| Strange Club Names 17:40 - Jul 10 with 4530 views | QPRSteve |
Just discovered that there is a team from Madrid playing in the Spanish Third Division called Flat Earth FC.
New owner changed the club name last year as he is proponent of the flat earth theory. Let's hope he doesn't try to take over a club in the EFL as he's bound to pass the FPP test.
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| Strange Club Names on 23:21 - Jul 10 with 1030 views | CiderwithRsie |
| Strange Club Names on 21:57 - Jul 10 by stowmarketrange |
As someone who was born in Battersea can I strongly object to any connection between them c@nts And Battersea.
Can’t we just call them East Fulham? |
No. Definitely a South of the River club. I usually call them South London Nazis but NBRCFC it is from now on. | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 23:25 - Jul 10 with 1024 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
Happy Valley of Hong Kong. [Post edited 10 Jul 2020 23:46]
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| Strange Club Names on 23:44 - Jul 10 with 999 views | karl |
| Strange Club Names on 22:51 - Jul 10 by slmrstid |
I always used to love finding the obscure, or bizarre, team names on Football Manager
There is Jamie Vardy's first team, Stocksbridge Park Steels (a PE teacher of mine played for them in the 70s too)
Prescot Cables, Karl Connolly played for them after leaving us, no idea where they're based, up north somewhere.
Wellingborough Whitworth's from my home town - originally a factory team, hence the name.
Forres Mechanics in Scotland. Also a Dundee Violet. Not sure if either of them exist any more but they used to.
And for old factory/union sides, Harrogate Railway Athletic, and I believe now defunct Leigh Railway Mechanics Institute.
Then there was/is Institute in Northern Ireland. Not sure where that came from.
I find all the quirky names interesting! |
Same league as Forres Mechanics are Inverurie Loco Works tying in with Leigh RMI and Harrogate of course [Post edited 10 Jul 2020 23:44]
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| Strange Club Names on 23:52 - Jul 10 with 987 views | karl |
Scottish football has many teams where the name of the club isn't necessarily related to their town/City name.
10 of the top 22 clubs (SPL and Championship) have no reference to their area.
Counting Rangers and Celtic as not being referenced with Glasgow as part of their name which I only do on here!
Obviously QPR is similar but can't think of a large number in England? | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 00:05 - Jul 11 with 975 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Strange Club Names on 23:52 - Jul 10 by karl |
Scottish football has many teams where the name of the club isn't necessarily related to their town/City name.
10 of the top 22 clubs (SPL and Championship) have no reference to their area.
Counting Rangers and Celtic as not being referenced with Glasgow as part of their name which I only do on here!
Obviously QPR is similar but can't think of a large number in England? |
QPR does reference an area to be fair, just that it’s three miles up the road.
You could argue Arsenal aren’t named after an area anymore. [Post edited 11 Jul 2020 0:07]
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| Strange Club Names on 00:06 - Jul 11 with 974 views | BazzaInTheLoft |
| Strange Club Names on 22:52 - Jul 10 by MrSheen |
Corinthian Casuals are a merger of two historic amateur clubs. Corinthian toured the world at the beginning of the 20th Century. Real Madrid wear white shirts in their honour and they inspired the Corinthians club of São Paulo. There’s an entertaining documentary about amateur players from the side of the A3 going to play a centenary friendly in front of 50,000 fans in São Paulo and their Portuguese Twitter account has hundreds of thousands of followers. |
Famously refused to take penalties when they were introduced because they were unsportsmanlike. | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 00:12 - Jul 11 with 973 views | SonofNorfolt |
My absolute favourite are Erzgebirge Aue, a reasonably sized second tier club from Saxony, former East Germany, that have still eluded me on my travels.
Bolivia's 'The Strongest' must be worth a visit, especially in my mind, the derby against Bugle FC which would be a must, they do not exist but should.
Finland's actual Santa Claus cannot be discarded as pure myth whilst the North Battersea Money laundering window licking c unts should be disregarded completely.
