was in 1893-94 when they were knocked out by Clyde, although by that time they had also registered in the Junior setup. Due to Cambuslang's location just outside Glasgow within Lanarkshire, the club could enter both the Glasgow Cup and the Lanarkshire Cup.
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Between 1992 and 2011, Mourneview Park underwent a number of significant renovations, including the building of three new seated stands. Mourneview Park has been used by the Irish Football Association to host neutral matches in the past. In 2003, the Irish Football Association removed Mourneview Park as a potential semi-final host for the Irish Cup because of rioting between fans of Glentoran and Portadown. Mourneview Park has previously been attacked by arsonists, including in 2005 when a petrol bomb was thrown into a supporters club bar which destroyed it, leading to Glenavon considering closing Mourneview Park because of the continuous damage.
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In 2004, Demis Nikolaidis and other significant AEK followers formed a supporters' club Enosis 1924 (Union 1924) in order to motivate all AEK supporters into taking up the club's shares and governance. The project was not fully realised because, in the meantime, various businessmen decided to buy shares and invest money in the club. However, to this date, Enosis 1924's chairman is member of the AEK FC board. The same year, Nikos Goumas Stadium, AEK's home stadium for over 70 years was demolished, because a big part of it was beaten from 1999 Athens earthquake.
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He struggled badly with depression, and was a heavy user of alcohol and drugs during this time, engaged in self-harm, and contemplated suicide at times.Radio National, The Sports Factor (transcript), "Athletes and Depression", 10 March 2006, Retrieved 18 April 2011. Late in the year and at the height of his depression, Bowyer traveled to the Greek islands on his own, where he almost lost his life after his left arm was badly cut by glass; the exact nature of this incident has not been publicly discussed.Pierik, J., Herald Sun , "Bowyer goes to hell and back, via Greek Islands", published in Carlton Supporters Club, 31 July 2004, Retrieved 18 April 2011.
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National League Division one 2009; All Star 2005, 2007, 2008; She was an All Star nominee in 2006,2006 All Star Nominees Wexford Supporters' Club player of the year 2008; Ashbourne All Star 2005, 2006; Ashbourne Cup player of the tournament 2005; Junior Gael Linn Cup with Leinster 2001; Senior Gael Linn Cup with Leinster 2006; All- Ireland Junior Colleges with Coláiste Bríde 2000; Leinster Under-16 2000; Leinster Senior 2001, 2004, 2007; Leinster Junior 2003; Club Senior 'B' 2004, 2008; Purple and Gold Star 2008. Because she spent six months travelling abroad her third All Star award was collected on her behalf by her sister, Liz.
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Manchester City has various supporters' clubs such as MCFC Official Supporters' Club. In July 2010, it unified with the Centenary Supporters' Association and in 2014 has over 14,000 members in over 150 branches. Since 2010, City has run a 'Heart of the City' scheme, in which non-UK based pubs and bars which have become host to sizable supporters clubs are recognised with a Blue Moon design blue plaque. As of May 2013, the club has awarded the Heart of the City plaque to establishments in Abu Dhabi, Baltimore, Brisbane, Chicago, Donegal, Frisco, Galway, Gothenburg, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, New York City, Oslo, Paris, Portland, Sydney Toronto.
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His wins came on rides aboard Benefficient, Our Conor in the Triumph Hurdle and Ted Veale and his total number of wins was only one behind that of Ruby Walsh. He managed to place 4th in the Grand National at Aintree but his season was cut short after he broke his femur while riding at Down Royal. It was announced on 3 January 2014 that Cooper is to take over the position of retained jockey for Gigginstown House Stud from the 2012/13 Irish Champion Jockey Davy Russell. Cooper had his first winner for the stud riding Toner D’Oudairies at the Listed Thurles Racecourse Supporters Club Chase on 6 January 2014.
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He made 175 appearances for Rangers and scored 38 goals.(Rangers player) Main, Bobby, FitbaStats He left Ibrox in May 1939 aged 30 and joined New Brighton, but the outbreak of the Second World War curtailed his football career. He played once for Scotland in 1937 against Wales, having been part of a SFA tour of North America two years earlier, playing in five matches including two unofficial internationals against the United States.(Scotland player - including unofficial matches) Robert Main, London Hearts Supporters Club He also played for the Scottish Football League XI on three occasions, facing the English Football League XI each time.
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Hearts Wilson Cup Results, London Hearts Supporters Club Initially intended to be a trophy for the winner of the annual New Year Scottish Football League fixture between the clubs before becoming a challenge match in its own right, on a few occasions the game was played as part of a 'double header', also counting for the East of Scotland Shield. In May 1919 the 2nd leg of the Shield counted as the Wilson Cup final replay. In May 1920 the Shield replay counted as the final of the Wilson Cup and in 1921 it counted as the semi-final of the Shield as well.
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Carl Kirwan (born 21 March 1991) is an English rugby union player who plays for Nottingham in the RFU Championship. Kirwan came through the Newcastle Falcons academy, previously spent two years at Rotherham Titans following a spell with hometown club Middlesbrough. Kirwan made a significant impact during his campaigns at London Welsh previously captained the side, scoring eight tries in 24 Championship appearances and helped the club beat Bristol to win promotion to the Aviva Premiership, and was subsequently named Supporters Club Player of the Year. On 16 June 2015, Kirwan left London Welsh to sign for Worcester Warriors in the Aviva Premiership from the 2015-16 season.
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The 2020 group is a grouping of around 40 centre-right Conservative MPs.Centre-left Tory MPs launch Cameron supporters club, Michael Crick The 2020 group was set up by Greg Barker and George Freeman in 2011 to provide a Parliamentary forum for Conservative MPs from the progressive centre ground. Seeking to draw on the career experiences and insights of newly elected MPs, and focusing on the longer-term social and economic changes and challenges confronting the intake - rather than the traditional 'silos' of Whitehall portfolios - the group sought to develop a number of policy 'themes' and ideas. Some of these ideas were later represented in the 2015 Conservative Manifesto.
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The Bytown Boys Supporters Club was formed in April 2011 in response to news of an expansion Canadian Soccer League franchise being awarded to Ottawa. Originally known as the Capital City Supporters Group, the club showed support for Capital City until they announced they would no longer compete in the league in March 2012. The following month, it was announced that the group had reached an agreement with the Ottawa Fury, a Premier Development League club who would become a North American Soccer League expansion team in the near future. In 2013, the Bytown Boys also showed support for the Ottawa Fury Women in the USL W-League.
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Naxxar F.C. was relegated two divisions and Zammit Tabona was suspended from the club presidency (which was offered to his wife), until he was reinstated two years later. Naxxar F.C. earned its budget of 35,000 Maltese lira per year from the income of the club bar in the village square, as well as control of parking lots at the annual trade fair, and supporters' club barbeques. Zammit Tabona is reported to have personally invested in the club 40 to 50,000 Lm per season, including for the wages and accommodation of foreign players. After having got at best second behind Valletta F.C., Zammit Tabona resigned in April 2000.
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This centre was the Early Cancer Trials Unit in the Northern Centre for Cancer Care (NCCC), one of the largest cancer centres in the United Kingdom. The unit was to be part of the consolidation of the NCCC into a new £80 million centre being built at the Freeman Hospital. Parts of the new NCCC site opened in October 2008, and it was due to be fully open by early 2009. The 28 December 2008 football match at St James' Park between Newcastle United and Liverpool was designated the Sir Bobby Robson day by the Newcastle United Supporters Club, celebrating the man and raising funds for the foundation.
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The lack of revenue for the club almost saw it go under and it meant that due to non-payment of players several walked out on the club Tommy Callinan took over in a player-manager role, and left at the end of the 2000–01 season. Next to try his hand was Chris Burns, who was tempted back from Forest Green Rovers and brought with him a largely untried bunch of young players to fit in with the limited wage structure. In November 2001, ex- director Colin Gardner returned to the club to take over the chairmanship. Working hand in hand with the Supporters' Club, together they steadied the ship.
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Lowe was not able to prevent a second successive relegation as Hyde finished bottom of the league, returning to the Northern Premier League after ten years in the Football Conference. At the end of the season Hyde's deal with Manchester City ended, and the club's name reverted to Hyde United. On 27 June 2015, the club announced that John Manship had offered to hand over control of the club, it had been successfully taken over by the Hyde United Supporters Club. At the end of March 2016 with Hyde United just 3 points above the drop zone, the decision was taken to part ways with manager Gary Lowe.
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Jack Peddie appearances, London Hearts Supporters Club Peddie missed the semi-final victory over Queen's Park due to a knee injury that eventually ended his career. In May 1907, Peddie received considerable treatment for the knee injury and was back in the team at the start of the 1907–08 season; however, the injury kept flaring up and he played only 23 first-team matches during his final two seasons, scoring five goals. When James McGhee replaced William Waugh as Hearts manager in April 1908, Peddie was transfer listed at £100. He emigrated to Canada in 1908, before eventually moving to the United States and settling in Detroit.
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Sir Alf Ramsey Way, formerly Portman's Walk, is a street running along the north side of Ipswich's Portman Road stadium, that was named after Ramsey shortly after his death in honour of his achievements as Ipswich Town manager. In 2000, a statue of Ramsey was erected on the corner of the street named after him and Portman Road, at the North Stand/Cobbold Stand corner of the stadium. The statue was commissioned by the Ipswich Town Supporters' Club after an initial idea by local fan Seán Salter. On 31 March 2012, the South Stand at Portman Road was renamed to the Sir Alf Ramsey Stand.
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The official supporters club is FOREVERTON, and there are also several fanzines including When Skies are Grey and Speke from the Harbour, which are sold around Goodison Park on match days. Merseyside derby in 2012, Everton's Sylvain Distin defending against Liverpool's Luis Suárez Everton regularly take large numbers away from home both domestically and in European fixtures. The club implements a loyalty points scheme offering the first opportunity to purchase away tickets to season ticket holders who have attended the most away matches. Everton often sell out the full allocation in away grounds, and tickets sell particularly well for North West England away matches.
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An outside left, Wilson began his career with a series of local Fife clubs, including then non-league Cowdenbeath. In 1903 he signed for First Division Heart of Midlothian, at that time struggling due to financial concerns. An economic restructuring in 1905 revitalised the club though, and Wilson was a regular in the side(Hearts player) George Wilson, London Hearts Supporters Club as Hearts finished 2nd in the league and won the Scottish Cup in 1905–06 – he scored the winning goal in the final against holders Third Lanark, a tap-in in the 81st minute after a Bobby Walker shot had been blocked.Association Football.
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The Waseda University Library system generally limits access to students, faculty, research fellows, alumni association members, and Waseda Supporters Club members (with a donation of ￥30,000). However, with a letter of introduction from another university library requesting access to specific materials, entry is possible. Additionally, student/faculty ID holders from Keio University, Doshisha University, Hitotsubashi University, and Kansai University can access the library without a letter of introduction. Students from some foreign universities may be able to apply for privileged access if Waseda University has signed an agreement with that university, but in May 2014 there was no reference to these agreements on the Waseda Library website.
