Non League Football.

[BillyDee]

There's a Port Vale near me. Always thought it odd as kid that the football team played over 100 miles away...

 

[Alan]

Originally from Woolwich area of London. Arsenal relates to the Royal Arsenal munitions site at Woolwich

Damn, thought I finally caught the bastards.

 

[Johnny75]

Nobody is ok with Port Vale.
I'd always assumed that Port Vale was an area of that part of Stoke, although I've never been arsed to check.

Named after the pub/ house the club was formed in.

No such place as Port Vale in Stoke, the ground is in Burslem.

 

[Johnny75]

Damn, thought I finally caught the bastards.

It's about as literal a name as you can get.

 

[Mel Evo]

Crewe & Shrewsbury closer. Although Crewe aren't normally classed as a big club.

Used to live near Wrexham though

Hang on. Shrewsbury are a big club?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

There's a Port Vale near me. Always thought it odd as kid that the football team played over 100 miles away...

The further you are away from Burslem, the better.

No such place as Raith as in Raith Rovers either.

 

[Mel Evo]

St Johnstone was the one that perplexed me till my Dad got lost driving us on a family holiday and we arrived at the ground trying to get out of Perth.
Stevenage and Crawley are reversals of this quiz: they’re definitely places, but I still find it hard to believe they’re football teams.

 

[sycophantia]

Should have called themselves Burslem Clayheads.

 

[Tyrannosaurus Dan]

Not to mention they don't even play in Wales,
Don't even get me started on Berwick Rangers.

To be fair to Berwick Rangers, it’s probably easier for them to travel to matches in Scotland than it would be in England.

 

[Kenny]

This is the kind of shit I love from the owners of Wrexham

https://twitter.com/x/status/1646811762707111936

Just involving the locals in stupid stuff like this is great. The local choir are part of this and it must be brilliant to get dragged along for the ride with Reynolds and the other one

 

[Johnny75]

Can't wait to hear what Jeff has lined up for Guo.

 

[Kenny]

 

[leedswolf]

Named after the pub/ house the club was formed in.

No such place as Port Vale in Stoke, the ground is in Burslem.

Why are they called Port Vale? - feature by onevalefan.co.uk

Why are they called Port Vale? Here is an explanation of the origin of the football club's name by the onevalefan.co.uk website.

www.onevalefan.co.uk

Perhaps the poster's reference to 'Stoke' is a generic one. It's used by most Potters instead of Stoke-on-Trent and not necessarily Stoke-upon-Trent?

 

[Alan]

Why are they called Port Vale? - feature by onevalefan.co.uk

Why are they called Port Vale? Here is an explanation of the origin of the football club's name by the onevalefan.co.uk website.

www.onevalefan.co.uk

Perhaps the poster's reference to 'Stoke' is a generic one. It's used by most Potters instead of Stoke-on-Trent and not necessarily Stoke-upon-Trent?

Not "Newcastle-on-Tyne" United, either (though if there's some logical reason for that, I'm happy to be corrected).

It's very funny to me that there only seem to be ~theories~ about where the name Port Vale came from.

 

[Tredman]

I think we can all agree it comes from a very grim place.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Not "Newcastle-on-Tyne" United, either (though if there's some logical reason for that, I'm happy to be corrected).

It's very funny to me that there only seem to be ~theories~ about where the name Port Vale came from.

If you say "Newcastle" then pretty much everyone will assume you mean the one in the North East. Not the one in Staffordshire or the one in Shropshire or the one in Australia.

 

[Tredman]

Stokies who claim to be from Newcastle just have an inferiority complex

 

[Keef]

Nobody mentioning Grimsby playing in cleethorpes? If we are talking shitholes with football teams.

 

[Alan]

Nobody mentioning Grimsby playing in cleethorpes? If we are talking shitholes with football teams.

Right in the name innit

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Nobody mentioning Grimsby playing in cleethorpes? If we are talking shitholes with football teams.

Loads of those though. Millwall don't play in Millwall. Bolton don't play in Bolton any more.