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Old Westminsters F.C. is an association football club composed of former pupils of Westminster School, London, England. They play in the Arthurian League. History Westminster has an historic joint claim to a major role in the development of Football (soccer), Association Football, which remains the school's largest sport. During the 1840s at both Westminster and Charterhouse School, Charterhouse, pupils' surroundings meant they were confined to playing their football in the cloisters, making the rough and tumble of the handling game that was developing at other schools such as Rugby School, Rugby impossible, and necessitating a new code of rules. During the formulation of the rules of association football in the 1860s representatives of Westminster School and Charterhouse also pushed for a passing game, in particular rules that allowed forward passing ("passing on"). Other schools (in particular Eton College and Harrow School, Harrow) favoured a dribbling game with a tight off ...
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Arthurian League
The Arthurian League is an English association football Sports league, league for clubs comprising old boys of Public school (United Kingdom), public schools founded in 1961. It is affiliated to the Amateur Football Alliance and is not part of the English football league system. It takes its name – via the Arthur Dunn Cup in which all founder members competed – from Old Etonian and England international Arthur Dunn. League competition The Premier and First Divisions are restricted to first teams, while the remaining divisions are open to all teams. Cup competitions Most first teams contest the Arthur Dunn Cup. Some enter cups run by – or affiliated to – the Amateur Football Alliance or other Greater London associations. In addition, the League runs two open aged knock-out cups and two veterans cups as follows: * The Junior League Cup (for teams in Divisions 2, 3, 4 and 5) * The David Woolcott Trophy (for teams in Divisions 4 and 5) * The Derrick Moore Veterans Cup (for a ...
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FA Cup
The Football Association Challenge Cup, more commonly known as the FA Cup, is an annual Single-elimination tournament, knockout association football, football competition in domestic Football in England, English football. First played during the 1871–72 FA Cup, 1871–72 season, it is the list of oldest football competitions, oldest national football competition in the world. It is organised by and named after the Football Association (the FA). A concurrent Women's FA Cup has been held since 1970. The competition is open to all eligible football club (association football), clubs down to level 9 of the English football league system, with level 10 clubs acting as stand-ins in the event of non-entries from above. A record 763 clubs competed in 2011–12 FA Cup, 2011–12. The tournament consists of 12 randomly drawn rounds followed by FA Cup semi-finals, the semi-finals and the FA Cup Final, final. Entrants are not seed (sports), seeded, although a system of Bye (sports), by ...
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Rangers F
A ranger is typically someone in a law enforcement or military/paramilitary role specializing in patrolling a given territory, called "ranging" or "scouting". The term most often refers to: * Park ranger or forest ranger, a person charged with protecting and preserving protected parklands and forests. ** National Park Service ranger, an employee of the National Park Service ** U.S. Forest Service ranger, an employee of the United States Forest Service ** Ranger of Windsor Great Park, a ceremonial office of the United Kingdom ** Includes the Keepers of Epping Forest who are charged to Range about the Forest in their duties. Ranger or Rangers may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Publications * Ranger's Apprentice, a series of novels by John Flanagan * '' Ranger Rick'', a children's nature magazine published by the United States National Wildlife Federation * ''Ranger'' (magazine), a former British comic magazine Fictional entities * Rangers (comics), a Marvel Comics sup ...
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Partick Thistle
Partick Thistle Football Club are a professional association football, football club from Glasgow, Scotland and currently plays in the . Despite their name, the club are based at Firhill Stadium in the Maryhill area of the city, and have not played in Partick since 1908. The club have been members of the Scottish Professional Football League (SPFL) since its formation in 2013, having previously been members of the Scottish Football League. Since 1936, Thistle have played in their distinctive red-and-yellow jerseys of varying designs, with hoops, stripes and predominantly yellow tops with red trims having been used, although in 2009 a centenary kit was launched in the original navy-blue style to commemorate 100 years at Firhill. Since 1908 the club have won the Scottish Football League Second Division, Scottish Second Division (third tier, now Scottish League One) twice and the Scottish Football League First Division, Scottish First Division (second tier, now the Scottish Champ ...
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West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion Football Club (), commonly known as West Brom or The Albion, is a professional association football club based in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England. They compete in the EFL Championship, the second level of the English football league system, English football league. The club was formed in 1878 and has played at its home ground, The Hawthorns, since 1900. Albion were a founder member of English Football League, the Football League in 1888–89 Football League, 1888, the first professional football league in the world. The club has spent the majority of its existence in the top tier of English football, where it has played for 82 seasons, most recently competing in the Premier League in 2021. They have been English football champions, champions of England once, in 1919–20 Football League, 1919–20, and have been runner-up twice, in 1924–25 Football League, 1924–25 and 1953–54 Football League, 1953–54. Albion have reached ten FA Cup finals and ...