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Released when Saunders reduced the size of the squad, Linney rejoined Smith at Oxford United, where he played 37 games in all competitions in the 1982–83 season, of which 26 were in the Third Division. Linney joined Yeovil Town, then playing in the Alliance Premier League, in 1983. At the end of the 1983–84 season, Yeovil's supporters' club voted him their Player of the Year. Yeovil were relegated the next season to the Isthmian League Premier Division, after which Linney contributed to two consecutive runners-up spots before they finally won the Isthmian League title and promotion back to the top level of non-league football in 1987–88.
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After a training camp near Nice in southern France Simpson rode in the one-day Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne in Belgium, finishing second to 's Arthur Decabooter. The conditions were so cold, he only completed the race to keep warm. Albert Beurick started Simpson's supporters club at the Café Den Engel, raising £250 for him in the first nine months. In Paris–Nice, his tyre punctured during stage four, losing five minutes and used the rest of the race for training. Profile of the 1964 Milan–San Remo, which Simpson won, riding his second season with On 19 March, two days later, Simpson rode in Milan–San Remo.
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Maxwell was born in Arbroath and began his career as an amateur playing for Hearts Strollers, Arbroath, Heart of Midlothian(Hearts player) Willie Maxwell, London Hearts Supporters Club and Dundee whilst working as a solicitor's clerk. He was persuaded by Stoke manager Bill Rowley to become professional and he did so joining the Potters in the summer of 1895. Maxwell scored on his Stoke debut on the opening day of the 1895–96 season, in a 2–0 win over Bolton Wanderers. He initially had to bide his time as fellow Scottish forwards Billy Dickson and Tommy Hyslop were established in the first team.
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The club was founded in 1995 by members of the New York City Firm (NYCF), a supporters group for the short- lived A-League New York Centaurs, in anticipation of a Major League Soccer franchise starting play in the New York/New Jersey metro area. To reflect the initial franchise name, Empire Soccer Club, the supporters chose to name themselves the Empire Supporters Club. By the start of the inaugural year the team owners had elected to call the team the New York/New Jersey MetroStars. Since its founding, the variety of backgrounds amongst club members has influenced the style of the group in the stands.
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Supporters at a Reading match at Elm Park in 1913 In 1930, the Reading Football Supporters’ Club (RFSC) was formed to represent the interests of supporters of the club and to assist in raising funds for the football club. On 18 March 2002, the Supporters' Trust at Reading become the official successor to the RFSC. In 2001, Reading became the first football club to register their fans as an official member of their squad, giving the "player" registered with squad number 13 as 'Reading Fans'. For the 2015–16 season, Reading had 12,983 season ticket holders – ranked tenth in the Championship and almost identical to former league champions Leeds United.
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Charles McGill (3 February 1903 – 1988) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back.(Hearts player) Charles McGill, London Hearts Supporters Club He spent much of his career in the United States, most of it with Fall River Marksmen,Charlie McGill, SoccerStats.us where he won the American Soccer League three times (1925–26, 1928–29 and 1930). He returned to Scotland in 1931 where he spent seven years with Aberdeen, being part of the team that finished in third place in 1935–36 Scottish Division One table and runners-up in 1936–37, although he was not selected for the 1937 Scottish Cup Final.
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Dougall was born in Denny, Stirlingshire and played for Dunipace as a youth before moving to England to join Burnley of the Football League First Division in October 1926, aged 17. He broke into the first team in the following season when he replaced the well-established inside-left, Joe Devine, for six matches, scoring twice. With Devine the first-choice for the No. 10 shirt, Dougall spent most of his time at Turf Moor in the reserves, and in February 1929 he returned to Scotland to join Clyde. In September 1929, Dougall was signed by Southampton, with his transfer fee being met by the Saints Supporters Club.
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The club took up residence at Kings Road, also known as the Cemetery Road ground, in 1888. It became the first football ground in East Anglia to operate floodlights, when on 12 January 1953, Bury played their first ever floodlit game against Cambridge City in front of 2,105 spectators. A total of 14 bulbs of 1,500 watts were used, with the lights financed by the Bury Town Supporters Club. The club's last match at Kings Road was played on 30 April 1976, a 2–2 draw against a West Ham United team with 1,750 in attendance; the land on which the ground was located was required to build a new road.
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However, he decided that he wanted to retire while still capable of playing at the top level, rather than fading away. To this end he announced that he would retire at the end of the 1948–49 season. He made what he intended to be his last Manchester City appearance against Huddersfield Town on 7 May,James, The Official Manchester City Hall of Fame, p74 which was followed by a parade in his honour organised by the Supporters' Club. However, just before the next season started, Swift's replacement Alec Thurlow fell ill with tuberculosis, and Swift agreed to step in until City found a new goalkeeper.
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The Tartan Army were awarded a Fair Play prize by the Belgian Olympic Committee after a 2002 FIFA World Cup qualifier in Brussels. The fans had been praised by the mayor of Zagreb for their behaviour after a match against Croatia in the same competition. In April 2002, during the joint bid by Scotland and Ireland to host the UEFA Euro 2008 tournament, First Minister of Scotland Jack McConnell cited the "worldwide reputation" of the Tartan Army as a strength of the bid, stating that other countries welcome their arrival "with open arms". In 2005, the Scotland Travel Club became the Scotland Supporters Club, with sections for younger fans being established.
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Attendances during the 2003–04 season, Wimbledon's last, were higher than those at AFC Wimbledon: Wimbledon averaged 4,751 at the National Hockey Stadium, compared to AFC Wimbledon's 2,606. The club had two main supporters organisations– the long established official Wimbledon F.C. Supporters Club, which was tied to the club, and the more radical Wimbledon Independent Supporters Association (WISA) which was founded in 1995. The WISA was instrumental in the organisation of the supporter boycotts at Selhurst Park, and in the formation of The Dons Trust in March 2002. This trust, created in part to oppose the relocation to Milton Keynes, helped the WISA to found AFC Wimbledon months after its own establishment.
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He commentated rugby sevens at the Rio Olympics in August 2016. That was his tenth Summer Olympic Games. He has also attended the Paralympics three times 2000-2008 (in Sydney, Athens and Beijing) In 2014, he was flown by Emirates Airlines to Dubai to speak at the Dubai 'Long Lunch' along with former England rugby star Matt Dawson. Apart from his regular appearances speaking in New Zealand he has spoken in South Africa (at the Wanderers Club in Johannesburg), in London (at The Rugby Club), in Sydney, in Hong Kong and in one of his most memorable places for the SCRUM Club (Supporters Club Rugby Union in Morobe) in Lae in Northern Papua New Guinea.
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Charles John Cox (19 February 1926 – 15 December 2008) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right half for Heart of MidlothianHearts player Charlie Cox, London Hearts Supporters' Club and Motherwell.Charlie Cox, MotherWELLnet Having started out with Hearts before their successful period later in the decade, he won the Scottish Cup with Motherwell in 1952 only a few months after moving to Lanarkshire along with Tommy Sloan, and although the club was relegated the following season, he was still in the team when they gained promotion immediately as 1953–54 Scottish Division Two winners. He also took part in the 1954 Scottish League Cup Final, a defeat to his former employers. His career was latterly interrupted by injuries.
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In 2006, Bastock took a position as part-time goalkeeping coach with Boston United, continuing to play for St Albans until May 2007 when he joined Rushden & Diamonds after St Alban's relegation from the Conference. However, he was released by Rushden in February 2008 and rejoined St Albans City the following month. Within six games of returning was named Conference South Player of the Month He played a crucial role in helping St Albans escape a further relegation and was named as the Supporters Club Player of the Year at the end of the season, only the second player to with the honour twice. Bastock rejoined former club Boston United, in March 2011.
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Towards the end of the century, the growth of industry had turned the village of Homerton into a manufacturing centre, lowering the quality of life of the students and leading to seven deaths between 1878 and 1885 from tuberculosis, smallpox and typhoid. Also, increasing numbers of students required more space. In 1881 former students of Homerton College who were members of Glyn Cricket Club formed a football section to help keep their players fit during the winter months. The football section continued to grow over the ensuing years and is now Leyton Orient Football Club – a fact acknowledged by an annual match between the college's football team and that of the Leyton Orient Supporters Club.
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For the 2016-17 season the club's average attendance was 376, third highest in the Isthmian League Division One South, behind Guernsey and Lewes respectively. The Hastings United Supporters Club runs fundraising events for club in the clubhouse and more recently in the newly acquired Sports and Social Club, such as regular quiz nights and parties. The club charges a membership fee to join and is run by a committee voted for by members. Under the reigns of new CEO Billy Wood the club's average attendance in 2019-20 season was 607, making Hastings United the 11th largest supported team in the country in the National League System from Step 3 downwards.
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David Wilson (born 31 January 1881) was a Scottish footballer who played as an inside left. Born in Fife, he originally played for local teams including Cowdenbeath and East Fife, as well as a spell in England with Gainsborough Trinity, before joining Heart of Midlothian in 1904,(Hearts player) David Wilson, London Hearts Supporters Club following the path taken by his younger brother George who had signed for the Edinburgh club a year earlier. He was loaned back out to Gainsborough Trinity before becoming an increasingly regular figure in the Hearts side, culminating in an appearance in the 1906 Scottish Cup Final, won by his team with a goal from George Wilson.Association Football.
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Harvey moved to Nottingham in the 1960s in order to teach English and Drama at Heanor Aldercar Secondary School in South East Derbyshire. Towards the end of the 1960s he left Nottingham to teach first in Andover, Hampshire, and then in Stevenage, Herts, returning to Nottingham to study for an MA in the Department of American Studies at the University of Nottingham. . On 14 July 2009 he received an honorary degree (Doctor of Letters) from the University of Nottingham in recognition of his literary eminence and his associations with both the university and Nottingham (particularly in the Charlie Resnick novels). He is a Notts County F.C. fan and honorary member of its supporters club.
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At the start of the 1998–99 season, the team found themselves competing in yet another new league, the English League Premier Division. This was a league set up for teams that wanted to compete effectively, but on a smaller budget than those in the British National League. The Hawks competed against teams such as Solihull, Swindon and Milton Keynes, and reverted to the previous name, the Blackburn Hawks, thanks to the pressure put on the management team at the Supporters Club annual general meeting that took place in the Arena bar in May 1998. Jim Pennycook was invited back to the Arena in a playing capacity but Arena management were to look elsewhere for a coach this season.
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In 2013, Giggs and Neville launched a hospitality company named GG Hospitality, with plans to build football-themed hotels and cafés around the United Kingdom, initially in Manchester and London. The first operation was a football-themed restaurant named Café Football in Stratford, London, which opened in November 2013, with Hotel Football, previously under the guise of the supporters club Neville announced in 2011, scheduled to be opened in late 2014. In 2014, it was announced that Giggs, along with fellow Manchester United legends Gary Neville, Paul Scholes, Nicky Butt and Phil Neville, had agreed a deal to purchase Salford City ahead of the 2014–15 season. with plans to get the club to the Football League.
