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Neil Grayson
Neil Grayson (born 1 November 1964) is an English former professional footballer who played as a striker. Club career Grayson's first club was local outfit Rowntree Mackintosh, playing in the Northern Counties East Football League Division One. He was snapped up by Doncaster Rovers in March 1990 where he stayed for just over a year. He has had spells at a number of clubs at various tiers, including York City, Chesterfield and Northampton Town in the Football League. Whilst at Northampton he scored the fastest ever hat-trick by a Northampton player, in five minutes against Hartlepool, and also helped the Cobblers win the Division Three playoffs. In 1997, he dropped back into non-league football with Hereford United who paid £20,000 for him. He quickly became a fans favourite, scoring his first ever FA Cup goals in Hereford's 2–1 revenge win over Brighton, and went on to score a goal in every two games for the Edgar Street side. This was enough for Cheltenham Town to make a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
York
York is a cathedral city in North Yorkshire, England, with Roman Britain, Roman origins, sited at the confluence of the rivers River Ouse, Yorkshire, Ouse and River Foss, Foss. It has many historic buildings and other structures, such as a York Minster, minster, York Castle, castle and York city walls, city walls, all of which are Listed building, Grade I listed. It is the largest settlement and the administrative centre of the wider City of York district. It is located north-east of Leeds, south of Newcastle upon Tyne and north of London. York's built-up area had a recorded population of 141,685 at the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 census. The city was founded under the name of Eboracum in AD 71. It then became the capital of Britannia Inferior, a province of the Roman Empire, and was later the capital of the kingdoms of Deira, Northumbria and Jórvík, Scandinavian York. In the England in the Middle Ages, Middle Ages it became the Province of York, northern England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
England National Football C Team
The England national football C team (previously known as the England National Game XI and the England Semi-Pro national team) are the football teams that represent England at non-League level. Formed in 1979 as the England Non-League team, it features players who play for clubs outside the Premier League and English Football League. Currently, the majority of selected players are full-time professionals with National League clubs. Home matches are played at various League and non-league grounds across the country. They play friendly matches with equivalent teams from other nations. Between 1979 and 2008, they competed in the Four Nations Tournament each season, along with Scotland, Wales, and the full Gibraltar teams. In the tournament in 1980, held in Veenendaal in the Netherlands, the opposition was Scotland (players outside the Premier Division, notably Ally McCoist, then playing for St Johnstone), Netherlands Amateurs and Italy under-21. They have more recently begun play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Midlands Counties League
The East Midlands Counties Football League was an English football league that operated from 2008 to 2021, covering the counties of Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire in the East Midlands. The league had one division, which stood at the tenth level of the football pyramid. History The league was formed in 2008, drawing clubs from the Northern Counties East League (2), Central Midlands League (8) and Leicestershire Senior League (8) to create a division at level 10 of the English football league system. On 15 May 2008 The FA Leagues Committee placed the new league at Step 6 in the National League System.National League structure The FA, 15 May 2008 Eighteen clubs were invited to form the new league; *From the Central Midlands League: [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oadby Town F
Oadby is a town in the borough of Oadby and Wigston in Leicestershire, England. Oadby is a district centre south-east of Leicester on the A6 road. Leicester Racecourse is situated on the border between Oadby and Stoneygate. The University of Leicester Botanical Garden is in Oadby. Oadby had a population of 23,849 in 2011, and like its neighbour Wigston is made up of five wards. The Borough of Oadby and Wigston is twinned with Maromme in France, and Norderstedt in Germany. History Angles, Danes and Normans There has been a habitation in Oadby since an Anglian settlement in the early Anglo-Saxon period. Though the name Oadby is Danish (meaning "Outi's dwelling") it must have existed long before the Danish invasions as is shown by the existence of a pagan Anglian cemetery. The original Anglian name has been lost. In 1760, on Brocks Hill, evidence of an Anglian burial ground was discovered. The Middle Angles came under the rule of the kings of Mercia and were later conquered ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blackwell Miners Welfare F
Blackwell may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Blackwell (series), ''Blackwell'' (series), adventure games for the PC * Blackwell, a character in the manga series ''Gals!'' * Blackwell (band), a US rock band formed by John Bundrick in 1969 * Blackwell Academy, a fictional school in the game ''Life Is Strange (video game), Life Is Strange'' * Richard Blackwell, (aka "Mr. Blackwell", 1922-2008), American fashion designer and critic, best known for his annual "worst dressed" lists Places Canada * Blackwell, Ontario United Kingdom * Blackwell, County Durham, England * Blackwell, Cumberland, Cumbria, England * Blackwell (historic house), Westmorland and Furness, Cumbria, England * Blackwell, Bolsover, Alfreton, Derbyshire, England * Blackwell, Warwickshire, a List of United Kingdom locations: Bla-Blac#Bla-Blac, location * Blackwell, West Sussex, a List of United Kingdom locations: Bla-Blac#Bla-Blac, location * Blackwell, Worcestershire, England * Blackwell in the Peak, Derbyshire, Eng ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
FourFourTwo