Feel free to ask for further nonsensical advice............ |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 00:18 - Jul 11 with 967 views | Loftgirl |
| Strange Club Names on 23:52 - Jul 10 by karl |
Scottish football has many teams where the name of the club isn't necessarily related to their town/City name.
10 of the top 22 clubs (SPL and Championship) have no reference to their area.
Counting Rangers and Celtic as not being referenced with Glasgow as part of their name which I only do on here!
Obviously QPR is similar but can't think of a large number in England? |
Isn't Grimsby Town in Cleethorpes? |  | | |
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| Strange Club Names on 00:19 - Jul 11 with 966 views | queensparker |
There was a team playing in the South African league years ago when I was there called Dangerous Darkies. |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 00:24 - Jul 11 with 961 views | karl |
| Strange Club Names on 00:18 - Jul 11 by Loftgirl |
Isn't Grimsby Town in Cleethorpes? |
Yes sure that's right, is there an area called Grimsby? Almost sounds like a well deserved nickname! | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 00:52 - Jul 11 with 952 views | SonofNorfolt |
| Strange Club Names on 00:24 - Jul 11 by karl |
Yes sure that's right, is there an area called Grimsby? Almost sounds like a well deserved nickname! |
Karl,
Your eleven should be the Scapa Flow UXB's..... | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 01:03 - Jul 11 with 941 views | karl |
| Strange Club Names on 00:52 - Jul 11 by SonofNorfolt |
Karl,
Your eleven should be the Scapa Flow UXB's..... |
They still pull them up but very few recently as it happens.
Was a good ruse when fishing was poor, get a torpedoe in the net during a good spell but set in a quiet spot on a buoy and when things went quiet haul it up and report it to the authorities, got paid a fee (no idea what it was tbh) until the navy divers came up and did a controlled explosion.
Fair carry on, was at least 3 RN vehicles up the road all Land Rovers so slow as sin on the A9 and then a full rigmarole with full set of divers etc (always looked strange considering the lax attitude of the scallop divers here) always blew them up so seemed a waste of all that effort to usðŸ˜
Fishermen got 3 or 4 days pay for beggar all, never happened in the summer! | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 01:14 - Jul 11 with 938 views | SonofNorfolt |
| Strange Club Names on 01:03 - Jul 11 by karl |
They still pull them up but very few recently as it happens.
Was a good ruse when fishing was poor, get a torpedoe in the net during a good spell but set in a quiet spot on a buoy and when things went quiet haul it up and report it to the authorities, got paid a fee (no idea what it was tbh) until the navy divers came up and did a controlled explosion.
Fair carry on, was at least 3 RN vehicles up the road all Land Rovers so slow as sin on the A9 and then a full rigmarole with full set of divers etc (always looked strange considering the lax attitude of the scallop divers here) always blew them up so seemed a waste of all that effort to usðŸ˜
Fishermen got 3 or 4 days pay for beggar all, never happened in the summer! |
F uckin great.
You and I are going to visit every boozer in Kirkwall one day whether you like it or not...... | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 03:27 - Jul 11 with 915 views | timcocking |
| Strange Club Names on 19:36 - Jul 10 by MrSheen |
Cape-Coast Mysterious Dwarfs (Ghana)
Club Blooming (Bolivia)
The Strongest (Bolivia) |
Cape-Coast Mysterious Dwarfs? That's surely the best name ever? |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 03:34 - Jul 11 with 912 views | karl |
| Strange Club Names on 02:16 - Jul 11 by SonofNorfolt |
Aah but Ewan and yourself have a double jeopardy, Hibs and QPR. Ideally I would visit Brechin's hedge on the Saturday then fly there for the evening and subsequent Wicker Man (I know, geographically inaccurate but near enough) re-enactment followed by the finest Scottish fry up served by bare breasted Orcadian virgins adorning QPR Adidas silk shorts (circa 1984)
Am I asking too much? |
Yes. Tbh he was my first Internet date, my wife is actually quite accustomed to my meeting random blokes from London now. I'll be honest I agreed to meet Ewan in Kirkwall cos it felt a little safer, it was a bit of a breakthrough moment for me. If that hadn't gone so well then Baz would still be filling Cubans full of Corbyns dreams😠[Post edited 11 Jul 2020 3:48]
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| Strange Club Names on 04:25 - Jul 11 with 904 views | Match82 |
| Strange Club Names on 22:52 - Jul 10 by MrSheen |
Corinthian Casuals are a merger of two historic amateur clubs. Corinthian toured the world at the beginning of the 20th Century. Real Madrid wear white shirts in their honour and they inspired the Corinthians club of São Paulo. There’s an entertaining documentary about amateur players from the side of the A3 going to play a centenary friendly in front of 50,000 fans in São Paulo and their Portuguese Twitter account has hundreds of thousands of followers. |
Remember hearing that about 15 years later, made me feel a little better! |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 09:29 - Jul 11 with 852 views | qprxtc |
The Bastard Son of St Judes Institute and Christchurch Rangers Football and Athletic Club.