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Fans and businessmen of the area resurrected the team, naming it Bridgend Ravens as the name Bridgend RFC was still owned by Samuel. Financial problems at Pontypridd RFC led to the sale of their half of the Warriors to Leighton Samuel for £100,000; which he gifted to the WRU, his attempt to become sole owner of the club having been blocked by the WRU. Samuel's attempt to buy Sardis Road's ground lease to be an all-seater stadium for the Celtic Warriors was rejected by the Pontypridd's trustees. Games were moved away from Sardis Road to Brewery Field on commercial grounds, which led to threats of legal action from Pontypridd Supporters Club.
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Watford's kit has changed considerably over the course of the club's history. The club's kit featured various combinations of red, green and yellow stripes, before a new colour scheme of black and white was adopted for the 1909–10 season. These colours were retained until the 1920s, when the club introduced an all-blue shirt. After a change of colours to gold shirts and black shorts for 1959–60, the team's nickname was changed to The Hornets, after a popular vote via the supporters club. These colours remained until 1976, when Watford's kits started featuring red, and the gold was changed to yellow. That colour scheme has continued into the 21st century.
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Steve became a crowd favourite, not just by riding but by living locally and getting involved off-track, such as dee-jaying at the Supporters Club, and, in Easter 1976, taking chocolate eggs to the children's ward of the John Radcliffe Hospital. With Cliff Anderson, he worked on track maintenance, looking after safety features such as boarding up the wire fencing, which had to be put up and taken down at every meeting so as not to obscure the view of the greyhound track on their race nights.Lawson,K (2018) “The Cheetahs – The Resurrection”. Before speedway, Steve had been a Private in the Royal Corps of Signals, following an apprenticeship as a Hydraulic Fitter.
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In the late 1995, the Grand Bleu was organised as the supporter club of the Bluewings. Originally, the name of the supporters club was CyberWings, but it changed its name to the current name a few years later. With their two general mottos, "The First & The Best" and "우리가 가면 길이 된다" (English: "Our path becomes the true path)", the Grand Bleu has now grown as the largest supporters' groups in the K-League. In May 2012, the Grand Blue and Highland Este merged and re-launched the name 'Frente Tricolor', and the name 'Grand Bleu' is dedicated to Suwon citizens, and everyone who supports the Suwon Blue Wings is called 'Grand Bleu'.
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While Ionikos was competing in the lower divisions there were two main supporters' groupsthe Association of Ionikos Nikaias Supporters and the Fan Club of Agios Georgios. On Ionikos's promotion to the top division the Association of Ionikos Nikaias Supporters Rangers Club was formedor Rangers Club, for shortwith headquarters in Elefterias Square in Korydallos. Before Ionikos's first match in the top flight the Rangers Club organised a parade of 2,000 supporters from outside Rangers' headquarters to Stavros Mavrothalassitis Stadium, where Ionikos played its first three home matches of the 1989–90 season. Two years later the supporters' club offices moved to Neapolis, and then in 1996 to Nikaia, before returning to Neapolis in 1999.
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Sunderland A.F.C. have one of the oldest fan bases in England, starting from its creation in 1879. In 2019 it was reported that despite being in League One, Sunderland's average gates were higher than those of such teams as Lyon, Napoli, Roma, Valencia, Juventus, and Porto. There are over 70 branches of official Supporters' Clubs in England and around the world, including North America, which started in 2013; Scotland; South Africa; Germany; a united Danish and Irish Supporters Branch; a separate Dublin supporters club; Australia; United Arab Emirates; Switzerland; and even North Korea. The club had an official quarterly magazine, called the Legion of Light, which season ticket holders received at no cost.
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Mark Sorenson (born 5 April 1979) is a former New Zealand rugby union player, his position of choice being a lock. Sorenson joined Northampton from Newcastle Falcons in the summer of 2010, having previously joined the Falcons in the autumn of 2006 from New Zealand province Bay of Plenty, where he had been voted the team's best forward in the Air New Zealand Cup. He was a consistent performer at Kingston Park and won both the Supporters Club player of the season and the players' player of the season award in 2007/8. On 14 February 2013, Sorensen left Northampton Saints to join Bristol Rugby in the RFU Championship for the 2013/14 season.
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Robert Harvey (born 23 May 1955)Opposition player Bobby Harvey, London Hearts Supporters Club is a Scottish former footballer who played as a forward. He played for Clyde during the 1970s, making 72 appearances (13 goals) in the Scottish Football League. He had played in an under-18 Schoolboy international for Scotland while a pupil at Holy Cross High School in HamiltonWee Scots in dour battle Evening Times, 13 May 1973 (via Partick Thistle History Archive) and later played at Junior level for Bellshill Athletic after leaving Clyde.Clyde: 1946/47 - 2013/14 , Post War English & Scottish Football League A - Z Player's Transfer Database After retiring from playing, Harvey retained an interest in football.
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Hanlon played primarily for Hamilton Academical – he signed for the Accies as a teenager in 1913 a week after being selected for Scotland at junior level, featuring regularly for much of that time. He moved to Heart of Midlothian in 1916(Hearts player) John Hanlon, London Hearts Supporters Club but only played in one Scottish Football League match during his initial three years at Tynecastle Park and was away from the club for much of the time serving in World War I. He returned to Hamilton in late 1919 (and was a Lanarkshire Cup winner in 1920) then signed for Hearts again in 1922, but failed to become established there, serving lower-division loans at Bathgate and Alloa Athletic.
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White joined Southampton for a transfer fee of £800, of which £375 was contributed by the Southampton Supporters Club, replacing Tommy Allen who had moved on in the summer. White was described as "very much a student of the game", who concentrated for the full 90 minutes of every game. He made his debut away to Hull City on 25 August 1928 and his arrival helped restore confidence in a defence that had leaked 77 goals in the previous season. He only missed two matches in the 1928–29 season at the end of which the "Saints" achieved their highest league finish to date, fourth in the Second Division, with 60 goals conceded.
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The determination of a number of club directors and former player Syd Fieldus saw the club remain alive yet dormant during the war years. Fieldus was appointed secretary-manager, and attended the first post-war Southern League meeting during the summer of 1945. Following late changes to the structure of the competitions, where a national league was created over an Eastern and Western division, the club were close to pulling out of the competition entirely, risking falling further down the football pyramid. However, the club were to remain after the supporters club pledged to fund an average of £50 required for away travel to the likes of Cardiff City, Hereford United and Worcester City.
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Gradel with Leicester in 2008 He made his league debut for Leicester against Milton Keynes Dons on 9 August 2008, setting up a goal as Leicester won 2–0 at the Walkers Stadium. On 14 August, Gradel signed a new contract that would last until June 2012. He scored his first senior goal in a 2–1 FA Cup defeat to Crystal Palace on 14 January 2009, and his first league goal in a 2–2 draw against MK Dons on 28 February, scoring an equalising free- kick at injury time. His free kick away at MK Dons won the Goal of the Season award at the Leicester City Supporters Club Awards on 23 April.
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The teams do not compete for a trophy like many of the older MLS rivalries, although one is planned for the 2020 season. Despite both teams appearing in the MLS Cup Playoffs since 2016, the teams have not yet met in a playoff match. On July 12, 2019, three supporters groups—Empire Supporters Club and Viking Army from the Red Bulls, and The Third Rail from NYCFC—announced the formation of the Hudson River Derby Foundation, a non-profit corporation two years in the making, that will "grow, manage, and administer the annual Hudson River Derby competition" between the two clubs, and will develop a physical trophy to present to the annual winner.
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In November 2014, Moussi signed a two-month deal with Football League Championship club Birmingham City. Following his signing, he pledged to donate all his salary to four charities: the Birmingham City Disabled Supporters Club, Stop Ebola, a church in Paris () and the TEV Soma Charity, which was raising money to help victims of the Soma mine disaster in Turkey. He made his debut as a second-half substitute in the Championship match at home to Reading on 13 December, with Birmingham already 6–1 ahead. He had little opportunity to force himself into a stable first team, and his contract was not extended, his final appearance coming at his former employers Nottingham Forest, where he received a good reception from the Forest fans.
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Gaínza's older brother, Miguel (1920–86), was also a footballer. A defender, he too played for Athletic Bilbao, and also for Barakaldo CF. It was reported that as a child Agustín was not interested in football and had to be encouraged to play the game by Miguel, and even when approached by Athletic in his teens was reluctant to take it up as a career, with his brother persuading him to agree terms. Two bronze busts of Gaínza were created by the sculptor José Manuel Alberdi in 1997. One was displayed outside his family home in Basauri (having been donated to the town by the local supporters' club), and the other was situated at the Athletic Bilbao training headquarters at Lezama.
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As the transfer window was closing, the Port Vale Supporters' Club unanimously gave a vote of no confidence in Smurthwaite and elected to begin formal protests against his ownership. During this time the club was serving players unsold pies from matchdays in order to save money. Smurthwaite went on to issue a statement to condemn "disgraceful abuse" he had received and to urge supporters to not to use "inappropriate language" during protests and to consider the effect of protests on the club and the players; he stated that he was only involved in "major" decisions at the club and left day-to-day decisions to CEO Colin Garlick. He went on to name John Askey as the club's new manager on 4 February.
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Phil Jagielka, who won the award for three consecutive years, in 2005, 2006 and 2007 The Sheffield United F.C. Player of the Year is an annual award presented to players of Sheffield United on behalf of the club's fans to recognise an outstanding contribution to the previous season. First presented in 1967 the award was organised by the Official Supporters Club and voted for by its members. The award was officially recognised and commemorated by the club and since the late 1990s has been presented at a gala dinner. From around 2000 the award was widened to include voting from the general fanbase and various other awards have also been presented including Young Player of the Year and Goal of the Season.
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"It would seem hypocritical to some degree, in light of the Glazer events, if a team came into being by taking over another club," said Chairman of RMI Supporters' Club Peter Lowe at the time. The 2005–06 season saw the club finish second from bottom in the Conference North, and the club thereby faced relegation to the Northern Premier League, but RMI gained yet another reprieve from relegation after Canvey Island resigned from the Conference National. In the 2006–07 campaign, RMI avoided relegation more easily, despite finishing 17th and in the bottom half of Conference North. As of 6 October 2007, Leigh RMI were again facing a relegation fight as they stood on the threshold of the relegation zone in 19th place.
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On March 8, 2015, 62,510 people were in attendance for Orlando's home opener versus New York City FC, a record of any expansion team, and finished the year with the second-highest average attendance figures behind only Seattle Sounders FC, again setting a new record for an expansion team. The club has two major active supporters groups, which combine forces on game days to create "The Wall" now housed in the safe standing section: The Ruckus and The Iron Lion Firm. The Ruckus is the oldest of these groups founded in 2010, original formed in 2009 as the "Orlando Soccer Supporters Club" without an affiliation to any particular soccer team. The Iron Lion Firm separated from The Ruckus prior to the start of City's first season.
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Chesterfield were keen to secure a permanent transfer for Dudfield following his successful loan spell however due to the reputation he was forming for himself other clubs came in for him and in June 2001 Hull City broke their transfer record to bring Dudfield to the club by signing him for over £250,000. He spent two successful seasons at Hull City playing 59 times, scoring 17 goals and becoming a firm fans favourite so much so that he still regularly guests on local sports shows in the area as well as occasionally taking up co-commentary duty on Hull City's EPL and EFL games for BBC Humberside. In the 2001/2002 season Dudfield's performances earned him the annual Supporters Club Player of the Year Award.