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Bolton Wanderers F
Bolton ( , locally ) is a town in Greater Manchester in England. In the foothills of the West Pennine Moors, Bolton is between Manchester, Blackburn, Wigan, Bury, Greater Manchester, Bury and Salford. It is surrounded by several towns and villages that form the wider Metropolitan Borough of Bolton, borough, of which Bolton is the administrative centre. The town is within the Historic counties of England, historic county boundaries of Lancashire. A former mill town, Bolton has been a centre for textile production since the 14th century when Flemish people, Flemish weavers settled in the area, introducing a wool and cotton-weaving tradition. It was a 19th-century boomtown, development largely coincided with the introduction of textile manufacture during the Industrial Revolution. At its peak in 1929, its 216 cotton mills and 26 bleaching and dyeing works made it one of the largest and most productive centres of Spinning (textiles), cotton spinning in the world. The Brit ...
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Romford F
Romford is a large town in east London, England, located northeast of Charing Cross. Part of the London Borough of Havering, the town is one of the major metropolitan centres of Greater London identified in the London Plan. Historically part of the ancient parish of Hornchurch in the Becontree hundred of Essex, Romford has been a market town since 1247. It formed the administrative centre of the liberty of Havering until that liberty was dissolved in 1892, and became a civil parish of its own in 1849. Good road links to London and the opening of the railway station in 1839 were key to the development of the town. The economic history of Romford is characterised by a shift from agriculture to light industry and then to retail and commerce. As part of the suburban growth of London throughout the 20th century, Romford significantly expanded and increased in population, becoming a municipal borough in 1937. In 1965, following reform of local government in London, it merged wit ...
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Old Brightonians F
Old or OLD may refer to: Places *Old, Baranya, Hungary *Old, Northamptonshire, England *Old Street station, a railway and tube station in London (station code OLD) *OLD, IATA code for Old Town Municipal Airport and Seaplane Base, Old Town, Maine, United States People *Old (surname) Music *OLD (band), a grindcore/industrial metal group * ''Old'' (Danny Brown album), a 2013 album by Danny Brown * ''Old'' (Starflyer 59 album), a 2003 album by Starflyer 59 * "Old" (song), a 1995 song by Machine Head *"Old", a 1982 song by Dexys Midnight Runners from ''Too-Rye-Ay'' Other uses * ''Old'' (film), a 2021 American thriller film *''Oxford Latin Dictionary'' *Online dating *Over-Locknut Distance (or Dimension), a measurement of a bicycle wheel and frame See also *Old age *List of people known as the Old *''Old LP'', a 2019 album by That Dog * * *Olde, a list of people with the surname *Olds (other) Olds may refer to: People * The olds, a jocular and irreverent online nick ...
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Hotspur F
Hotspur may refer to: Football clubs *Tottenham Hotspur F.C., based in Tottenham, London, England * Holyhead Hotspur F.C., based in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales * Pietà Hotspurs F.C., based in Pietà, Malta * Victoria Hotspurs F.C., based in Victoria, Malta * Linton Hotspur FC, based in West Linton, Scotland Military *, several British ships *, a US Navy transport ship *General Aircraft Hotspur, a Second World War British glider * Hawker Hotspur, a Second World War British fighter Arts and entertainment *''The Hotspur'', a former British boys' comic *''Hotspur'', a three-issue Eclipse comic book series *HMS ''Hotspur'', a fictional Royal Navy ship in the novel ''Hornblower and the Hotspur'' *MCRN ''Hotspur'', a fictional warship of the Martian Congressional Republic Navy in the science-fiction novel series ''The Expanse'' *Hotspur, a fictional family in the novel '' Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite'' by Anthony Trollope Other uses * Hotspur, nickname of English knight Henry Per ...
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Kennington Oval
Kennington is a district in south London, England. It is mainly within the London Borough of Lambeth, running along the boundary with the London Borough of Southwark, a boundary which can be discerned from the early medieval period between the Lambeth and St George's parishes of those boroughs respectively. It is located south of Charing Cross in Inner London and is identified as a local centre in the London Plan. It was a royal manor in the parish of Lambeth (parish), St Mary, Lambeth in the Surrey, county of Surrey and was the administrative centre of the parish from 1853. Proximity to central London was key to the development of the area as a residential suburb and it was Metropolis Management Act 1855, incorporated into the metropolitan area of London in 1855. Kennington is the location of three significant London landmarks: the Oval cricket ground, the Imperial War Museum, and Kennington Park. Its population at the United Kingdom Census 2011 was 15,106. History Toponymy ...
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