BSSJICR FC for short. |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 10:24 - Jul 11 with 825 views | stowmarketrange |
There used to be a team called Shepshed Charthouse that used to be regularly in the qualifying rounds of the FA cup in the early 70’s,but they might have changed their name to Shepshed Dynamo now.
There was also one season where Dagenham were in the same league as Rushden & Diamonds,so there was D&R v R&D.But At least they dropped the Ilford and Irthlingborough from their names or it could’ve been RID v DRI. |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 10:37 - Jul 11 with 815 views | MrSheen |
| Strange Club Names on 10:24 - Jul 11 by stowmarketrange |
There used to be a team called Shepshed Charthouse that used to be regularly in the qualifying rounds of the FA cup in the early 70’s,but they might have changed their name to Shepshed Dynamo now.
There was also one season where Dagenham were in the same league as Rushden & Diamonds,so there was D&R v R&D.But At least they dropped the Ilford and Irthlingborough from their names or it could’ve been RID v DRI. |
Irthlingborough Diamonds! Give me an I... |  | | |
| Strange Club Names on 10:44 - Jul 11 with 812 views | komradkirk |
My Local club has a quaint name hence my log in name...Ballyclare Comrades.
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| Strange Club Names on 11:07 - Jul 11 with 801 views | TwoHalves |
| Strange Club Names on 03:27 - Jul 11 by timcocking |
Cape-Coast Mysterious Dwarfs? That's surely the best name ever? |
I can confirm the existence of the Mysterious Dwarfs. In fact I can even claim to have seen them - in a local derby with the Cape Coast Vipers when I was in Ghana for the 2008 Africa Cup of Nations.
Another good source for 'teams with strange names' is the FA Cup Qualifying Rounds. Last year I was particularly taken with a team called Roman Glass St George, although the team I chose to 'adopt' and follow until their eventual elimination was Cray Valley Paper Mills. | | | |
| Strange Club Names on 11:21 - Jul 11 with 788 views | Clive_Anderson |
Palmeiras (palm trees)
Cruzeiro (a constellation you can see in the Southern hemisphere that looks like a cross)
Both clubs used to be called Pallestra Italia, but foreign names were banned and they had to change them
Vasco de Gama (Portuguese explorer)
Náutico (Nautical)
Grêmio (Guild)
Two clubs ferroviario and ferroviaria in Brazil that mean railway and railway worker (I think).
Defensa y Justicia in Argentina
Torpedo Moscow (navy team)
Lokomotiv Moscow (railway workers team)
Lots of Dynamo and Dinamos in the old Soviet Union which comes from an old Soviet sports team. [Post edited 11 Jul 2020 11:21]
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| Strange Club Names on 12:09 - Jul 11 with 762 views | loftus77 |
| Strange Club Names on 23:52 - Jul 10 by karl |
Scottish football has many teams where the name of the club isn't necessarily related to their town/City name.
10 of the top 22 clubs (SPL and Championship) have no reference to their area.
Counting Rangers and Celtic as not being referenced with Glasgow as part of their name which I only do on here!
Obviously QPR is similar but can't think of a large number in England? |
"They'll be dancing in the streets of Raith tonight!"
Ah. | | | |
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