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Luckett eventually regained his place at left-half in early March. With age now catching up on Woodhouse, Luckett retained the No. 6 shirt for 1934–35 only missing four matches as the Saints struggled both on and off the pitch, finishing only two places above the relegation zone and needing two borrow £200 from the Supporters Club to help finance the summer wage bill. Luckett made 18 appearances at the start of the 1935–36 season, before an ankle injury put him out for several months, with Woodhouse once again replacing him. After two attempts at a return to first-team action, Luckett retired in the summer of 1937, having made 219 appearances over ten years, scoring 10 goals.
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In his later life he was troubled by ill-health, caused by injuries to his legs in his footballing days, and took early retirement. Nevertheless, he was one of the few founding members of Arsenal to live to see the club's rise to success in the 1930s; he reportedly cheered the side's 1936 FA Cup win from his sickbed, while listening to the radio commentary. After many years of ill-health, he died in a hospice in Warwick in 1948, at the age of 85 and was buried at London Road Cemetery in Coventry. In 2007, to commemorate his role in the club's history, the Arsenal Scotland Supporters Club dedicated a blue plaque to Danskin, near his birthplace in Burntisland.
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Likewise, the first supporters group for New York, the Empire Supporters Club also formed in 1995, making the three fan clubs amongst the oldest in modern-day American soccer, the first version of super-fans seen in American soccer since the late 1970s/early 1980s during the North American Soccer League era. Over the years, several other supporters groups have sprouted to support D.C. United and the New York Red Bulls. Since 1996, La Norte and the District Ultras formed in support of D.C. United. Likewise the Garden State Ultras, a group of Red Bull fans based in New Jersey, and the Viking Army, named in tribute to former Red Bull coach, Hans Backe and his Scandinavian roots, have formed.
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Djurgården primarily play their home games at Hovet, an older arena built in the 1950s with a capacity of 8,094, but high-profile matches such as derbies against AIK and playoff games may be played in the Ericsson Globe with its larger capacity of 13,850. Djurgården have retired nine players' jerseys in their history, and have retired the number 2 twice, since both Roland Stoltz and Charles Berglund had worn the number before retiring jerseys became well-established in Sweden. The most common nicknames for the team are "Järnkaminerna" (The Iron Stoves), "Stockholms stolthet" (The Pride of Stockholm) and "Mesta mästarna" (The Winners of Most Championships). Djurgården also has a supporters' club called Järnkaminerna, which it shares with the football department.
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Reading Football Supporters’ Club (RFSC) was founded in December 1930, largely through the inspiration of a local journalist Mr H Sirett, at a time when the football club was financially hard-pressed and facing relegation from Division Two. The first meeting was in the Railway Tavern, Greyfriars Road. Though relegation happened RFSC continued to raise funds on an extensive basis, donating funds to buy a forward (Tommy Tait) through providing refreshments in the Elm Park ground and improving the terraced accommodation. In the post-war years RFSC ran the football club's offices and an extremely successful lottery scheme. The RFSC chairman, Jim Brooks, was also for a time on the board of Reading FC such was the supporters’ club's financial contribution.
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Born in Derry, Shields was a Northern Ireland youth international. He started his professional career in Belfast with Crusaders and was part of the Crusaders side which claimed their first major honour, the 1953–54 Ulster Cup. He was rewarded with an inter-league appearance (in a 5–0 defeat by the Football League at Windsor Park in September 1953) and an Amateur cap (when he scored in a 3–2 win over Wales in January 1954). He moved to England in March 1954 when he was signed by Sunderland but failed to break into their first team. In July 1956 he moved to the south coast to join Southampton for a fee of £1,000 which was funded by the Saints Supporters Club.
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Schalke 04 Fan Club Association (SFCV) is an umbrella organization, according to their own statement, has an estimated 1,500 fan clubs. Of those listed by the SFCV, 860 Schalke 04 fan clubs (October 2012) in which an estimated 200 were in Ruhr, 360 in the rest of North Rhine-Westphalia and 300 in the other federal states. A member of the board of SFCV has a permanent seat on the board of FC Schalke 04 and in 2013 SFCV merged with the "Ultras Gelsenkirchen" and later the supporters' club, Schalke Fan-Initiative eV with several members of strong fan groups from the SFCV, as is clear from the merger of the SFCV with the fan section of S04 has not adequately represented the fan interests.
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Higgins was born in Kilmarnock, originally working as a coal-miner, and began his career in his hometown with Kilmarnock.Kilmarnock player Higgins (Sr), Sandy, FitbaStats He won his only Scotland cap while at the club on 14 March 1885. Despite scoring a hat-trick in an 8–2 win over Ireland, he was never selected again for his country;Sat 14 Mar 1885 Scotland 8 Ireland 2, London Hearts Supporters Club James B. Niven, later of Chelsea, also gained his only cap in that game. Higgins joined English club Derby County in August 1888 and made his Football League debut on 8 September 1888, playing at centre–forward, at Pike's Lane, the then home of Bolton Wanderers. Derby defeated the home team 6–3.
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Tuncay's endless energy and passion shown during matches has won him many plaudits. In May 2009, Matt Le Tissier of Sky Sports acknowledged his performances: "If they [Boro] had 11 Tuncay's they'd be in the top half of the table; this boy is quality, he works his socks off as well. He showed great technique with the overhead kick and was a great example for the rest of the team – it's just a shame there are not a few more like him in the side." The 2008–09 season saw him pick up all four of the club's major awards for 2009: the Players Player of the Year, Garmin Player of the Year, the Middlesbrough F.C. Official Supporters' Club Prize and the Terrace Legends Award.
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John Latto Anderson (1881 – 11 May 1942) was a Scottish footballer who played as a centre half. He began his career at Dunfermline Athletic and had three years at Heart of Midlothian,(Hearts player) John Anderson (1), London Hearts Supporters Club but spent the majority of his career with Falkirk.Jock Anderson - Captain, Falkirk Football Historian, 29 August 2013 He was in the Bairns team that finished runners-up in the Scottish Football League in the 1907–08 and 1909–10, but played no part in the club's Scottish Cup win of 1913, having more or less retired due to injury by that point. He had played in the 1903 Scottish Cup Final with Hearts, losing out to Rangers after two replays.Football.
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The Kop was roofed in 1960/1, at a cost of £10,000, paid for entirely by fundraising by the supporters club. In December 2000, The Kop was closed for the remainder of the season on orders of the Football Licensing Authority and a major upgrading effort became one of the many summer challenges facing the fans who had taken over the club. Commencing at the start of July, a complete renewal of terracing work was completed in just 7 weeks. Of the four sides of the ground, the Kop offered the most potential for redevelopment because of a relative abundance of space and was thus the focal point of all plans drawn up to keep the club at its historic home.
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Kevin Parker, secretary of Manchester City's supporters club, had originally suggested a minute's applause instead of a minute's silence, so as to drown out anyone who would disrupt the silence,White, p. 116. but this was rejected by the Manchester United management as inappropriate. United played in strips reminiscent of those worn by the 1958 team, numbered 1–11 with no advertising on the front or players' names on the back, while City removed sponsors' logos from their kit and the image of a small black ribbon was heat pressed onto the right shoulder; both teams wore black armbands in tribute to the victims of the Munich disaster. Manchester City won 2–1 thanks to first half goals from Darius Vassell and debutant Benjani.
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Tolka Park Shortly after winning the 14th League title, Louis Kilcoyne announced that the Kilcoynes were selling Glenmalure Park, which they had recently purchased from the Jesuits. The team played the entire 1987–88 season in an almost empty Tolka Park as a result of a boycott called for by the Shamrock Rovers Supporters Club and KRAM (Keep Rovers at Milltown), which was observed by the vast majority of Hoops fans. Following the completion of the boycott season in Tolka, the Kilcoynes sold the football club to Dublin businessman, John McNamara, who put forward a controversial proposal to move in with Bohemians at Dalymount Park. KRAM congregated to vote on whether to lift the boycott and on the proposal to move to Dalymount.
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His teammate Darren Moore credited him with playing a key role in Albion's revival during that season, as the team successfully avoided relegation, and Clement also won the West Bromwich Albion Disabled Supporters Club Player of the Year award. Clement's goal in a 4–0 win against Everton on 19 November 2005 gave him the distinction of being the only Albion player to score in each of the club's first three Premiership seasons, although Albion's 2005–06 campaign ended in relegation. In 2006–07 he played in less than half of West Brom's fixtures and was sent off twice. He came on as an 81st-minute substitute in that season's Championship play-off final at Wembley Stadium, as Albion lost 1–0 to Derby County.
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Herd spent ten seasons with the Tynecastle club, making 291 first team appearances in the process.(Hearts player) Andrew Herd, London Hearts Supporters Club Initially selected as a fullback, he switched to the left half position when Andy Anderson joined the club in 1929, and established himself in the latter role. His half-back combination with Alex Massie and John Johnston proved both durable and successful for Hearts, the trio proving a constant part of the side between 1930 and 1935, and eventually all three would gain selection for the Scottish national team. Herd's sole cap was earned against Ireland in 1935, while he also made one appearance for the Scottish League XI, against the (English) Football League XI in 1934.
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There are many official supporters' clubs located around the world, while an independent supporters club, the Tottenham Hotspur Supporters' Trust, is officially recognised by the club as the representative body for Spurs supporters. Historically, the club had a significant Jewish following from the Jewish communities in east and north London, with around a third of its supporters estimated to be Jewish in the 1930s. Due to this early support, all three chairmen of the club since 1984 have been Jewish businessmen with prior history of supporting the club. The club no longer has a greater Jewish contingent among its fans than other major London clubs (Jewish supporters are estimated to form at most 5% of its fanbase), it is nevertheless still identified as a Jewish club by rival fans.
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Dispare Damila Măciuca. digisport.ro Financially supported by Reșița Municipality and Cătălin Rufă, with Alexandru Pelici, then changed by Marian Pană as coaches and Daniel Oprița at his last season as a player Metalul ended the regular season on the 2nd place, a promotional one, but failed to promote in the play-off when the new team from Valea Domanului, ended only on the 4th place. In the 2014–15 Liga II season, this time with Oprița as a coach Metalul made a new great season and finished on the 3rd place. Though sustained at first by Guardia Rosso-Nera, CSM Școlar Reșița supporters, club that was at that time in a hard financial situation, the relationship between the owner and the supporters chilled subsequently and they went back to supporting their original club, CSM.
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The Red Bull logo is patterned in red and yellow lower level seats directly opposite the team benches and field entrance tunnel. Sections 133, 101 & 102 collectively make up the 1,500 seat home supporters section known as the "South Ward". Among the blue seats of the South Ward is the "Red Seat" located at Section 101, Row 11, Seat 20. The Red Seat signifies the Red Bulls first goal scored at Red Bull Arena; Section 101 represents the Arena's first game, Row 11 marks the minute of the game in which the goal was scored and Seat 20 remembers the goal scorer, No. 20 Joel Lindpere. Following the passing of Empire Supporters Club member Mike Vallo, the Red Seat's No. 20 was replaced by the initials "MV" to honor him.
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Apart from The Lilywhite from the Spurs Supporters Club and the official Spurs Monthly magazine once published by Tottenham, many fanzines dedicated to the club have been published over the years, some of these were short-lived, but some lasted longer. Fans were inspired by the success of When Saturday Comes to publish their own fanzines dedicated to their own club. The Spur was first published in 1988 and lasted until 1994, others include My Eyes Have Seen the Glory (MEHSTG) which was published in the early 1990s to 2007, and CADD (Cock A Doodle Do) from the mid to late 1990s. These print magazines have closed due to rising cost of production, and fan publications have since moved online, such as The Fighting Cock, which tried to continue producing a print fanzine.
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Optimism was in the air at the start of the 1911–12 season, but it was to finish in tragedy – popular full-back Sammy Wightman died from injuries sustained in a match against Brighton & Hove Albion, and a high wage bill, a spate of injuries and a lack of goals contributed to the club being relegated to the Southern League's Second Division. The club planned to bounce straight back in the 1912–13 season, but even with a team of strong new players the team could only finish fifth. The formation of the Luton Town Supporters Club, who raised £60 during the season, helped the club to stem the financial losses. In 1914 the side finished second and were promoted back to the First Division, just as the First World War was about to begin.
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The original supporters group was the Borough Boys Supporters Club, formed in 2007 to lobby MLS Commissioner Don Garber for a club based in New York City. After Kemsley's group bought the Cosmos name in late 2009, the Borough Boys became their first supporters group, believing that the Cosmos represented "the best choice for MLS expansion", and remained with the club even after New York City FC was announced as the twentieth MLS club in May 2013. In June 2017, the Borough Boys' podcast/website This is Cosmos Country announced that they would no longer be covering the Cosmos, following a dispute with the club. In an interview with Empire of Soccer, they raised questions about the ownership of the Cosmos, including wondering whether Sela Sport still had an interest.
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With the team's new arena and a local restaurant acting as supporters' home, the Empire Supporters Club has begun reaching out to the community by hosting or participating in charity events. From 2009ESC Competes In Soccer Tournament Red Bull Reader to 2011ESC Take Part in Charity Supporters Tournament MLSInsider the club played in the Downtown United Soccer Club's annual supporter's club charity soccer tournament in support of the City Soccer Initiative. In August 2010 the club used its home venue at El Pastor in Newark to host a fundraiser for Joe Vide, an ex-player diagnosed with cancer. February 2011, a month before the start of the 2011 MLS season, saw the ESC men's soccer team play in the inaugural South Ward Football Challenge, winning the Spanish Pavilion Cup.
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On 22 February Daly signed for League of Ireland First Division club Waterford on the Irish transfer deadline day. Daly made his debut coming off the bench in a 1-0 defeat away to Athlone Town on 24 February. He scored his first goal for Waterford on 17 April in a 2-0 victory Over Cobh Ramblers in the League of Ireland Cup scoring his side's second goal. He was awarded the club's players of the month award for April which was chosen by the members of the Blues Supporters Club. Daly scored crucial goals in his team's league games in a vital part of the season notching goals against Wexford on 12 May and against Longford Town on 19 May which both resulted in 1-0 wins.
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The club's Follow With Pride campaign was launched in 2007 to improve the club's image and build on previous anti- sectarian and anti-racist campaigns. William Gaillard, UEFA's Director of Communications, commended the SFA and Scottish clubs, including Rangers, for their actions in fighting discrimination. In September 2007, UEFA praised Rangers for the measures the club has taken against sectarianism. However, sectarian chanting by supporters has continued to incur criticism and sanctions upon the club as well as convictions against individuals identified.SPFL may take action against Rangers over sectarian singing The Herald (Glasgow), 29 December 2015Rangers fan jailed for three months for sectarian chanting at football ground Daily Record (Scotland), 26 October 2012 In 1999, the vice-chairman of The Rangers Football Club Ltd, Donald Findlay, resigned after being filmed singing sectarian songs during a supporters club event.
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He was made captain of Celtic soon after joining the club, and went on to win the Scottish league championship in 1936 and 1938, the Scottish Cup in 1937Willie Lyon, The Celtic Wiki and the Empire Exhibition Trophy in 1938. He was never selected for the full Scotland international team (he was ineligible under rules of the time due to his English birthplace),Dad nae, Cood nae - Calum MacDonald and Willie Lyon, Scots Football Worldwide but was a member of a SFA Touring XI squad which visited Canada and the US in 1939. He had also played twice for the Scottish League XI in 1938.SFL player Willie Lyon, London Hearts Supporters Club Lyon served in the Scots Guards during World War II, rising to the rank of major and sustaining a leg injury in 1944 which ended his football career.
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In its mission statement, the group claims that two of the most urgent problems facing the United Kingdom - the need to "unleash more enterprise and innovation" across the economy, and to tackle "entrenched welfarism and social inequality" - are fundamentally linked. It advocates an Enterprise Economy in partnership with greater Social Mobility, praising the role of technology and enterprise in creating new opportunities to tackle these issues and rejecting "the stale dogmas of both old left and right in the search for solutions for our generation". Re-elected with a Conservative majority in 2015, the group continues to develop themes for the new intake of Conservative MPs, defining what its calls "a One Nation Conservatism for the 21st Century". The Group was described by Michael Crick as a "Cameron supporters club" when David Cameron was Prime Minister.
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The story of the club's major involvement in the First World War has been told in a 2005 book entitled They Took The Lead, by Stephen Jenkins, deputy chairman of Leyton Orient Supporters' Club. In July 2006 Jenkins, assisted by Les Bailey, took a party of 150 Leyton Orient supporters and members of the Leyton and Manor Park Royal British Legion over to the Somme region of northern France, to visit World War I war graves and to pay their respects at the resting places of Richard McFadden, William Jonas and George Scott. This was the first official visit to the Orient war graves for 90 years. A second visit to the Somme took place the weekend of 12/13 July 2008, this time 183 O's supporters and members of the RBL made the historic pilgrimage.
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Dix had also formed the Newcastle Supporters Association in 1977, which folded in 1984, as well as editing an early fanzine The Supporter.Mike Ashley 'could have sold up months ago' Website of the Evening Chronicle, 19 September 2008 Solicitor Colin Whittle was involved with the Save Our Seats campaign, a dispute in the late 1990s between fans and NUFC over seat ownership at St James' Park.NUFC fans team up to form supporters' club Website of the Evening Chronicle, 17 September 2008 Following the initial public meeting, a further private meeting was held on 18 September 2008, at which an interim committee was established. NUSC made their first official statement through this committee on 19 September 2008 on a newly launched website, which also contained a registration form for prospective members to register their interest in the group.
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Within a week of the Taylors walking away from the club, Bees fan Katie Eleftheriou and then Supporters Club Chairman Stuart Robinson formed Bees Ice Management Ltd to take over the operating licence and came up with a rescue plan to see the club through to the end of the season, if fans were willing to help through pledging donations. This they did and the club successfully completed the season, finishing in 3rd place in the league, winning the EPL cup and finishing runner up to Slough Jets in the play-off final. For the 2008–2009 season Dwight Parrish returned to the Manchester Phoenix and was replaced as head coach by the previous season's captain, Adam Bicknell. During the season, Bicknell recruited Peter Russell as a bench coach, after Russell had been released by Swindon Wildcats.
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Local tradesmen were approached, collections were taken at matches and the supporters club arranged money-raising efforts. More than £3,000 was donated in the first season. In 1957, the Keighley board bought Lawkholme Lane football ground, cricket ground, bowling green and cottages of land in total, from the Duke of Devonshire for £10,000 paid for in sums of £2,500 a year. When the Hard Ings Road by-pass was built Keighley recouped some of their money by selling off a piece of land where cottages had been, for the erection of a petrol station. In October 1985 Keighley were served a winding-up order by the Inland Revenue. This was only averted by the sale of the cricket field to Keighley Cricket Club for a reported £30,000 and the training pitch to Yorkshire Water for £65,000.
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He managed to find such players in the 2nd and 3rd levels in Portugal on a budget that Doxa could afford. The first player he signed was Angolan born Portuguese left back Rui Paulo Silva Júnior, who subsequently became a good friend and after retiring as a footballer would join him as Director of football at AEL Limassol. He used the player agent Costas Christodoulou (Karavidas) to help him bring the players to Cyprus and subsequently learned the tricks of the trade himself, in 2011 the Olympiakos Nicosia supporters club cast doubt on Christodoulou's scouting prowress by claiming that player agent Karavidas in fact finds and signs the players. Chrisodoulou vehemently denies this and is moving legally against the Olympiakos supporters for libel as he claims that Rui Junior and himself scout and find the players.
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The origins of the nickname are not certain, but the first generally accepted use of the nickname was created whilst playing at Leeds United in 2000–2001: Ipswich were winning the game 2–1 and the Leeds fans started chanting, 'We're being beaten by a bunch of tractor drivers.' Barracking by supporters of more established Premiership clubs during Town's spell in the Premiership lent the ironic chant '1–0 to the Tractor Boys' increased potency and publicity, and the nickname is commonly used by the media. Former Town manager Jim Magilton commented, in the local press, that he disliked the nickname and said that it conjured up, 'images of carrot-crunching yokels', while players such as Matt Holland accepted the chant with good humour. Ipswich have a global fan base, with the official Ipswich Town Supporters Club having supporters branches across the world.
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John "Jean" McFarlane (24 November 1899 – 25 February 1956) was a Scottish footballer who played for Celtic, Middlesbrough and Dunfermline Athletic as a half back. He made over 300 appearances for Celtic in a decade as a first team player at the club, winning several major honours.Celtic player Macfarlane, John, FitbaStatsMacFarlane John Image 3 Glasgow Celtic 1922, Vintage FootballersJim Craig – Murdo MacLeod thundered a tremendous drive past McCloy, The Celtic Star, 21 November 2018 McFarlane was selected four times for the Scottish Football League XISFL player John McFarlane London Hearts Supporters Club but never gained a full international cap for Scotland, one of few players to appear so often for the SFL team without playing at least once for the SFA. His nephew Willie Fagan was also a footballer who played for Celtic and won the English Football League title with Liverpool.
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Andrew Black (23 September 1917 – 16 February 1989) was a Scottish footballer, who played as an inside forward. He was born in Stirling. Black was a prolific scorer with Heart of Midlothian before World War II, scoring 29 goals in 34 games in the 1936–37 season, before finishing as top scorer in the Scottish League with 40 goals in 38 appearances in the following season.(Hearts player) Andy Black, London Hearts Supporters Club, He was widely credited the following season as being the first player to score a hat-trick against Rangers at Ibrox; however this had been first achieved by Willie Wilson, also of Hearts, in October 1915.Rangers 0 Hearts 4 Oct 16 1915 Black played as a guest for Chester during the latter stages of the war but the club were unsuccessful in their attempts to sign him permanently.
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The London Gryphons were founded in 1999 by former West Coast Eagles and Brisbane Bears player Mark Zanotti along with BARFL Admin Officer Donald Eastwood who originally played with the Earls Court Kangaroos, and have competed in the British Australian Rules Football League since that year. The club was originally made up of former rugby players and were predominantly British. After Zanotti's return to Australia after one year where the Gryphons made the finals, the Gryphons struggled both off-field and on-field, and eventually formed a partnership with the London Collingwood Supporters group, changing their name and colours to match those of the AFL's Collingwood Magpies. The Putney Magpies were started in 2004 by Simon Thorp in his capacity as President of the London Collingwood Supporters Club, a phoenix rising from the ashes of the London Gryphons.
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Glasgow Cup–Final Tie., The Glasgow Herald, 30 November 1903 while with the Warriors he was selected to represent the Scottish League team in a 1–0 defeat to the Irish League at Grosvenor Park, Belfast in February 1903.(SFL player) Willie Wardrope, London Hearts Supporters Club After two seasons at Cathkin Park he then joined Southern League club Fulham in 1904, scoring 32 goals in 68 appearances for the Cottagers and helping them to win the Southern League championship in 1905–06.History of Fulham Football Club Southern League Winners May 1906, Fulham FC He transferred to Swindon Town in the 1906 close season and scored nine times for the Robins in 39 appearances,Player Profile Willie Wardrope, Swindon-Town-FC before returning to Scotland again to join Hamilton Academical in 1907,Wardrop, William (1907), Hamilton Academical Memory Bank subsequently joining Raith Rovers in 1908 before his eventual retirement.
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Croke Park kitted out in the Mayo colours for the 2004 All-Ireland Senior Football Final The Mayo GAA senior team last won the Sam Maguire Cup in 1951, when the team was captained by Seán Flanagan. The team's third title, this followed victories in 1936 and the previous year, 1950. Since 1951, the team have made numerous All-Ireland Final appearances (in 1989, twice in 1996, 1997, 2004, 2006, 2012, 2013, twice again in 2016 against Dublin, with their latest appearance coming in 2017 against Dublin, again), though the team have failed on all occasions to achieve victory over their opponents. Mayo are the current Allianz national league football champions having beaten Kerry in the national league final at Croke Park in April 2019 The team's unofficial supporters club are Mayo Club '51, named after the last team who won the Sam Maguire.
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Established as the Edinburgh Rocks in 1998 by a consortium of businessmen, the team debuted at the Meadowbank Arena under the helm of American coach Jim Brandon. After poor results, in the summer of 2002, the team was attracted by the opening of the brand-new 4,000-seat Braehead Arena in Glasgow, Rocks uprooted from their aging Meadowbank venue in Edinburgh and moved 45 miles west to Scotland's largest city, and rebranded as the Scottish Rocks. The move received a mixed response from fans, whilst many said that the move would not work, the official supporters club backed the franchise's decision. While few fans followed the club west, the first season in Glasgow provided the franchise with a sponsorship deal with Mitsubishi and its most successful season to date, as coach Wall led the Rocks to their first ever trophy, the BBL Play-off Championship.
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Manchester City Football Club, then known as Ardwick, first entered the Football League in the 1892–93 season. Since that time the club's first team has competed in numerous nationally and internationally organised competitions, and all players who have played in 100 or more such matches are listed below, which encompasses all players who have been inducted into the Manchester City Hall of Fame.The statistical data for the majority of the players who had played 100 or more matches for the club prior to the start of season 2003–04 is sourced from Manchester City – The Complete Record. Also included are all winners of the Player of the Year award, which has been awarded annually since 1967 by the Manchester City Official Supporters Club based on a ballot of the supporters. Alan Oakes holds the record for Manchester City league appearances, having played 565 matches between 1959 and 1976.
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The club is now owned by Dwane Sports Ltd with 92.6% of the shares with Bristol Rovers Supporters Club owning the remaining 7.4%. In May 2016 the club recorded a second consecutive promotion in dramatic fashion finishing third in League Two after a 92nd-minute goal secured victory over Dagenham and Redbridge and Accrington Stanley failed to beat Stevenage on the last day of the season. It marked the first time Rovers had reached the third tier of English Football since relegation in 2011. In June 2020 it was announced that president Wael al-Qadi had obtained a 90% stake in Dwane Sports Ltd after buying the shares of other members of his family it was also announced that the club's debt would be capitalised and a new training facility would begin construction at Hortham Lane, Almondsbury which is close to the M5 motorway.
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In 2001–02 they finished runners-up and the following season they were crowned champions. As a reward they were promoted to the Northern Premier League Division One. In season 2004–05, they started playing in the Northern Premier League Premier Division, their highest ever flight in football. One of the main reasons for their rapid promotion was that the Football Pyramid underwent major changes in 2004. The Cables finished in 5th place that season following the FA's decision to award them 6 points, thanks to the Spennymoor United failing to fulfil two fixtures against Prescot. The club took duly took their place in the playoffs only to lose 3–1 at Workington. There was a change in organisation in mid-2005 when a new football committee formed from the Supporters' Club took over the club. Andy Gray took over as manager following the resignation of Tommy Lawson.
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Neville writes a weekly full-page column in the Sports section of The Sunday Times of Malta,Sunday Times of Malta apologises to Gary Neville BBC Sport, 25 October 2010Times of Malta lands Gary Neville in hot water maltastar.com, 25 October 2010 the widest circulating newspaper in the country, which is home to the oldest recognised Manchester United Supporters' Club.Welcome to MUSC Malta Manchester United Supporters Club Malta, 27 March 2010 During the months after Neville retired from playing, there were many rumours about whether he would go into media work or coaching. He joined Sky Sports at the start of the 2011–12 season, taking over as match analyst on Monday Night Football from Andy GrayGary Neville signs up to be Sky Sports pundit next season Metro.co.uk, 8 April 2011 alongside Jamie Redknapp. Neville had previously done some punditry work for ITV Sport during the 2002 World Cup, which he missed due to injury, and for Euro 2008, which England did not qualify for.
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Smurthwaite blamed "logistical challenges" for the deal to bring back former top-scorer Marc Richards breaking down on 31 January (transfer deadline day); the club instead signed four youngsters despite having no manager. As the transfer window was closing, the Port Vale Supporters' Club unanimously gave a vote of no confidence in Smurthwaite and elected to begin formal protests against his ownership. Smurthwaite went on to issue a statement to condemn "disgraceful abuse" he had received and to urge supporters to not to use "inappropriate language" during protests and to consider the effect of protests on the club and the players; he stated that he was only involved in "major" decisions at the club and left day-to-day decisions to CEO Colin Garlick. Responding to accusations that the club had been operating "on the cheap", chief executive Colin Garlick stated that the club had the tenth-largest playing budget in League Two.
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Today Sector B initiates most of the songs, choreography and pyrotechnic displays at Levski games. Levski supporters are organized by fanclubs, most notably the National Supporters Club which helps and coordinates fans from all around Bulgaria and supports the organization of events. There are also notable groups from Sofia (Sofia-West, South Division, Blue Junta, HD Boys, LSL and many more) and other cities across Bulgaria and around the World (such as Ultra Varna, Blue Huns Pernik, OCB Veliko Tarnovo, Torcida Kyustendil, Ultras Vidin, Iron Pazardzhik, Youth Brigade 034 Pazardzik, Blue Warriors Plovdiv, Blue Boys Blagoevgrad, Blue Lads Sliven, Vandals Pleven, Levski Club Dobrich, Ultras Radomir, Ultras Burgas, Levski 1914 Karlovo, Yambol Boys, Levski UK, Levski Chicago and many more) Ultras Levski have a very strong long-standing friendship with SS Lazio fans. According to a study performed for UEFA, Levski is the most popular Bulgarian club and share the sixth position in Europe with Juventus, by percentage of support in its own country (31%).
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William Bulloch (15 November 1895 – 18 October 1962) was a Scottish footballer who played mainly as a left back. Although he began his career with short spells elsewhere including Port Glasgow Athletic, Tottenham Hotspur (signing along with Bobby Steel who established himself in London, while Bulloch did not make it out of their reserve team)Bobby Steel - fact file, My Eyes Have Seen The GloryBulloch, William, Partick Thistle History Archive and Kilmarnock, Bulloch featured primarily for Glasgow club Partick Thistle where he spent thirteen seasons (all in the top division), making 474 appearances for the Jags in all competitions and scoring 8 goals.Players B, Partick Thistle History Archive He was captain of the Partick team that won the Scottish Cup in 1921 with a 1–0 win over Rangers. Bulloch was selected twice for the Scottish Football League XI,(SFL player) William Bulloch, London Hearts Supporters Club and in 1921 toured North America with 'Scotland' (organised by Third Lanark).
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Hendrie said: "He defends well and has also got the energy and desire to overlap going forward and get crosses in the box." O'Brien was voted Bradford City Player of the Year, Supporters Club Player of the Year, Under 25's Player of the Year and the Alan Hannah Trophy (Players Player of the Year) for the 2008/2009 season. In May 2009 O'Brien's fine individual effort at Rotherham United was voted Goal of the Season 2008/2009 by Bradford City supporters in a recent online poll. The left back's stunning strike back in November at the Don Valley Stadium beat off 7 other contenders to win the award and this adds to his growing list of honours collected for the 2008/2009 season. O'Brien playing for Bradford City in 2009 O'Brien's contract was due to expire at the end of the 2008/2009 season, he signed a 1-year deal in June 2009 to take his contract to the end of June 2010.
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James "Hookey" or "Hooky" Leonard (1906–1959) was a Scottish professional footballer. Leonard signed with Cowdenbeath in 1923.Cowdenbeath A to Z, Part One : David Allan (2003, Cowdenbeath, Cowdenbeath Supporters Club) He quickly became a club favourite with brilliant performances. However, during the 1924–25 season, he was suspended after missing several training sessions. Leonard was the third leading scorer in the Scottish League during the 1925–26 season, but shocked the team and league when he signed with Indiana Flooring of the American Soccer League in December 1926. He played fifteen league games, scoring eight goals, through the remainder of 1926–27. Leonard returned to Cowdenbeath for the 1927–28 season but was back in the U.S., this time with the New York Nationals. He remained with the Nationals through the 1929–30 season, then returned again to Cowdenbeath. The team then sold his contract to English club Sunderland for £3,000.
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The club's location, adjoining wealthy areas such as Canonbury and Barnsbury, mixed areas such as Islington, Holloway, Highbury, and the adjacent London Borough of Camden, and largely working-class areas such as Finsbury Park and Stoke Newington, has meant that Arsenal's supporters have come from a variety of social classes. Much of the Afro-Caribbean support comes from the neighbouring London Borough of Hackney and a large portion of the South Asian Arsenal supporters commute to the stadium from Wembley Park, North West of the capital. There was also traditionally a large Irish community that followed Arsenal, with the nearby Archway area having a particularly large community, but Irish migration to North London is much lower than in the 1960s or 1970s. Arsenal supporters Like all major English football clubs, Arsenal have a number of domestic supporters' clubs, including the Arsenal Football Supporters' Club, which works closely with the club, and the Arsenal Independent Supporters' Association, which maintains a more independent line.
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James Aiton Hunter, also known as James Semple (5 July 1898 – 1982) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back. His first senior club at the end of World War I was Newcastle United, but before playing a first-team match he then signed for Motherwell while still registered as a Newcastle player; however it was decided that the transfer was acceptable with no fee due.Player Profile James Alton Hunter, Toon1892Jim Hunter, MotherWELLnet Hunter soon moved on to Falkirk at the end of 1919, spending the next four years with the Bairns and being selected twice for the Scottish Football League XI in 1923.(SFL player) James Hunter, London Hearts Supporters Club In January 1924 he returned to Newcastle for a free of £3,500 with the club anticipating the need to replace defender Frank Hudspeth who was then 33, but the veteran played on for several more years, with Hunter serving as back-up until 1925, with a high asking price deterring clubs in Britain.
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The Club returned to the professional level in the summer of 2004 but was relegated at the end of that season. Tired of the long-running underachieving status of the Club, its Supporters Club, generally organised in Chapters and autonomous sub-units, came together in 2007 to start a vigorous and well- coordinated campaign for the return of the Club. They engaged in various rounds of consultations with many stakeholders, including with the owners of the Club and deployed a sustained media strategy which contributed to strengthening efforts of the Directors of the Club to revive and rejuvenate its fortunes. Stationery Stores FC thus returned to the Nigerian Professional League in the 2014 soccer season, buying up the slot of Union Bank FC. The Supporters also re-structured, setting up the first Football Supporters Trust in Nigeria, with a view to giving its members better representation in the Club and supporting the Club materially as well.
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Clark missed out on getting the role full-time as it was given to Gerry Luczka instead, however he was later awarded the Players' Player of the Year award for the second successive season and KC Couriers' Player of the Year. The 2007–08 season was a successful one again on the accolade front for Clark, winning Players' Player of the season for the third successive year as well as KC Couriers' Player of the Year for the second successive year, for the first time the Supporters Club Player of the Year and finally awarded for most league appearances. However, in July, in preparation for the 2008–09 season his captain's armband was given to Kieran Fletcher, however later that month he scored his first goal for the club in a friendly at Nelson. In October 2008 Clark suffered a knee injury that saw him sidelined for the longest period in his career, only recovering from the injury after an operation in February 2009.
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"Dave Halliday", www.qosfc.com In these six games, McGrory scored six goals, but despite this strike rate he was never given an extended run in the team;"Scotland - International Matches 1931-1939" RSSSF his final appearance, the only one in which he did not score aside from his debut, was also against Ireland and resulted in defeat, this time at his home club ground Celtic Park. The press were critical of the Scottish players individually and collectively,Disappointing Scots Half-Backs and Wing Men Weak, The Glasgow Herald, 18 September 1933 and McGrory was one of five in the Scotland team who were not selected for international duty again.Sat 16 Sep 1933 Scotland 1 Northern Ireland 2, London Hearts Supporters Club McGrory received his first calling to play for the Scottish Football League XI on 27 October 1926 to play against the Irish League XI at Tynecastle Park, scoring once in a 5–2 win.
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RagingBullNation is known for their "RoadSide Roundup" (formerly "MetroGate") game day tailgate parties, located in parking lot 15 outside the South Tower entrance of Giants Stadium. On the occasion of USA international matches being scheduled on the same day as Red Bulls matches, Raging Bull Nation has organized watch parties in the parking lot using portable satellite equipment. Raging Bull Nation organizes its away game road trips to D.C. United and New England Revolution in coordination with other Red Bulls supporters clubs, such as Empire Supporters Club and First Row Idiots. Raging Bull Nation has an official theme song written by Mike Apple. On Red Bulls home opening day 2006, Raging Bull Nation unveiled its tribute entitled “From the Stars and Stripes to the Red and Black.” It will be a tribute to the MetroStars who played in the 1994 FIFA World Cup and it will be kept at the Pride and Passion Pub at Giants Stadium until its move to the new stadium pub at Red Bull Arena.
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Vodafone camogie player of the year 2007; With Wexford she won National League medals in 2009, 2010 and 2011, and Leinster titles at senior, under-16 and minor level. She was nominated for further All Star awards in 2005,2005 All Star nominations 20082008 All Star nominations and 2009.2009 All Star nominations Wexford Supporters' Club camogie and ladies' football player of the year 2007; All-Ireland Under-16 1995; Leinster Under-14 1992, 1993, 1994; Leinster Under-16 1994, 1995, 1996; Leinster Under-18 1997 (captain), 1998; Leinster Senior 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003, 2004; two Ashbournes with WIT 1999, 2001 (captain); Leinster Centenary Ambassador 2004; Senior Gael Linn Cup with Leinster 2006; four Senior Club 1997, 1998, 2001, 2002; two Leinster Senior Club 2001, 2002; Leinster Senior 'B' Colleges with Loreto (Wexford) 1996; Purple and Gold Star 2008. She was a member of the Team of the Championship for 2011. She scored two goals in Wexford's 3-12 to 1-11 victory over Kilkenny in the 2010 All Ireland semi-final.
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Temporary seated stands loaned from Essex County Cricket Club were later installed on the other side of the pitch. In 1977 the club won a set of floodlights by winning the Philips Electrical Floodlight Competition final against Friar Lane Old Boys,Jon Weaver (2005) The Football Grounds of Rural Essex, p5 a six-a- side tournament played at the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre the day after their FA Vase final against Sheffield. The floodlights were inaugurated with a friendly match against West Ham United, which attracted a then-record crowd of 3,841. In 1980 a permanent 120-seat stand was built between the Cowshed and the clubhouse; its shape led to it becoming known as the Pacman stand. During the 1980s a 200-seat stand was built on the side that had previously hosted the temporary seating, with the supporters club erecting several small areas of terracing. In 1995 Billericay bought two stands that had been in use at Newbury Town's Faraday Road ground after the club went bust.
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Considered a player with great talent and potential – but a variable temperament – from an early age,Significant Saints Bobby Davidson, St Johnstone FCBobby Davidson’s first match for Arsenal 20 February 1935, The History of ArsenalDavidson: A Prototype Marinello?, The Arsenal History, 20 February 2015 Davidson made one appearance for the Scottish Football League XI in 1934 while with St Johnstone(SFL player) Robert Trimming Davidson, London Hearts Supporters Club and scored the Perth club's 1000th Scottish Football League goal.8 September 1934 – 1000th League Goal, saintshistory, 8 September 2013 After moving to Arsenal towards the end of the 1934–35 season he quickly won the Football League titleBobby Davidson, Arsenal FC and was seen as a possible successor to Alex James. However, he suffered from injuries and fell out of favour at the North London club after the 1935 FA Charity Shield match and was not selected for the 1936 FA Cup Final victory, and although back in the picture for the next campaign, finished on the losing side again in the 1936 FA Charity Shield.
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Davidson was born in Kintore, Aberdeenshire, and after a period as a teenager with Chelsea which did not result in any senior appearances,League Cup: No idol talk from Norrie Davidson, Southern Reporter, 17 March 2013 returned home and started his career with local junior club, Inverurie Loco Works. Six months after signing for Aberdeen, he made his professional debut in October 1955,Norman Davidson, AFC Heritage Trust and went on to make 146 appearances for the club in major competitions, including the 1959 Scottish Cup Final, but moved to Heart of Midlothian in early 1961.Hearts player Norrie Davidson, London Hearts Supporters Club While with the Tynecastle club he befriended Willie Hamilton, who provided the cross for Davidson to score the winning goal in the 1962 Scottish League Cup Final (he had also found the net in the previous year's event which resulted in defeat). He joined Dundee United in October 1963 for a £4,000 transfer fee,Norrie Davidson Player Profile, ArabArchive but soon left to join Partick Thistle in January 1964, having been swapped for Partick's George Smith.
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William Walkinshaw Reid (3 November 1903 – 1967) was a footballer from Northern Ireland who played as a centre half. He played for several clubs, most significantly Glentoran where he won the Irish League in the 1924–25 season and played in two Irish Cup finals, Bethlehem Steel in the United StatesWillie Reid, SoccerStats.usBethlehem Steel Soccer Team Biographies William "Bill" Reid, Bethlehem Steel Soccer Club where he won the American Soccer League in 1926–27 and the Eastern Soccer League in 1928–29 and 1929, and Heart of Midlothian in Scotland where he spent seven seasons and eventually captained the team.(Hearts player) William Reid, London Hearts Supporters Club While with Glentoran he was selected for the Irish League XI in 1926, and while with Hearts he was capped once for Ireland in October 1930, a 5–1 defeat against England,Willie Reid, National Football TeamsHome International Championship 1930-31 (43rd) Match England 5 Ireland 1, England Football Online becoming the first serving player from the Edinburgh club to feature for a national team other than Scotland.
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The departure of Drake, although balancing the club's finances, left a large gap in the Saints forward line which Kay was not able to fill satisfactorily. In the summer of 1934, Kay signed Laurie Fishlock from Millwall as a winger and promoted Norman Cole from the reserves, but the side lacked any real firepower. McIlwaine returned from his "exile" at Llanelli in an effort to bolster the defence. The season started badly with only two points from the first five games. The depressing form continued until Christmas, when the team won three consecutive matches, including their first away victory (against Swansea Town) ending a run of 33 away games without a win. They managed only one further away victory and were serious candidates for relegation, finishing the season in 19th place. Cole was top scorer with eight league goals as Saints managed a miserly total of only 46 goals. The club's finances were now so dire that the supporters club had to make a loan of £200 to help finance the summer wage bill.
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James Hickie (1915 – 1973) was a Scottish footballer who played as a left back. In a professional career badly affected by World War II, prior to the conflict he won the Scottish Cup with Clyde in 1939Scottish Cup final: 80th anniversary for Clyde side that held the trophy longest, BBC Sport, 27 May 2019 and was selected for the Scottish Football League XI.(SFL player) Hickie, James, London Hearts Supporters Club During wartime he turned out for Clyd,eRangers "Sweep the Boards": Charity Cup Victory over Clyde, Glasgow Herald, 31 May 1940 St MirrenPlayer profiles H, StMirren.info and Dumbarton in unofficial competitions, and at its end he accepted an invitation from William Reaside to play in Mexico for a year, alongside Jackie Milne and Tom McKillop,Scottish football's Mexican adventure in 1946, Scottish Sport History, 29 May 2018 before returning to Scotland where he played briefly for Dunfermline Athletic. His Scottish Cup medal was stolen from his son's home in a 1992 housebreaking but later appeared for sale at auction, and was subsequently returned to the family.
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Robert McLaren was a Scottish footballer who played as a forward, primarily for Heart of Midlothian. He joined the Edinburgh club in 1892 and was a fringe player in his first two seasons. He is then documented as having moved to Celtic in April 1894, but appears to have made no competitive appearances for the Glasgow side and returned to Hearts a few months later.(Hearts player) Bob McLaren, London Hearts Supporters Club He then became an important member of the team at Tynecastle Park, featuring regularly as Hearts won the Scottish Football League championship in 1894–95 and 1896–97, took part in the 1895 'World Championship' match (McLaren scored twice in a 5–3 defeat to Sunderland)When Sunderland met Hearts in the first ever 'Champions League' match, Nutmeg Magazine, September 2017 and lifted the Scottish Cup in 1896;Hearts' Greatest Games, Mike Smith; eBook Partnership, 2012; he was also involved in minor competition win: three Rosebery Charity Cups, two East of Scotland Shields and three Edinburgh Football Leagues.
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James Samson Lawson (26 March 1886 – 2 September 1962) was a Scottish footballer who played as a right back, primarily for Dundee. He was part of the squad which won the Scottish Cup in 1910 and was selected to play for the Scottish Football League XI in 1912.(SFL player) Jimmy Lawson, London Hearts Supporters Club After a one-year spell at Airdrieonians he quit the game in 1914 and moved to the United States to become a professional golfer, where over a long career he was a football coach for Lehigh University and Bethlehem Steel, worked as a golf club manufacturer, and was country club pro in Chicago, Flint, Texas and Indianapolis, before retiring to Florida.The Hawthorns Series (page 10), Robert Bradley and Douglas Gorman, Scottish Sport History, October 1914James S Lawson, Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland He also served in the Canadian Army in World War I and in the U.S. Army in World War II. Two of his brothers, Fred (1888–1954)Fred Lawson, Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland and Herbert (1892–1930)Herbert Lawson, Antique Golf Clubs from Scotland also moved to America to play golf professionally.
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It was frequently joked afterwards that as an orange football had been used, Shearer and Rangers teammate Eric Caldow had refused to kick it, while Celtic players Frank Haffey and Billy McNeill had refused to touch it. Despite this inauspicious start, Shearer won further caps against the Republic of Ireland (twice) and Czechoslovakia in World Cup qualifiers the following month, his final game being a 4–0 defeat in Bratislava. Shearer captained Rangers to their second domestic treble in 1963–64. In all, he won five league championships, three Scottish Cups and four Scottish League Cups during his time at Ibrox.Hall of Fame: Bobby Shearer, Rangers FC He also deputised as goalkeeper (at least) twice, by coincidence against Hearts at Tynecastle Park on both occasions, taking over from Norrie Martin in a League Cup fixture in 1958 which Hearts won 2–1,Neil 'Norrie' Martin, The Scotsman, 23 October 2013 (via PressReader)Sat 23 Aug 1958, Hearts 2 Rangers 1, London Hearts Supporters Club and more impressively an 82-minute shift in place of the injured Billy Ritchie in a 3–1 Rangers victory in 1960.
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Stevenson was born in Leith, Midlothian. He played for Edina Hearts and Dalkeith Thistle before turning professional with Rangers. He immediately became a regular in the side, winning the Scottish Football League in his first season and the Scottish Cup in his second while also being involved in the semi-finals of the 1959–60 European Cup(Rangers player) Stevenson, Willie, FitbaStats and earning selection for the Scottish Football League XI,(SFL player) Billy Stevenson, London Hearts Supporters Club but then lost his first team place after Jim Baxter joined Rangers in 1960; Baxter initially played at inside forward before being moved to Stevenson's left half berth. After two seasons as a reserve (appearing in only 8 matches as the club won another title and watching on as they won three more major cup finals), Stevenson declined to sign a new contract with Rangers and went out to Australia in the summer of 1962, but was still registered with the Glasgow club and was not permitted to play official matches with local clubs, so he returned to Scotland and both Liverpool and Preston North End put in bids to sign him.
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John Stewart "Jackie" Wright (1890 – 1956) was a Scottish footballer who played for Morton as a centre half, making over 400 appearances for the club between 1911 and 1925.[A Record of pre-war Scottish League Players], John Litster / Scottish Football Historian magazine, October 2012 He was also Morton manager in two spells, between 1927 and 1929, and 1934 and 1939.Morton manager Wright, Jackie, FitbaStats Although the early part of his career was interrupted by World War I (during which the club won the War Fund Shield in 1915 and were finalists in 1918)Football: War Shield Final, Glasgow Herald, 29 April 1915Association football: War Fund Shield, Final Tie, Glasgow Herald, 6 May 1918 (via The Celtic Wiki) after the resumption of regular competitions he was in the team which claimed the Scottish Cup in 1922, the only major honour in Morton's history. Wright was selected four times for the Scottish Football League XISFL player John Stewart Wright London Hearts Supporters Club and appeared in three wartime internationals,Scotland v England 2-0 (International: June 8, 1918), 9 June 1918 (via Play Up, Liverpool) but never gained a full official cap for Scotland.
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Scally has a reputation for often taking controversial positions. For example, he has made no secret of his desire to relocate the club from the town of Gillingham, possibly to a location away from the Medway Towns though still somewhere within the county of Kent, claiming "The future of this football club is not at this stadium and everyone, if they are not stupid, accepts that is a fundamental point." He summarily dismissed manager Tony Pulis immediately after he had led the team to a Wembley play-off final in 1999, which brought about a protracted legal dispute over Pulis' contract. He has also become involved in a number of public disputes, most notably with several other Football League clubs over player transfers, the Kent Messenger Group of local newspapers (whose reporters he banned from the ground for several years for supposedly criticising poor team performances), and Alan Liptrott, then chairman of the Gills Independent Supporters Club, with whom he had several public disagreements, the largest over the ownership of an internet domain name, which led to Scally imposing a lifetime ban from Priestfield on Liptrott.
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Soon after the Football Association gave permission for competitive matches to be played under floodlights, Darlington beat Carlisle United 3–1 in the first floodlit FA Cup match between Football League clubs, a replay held at St James' Park, Newcastle United's ground, in November 1955. The 1957–58 season saw the club equal their previous best FA Cup run, reaching the last 16 by defeating Chelsea, Football League champions only three years earlier, in the Fourth Round. After letting slip a three-goal lead at Stamford Bridge, Darlington won the replay 4–1 after extra time, described as "a most meritorious win, earned by a combination of sound tactics and an enthusiasm that Chelsea never equalled" by The Times' correspondent, who felt it "surprising that extra time was necessary, for Darlington always seemed to have the match well in hand". In the League, Darlington's fourth place in 1948–49 was their only top-half finish in the first twelve seasons after the war, and when the regional sections of the Third Division were merged, they were allocated to the new Fourth Division. The Supporters' Club raised £20,000 to pay for a roof at one end of the Feethams ground and for floodlights, which were first used on 19 September 1960.
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The post-war era saw an upturn in the Shrimps' fortunes with steady progress throughout the late 1940s and nearly all the 1950s, with a visible marked improvement when in 1956 Ken Horton was appointed player-manager. Whilst success was only just around the corner, the foundations for the future were being built. The Auxiliary Supporters club had been formed and with their help many ground improvements were undertaken, so that the on-field success dovetailed neatly with the off- field enterprise. The fourteen years from 1960 could justifiably be said to be Morecambe's Golden Era. This included an FA Cup third round appearance in 1961–62, a 1–0 defeat to Weymouth; a Lancashire Senior Cup Final victory in 1968, a 2–1 win over Burnley; and an FA Trophy success at Wembley in 1974, a 2–1 win over Dartford in the final. The next 12 years were as barren as any previous period in the club's history. Attendances fell from a creditable 2,000 plus to a miserable 200 minus, with a visible decline in the club fortunes during that period. However, in 1985–86, signs of improvement appeared; the club's league position improved, and cup success over the next few years filled the club with optimism.
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Before moving to the Pride Park Stadium, Derby County had played at the Baseball Ground since 1895. Although at its peak the ground had held over 40,000 (the record attendance being 41,826 for a match against Tottenham Hotspur in 1969) the Taylor Report, actioned after the 1989 Hillsborough Disaster had seen the legal requirement for English football stadia to become all-seater by 1994–95 season resulting in its capacity dwindling to just 17,500 by the mid-1990s, not enough for the then-ambitious second tier club. An additional problem came with the ground's wooden components (considered unacceptable in the wake of the Bradford City stadium fire in 1985) and, in February 1996, chairman Lionel Pickering made the decision to move the club to a new stadium, having originally planned to rebuild the Baseball Ground as a 26,000-seat stadium. The club originally planned to build a purpose-built 30,000-seat stadium at Pride Park, with 4,000 car parking spaces, restaurant and conference facilities, a fitness centre, a supporters club and new training ground. A year later the stadium plan was changed to become part of a £46 million project by the Stadivarios group that would also include a 10,000-seat indoor arena.
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The group was formed in September 2008 as the Newcastle United Supporters Club (NUSC), following on from minor fan demonstrations against the NUFC board and club owner Mike Ashley after the shock resignation of manager Kevin Keegan, culminating in a long and emotional statement from Ashley on 14 September announcing he intended to sell NUFC, stating that he had listened to the fans who "want him out".NUFC official statement from Mike Ashley , 14 September 2008 A backdrop to the demonstrations was a general feeling of disorganisation through lack of a common voice, resulting in various competing and conflicting ideas of how to protest against the club. Fans also sought an outlet to offence felt by the insinuation by Ashley in his official statement that he or his family would be assaulted if he attended a game,Newcastle owner Mike Ashley enlists help of former Football League chairman to sell club The Telegraph, 16 September 2008 and that the fans demanded unrealistic Galactico signings. Fans were also seeking to correct the perceived inaccurate and stereotypical depiction of their aims and intentions by sections of the national media, such as unrealistic expectations and demands while claiming to be working towards a seat on the board.
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The day after Ashley's statement on 15 September 2008 a press release from True Faith and The Mag announced a public meeting would be held on the night of 16 September 2008 to judge support for a proposed new supporter's group, initially identified as the Newcastle United Supporters Group. The release stated that while the continuation of the protest against the Ashley regime would be the initial focus of the group, the group was also intended to be a long term initiative, and the proposed group would be "energetic, intelligent and responsibly represent the broad church of Newcastle United's support".New supporters' club to give fans a voice Website of the Evening Chronicle, 15 September 2008 The group would through an inclusive mass membership attempt to be the legitimate voice of the supporters of NUFC,No let-up in Newcastle fans' actions against Mike Ashley The Times, 16 September 2008 something which neither supporting fanzines, despite earlier releasing a joint statement over the desired form of the Ashley protest, had "never claimed to be". The meeting was held in the Tyneside Irish Centre opposite the Gallowgate End of St James' Park, home stadium of NUFC, attended by a "few hundred" fans.
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Denzil Webster played fly-half for Castleford RUFC, aged-19 he played wing, and scored 2-tries for the Army Rugby Union against Oxford University RFC during January 1953, he was signed by Castleford in February 1953 in time to be included in their 1953 Challenge Cup squad register, the Castleford Rugby League Supporters Club paid the £450 cost of his signing-on fee (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £29,540 in 2017), Castleford declined a "substantial offer" for Denzil Webster by Bradford Northern during April 1955, he, along with Derek Smart, scored a hat-trick of tries in the 32-12 victory over Hull Kingston Rovers on Saturday 31 March 1956, he was transferred from Castleford to York for a transfer-fee of £3000 (based on increases in average earnings, this would be approximately £164,900 in 2017). he made his début for York on Saturday 13 October 1956, he played in a trial match for the 1958 Great Britain Lions tour of Australia and New Zealand, but ultimately he was not selected for Great Britain, he played his last match for York on Saturday 20 September 1958, he retired from rugby league due to a knee-injury.
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