''FourFourTwo'' is an association football magazine published by British company Future. Issued monthly, it published its 300th edition in May 2019. It takes its name from the football formation of the same name, 4–4–2. Future acquired the magazine from Haymarket Media Group in 2018. Haymarket previously acquired Future's earlier football magazine ''Total Football'' in 2001 in exchange of subscriber list and the rights to the masthead of its defunct internet magazine ''The Net'', Haymarket later absorbed ''Total Football'' into ''FourFourTwo''. In 2008 ''FourFourTwo'' entered into a three-year shirt sponsorship deal with Swindon Town. Rankings and awards ''FourFourTwo'' has a number of annual rankings and awards. In 2007, the magazine put together its first ''FFT100'', their list of the 100 best footballers in the world. At the end of the 2012–13 Premier League season, FourFourTwo announced its first Stats Zone Awards. In May 2015, the inaugural list of the 50 best A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Droylsden F
Droylsden is a town in Tameside, Greater Manchester, England, east of Manchester and west of Ashton-under-Lyne, with a population at the 2011 Census of 22,689. Within the boundaries of the Historic counties of England, historic county of Lancashire, in the mid-19th century Droylsden grew as a mill town on the Ashton Canal, Ashton canal. Beginning in the early 1930s, Droylsden's population expanded rapidly as it became a housing overflow area for neighbouring Manchester. Since 1785, the Fairfield, Tameside, Fairfield area of Droylsden has been home to a Fairfield Moravian Church, Moravian Church. History Droylsden was settled around AD 900. Before Droylsden became a part of Greater Manchester, it was popularly referred to by Manchester, Mancunians as "The Silly Country". One suggestion as to the source of that nickname is that once a year, some of the townsfolk used to watch an annual carnival by bringing a pig and sitting it on a wall to watch the passing entertainment wit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moor Green F
Moor or Moors may refer to: Nature and ecology * Moorland, a habitat characterized by low-growing vegetation and acidic soils. People * Moor (surname) * Moors, Muslim inhabitants of the Maghreb, Iberian Peninsula, Sicily, and Malta during the Middle Ages * Moors, a variant name for Melungeon (tri-racial isolate groups) in colonial North America * Sri Lankan Moor, a minority Muslim group in Sri Lanka * United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors, an American religious group founded and led by Dwight York, which includes (among others) Yamassee Native American Moors of the Creek Nation Places * Moor, Nevada, United States * Moor, the German spelling of Mór, a town in Fejér county, Hungary * Moor Island, Nunavut, Canada an uninhabited island Animals * Black Telescope (or Black Moor), a variety of goldfish * Moor frog, native to Europe and Asia Arts and entertainment * ''Moor'' (film), a 2015 Pakistani drama by Jamshed Mehmood * Berber the Moor, a character in ''The Bastard Execut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Finnigan
John Francis Finnigan (born 29 March 1976) is an English football coach and former professional footballer. He played as a midfielder in the Football League for Lincoln City and Cheltenham Town after starting his career with Nottingham Forest. He later had spells in Non-League for Kidderminster Harriers, Bishop's Cleeve and Shortwood United. He had a brief spell in charge of Kidderminster in 2009. Playing career Born in Wakefield, Finnigan began his career with Nottingham Forest however failed to make an appearance at the City Ground and was loaned out to Lincoln City for his first spell with the club in 1998. He made his first league appearance for Lincoln in April 1998 against Macclesfield Town and featured in the Imps promotion to Division Two. Finnigan signed permanently for Lincoln City for an undisclosed fee, later revealed as £50,000.00 and for the 2000–01 season he was made team captain. Finnigan missed a large chunk of the 2001–02 season with a neck injury and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millennium Stadium
The Millennium Stadium (), known since 2016 as the Principality Stadium () for sponsorship reasons, is the national stadium of Wales. Located in Cardiff, it has a retractable roof and is the home of the Wales national rugby union team; it has also held Wales national football team games. Initially built to host the 1999 Rugby World Cup and replacing the National Stadium, Cardiff, National Stadium, it has gone on to host many other large-scale events, such as the Tsunami Relief Cardiff concert, the Super Special Stage of Wales Rally Great Britain, the Speedway Grand Prix of Great Britain and List of concerts at the Millennium Stadium, various concerts. It also hosted FA Cup, EFL Cup, League Cup and English Football League play-offs, Football League play-off finals while Wembley Stadium was being redeveloped between 2001 and 2006, as well as football matches during the 2012 Summer Olympics. The stadium is owned by Millennium Stadium plc, a subsidiary company of the Welsh Rugby Un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edgar Street
Edgar Street, currently known as MandM Edgar Street Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Hereford and was the home of Hereford United Football Club from the club's formation in 1924 until December 2014, when the club was wound up. It is now the home of Hereford FC, a phoenix club formed to replace the former club. It is the largest football stadium in the county of Herefordshire and is located on the edge of Hereford city centre, adjacent to the former cattle market (now The Old Market). The name of the stadium directly derives from the name of the street where it is located, which is also the A49. History The site has been used as a stadium since the late 19th century, although the year in which it was opened has not been widely recorded. The stadium was originally owned by the Hereford Athletic Ground Company and was also used by amateur football side Hereford City. In those days the ground's official name was Edgar Street Athletic Stadium, there was a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Football League
The English Football League (EFL) is a league of professional association football, football clubs from England and Wales. Founded in 1888 as the Football League, it is the oldest football league in Association football around the world, the world, and was the top-level football league in England from its foundation until 1992, when the top 22 clubs split from it to form the Premier League. The Football League was rebranded as the "English Football League" (EFL) starting with the 2016–17 season. The EFL is divided into the EFL Championship, Championship, EFL League One, League One and EFL League Two, League Two, with 24 clubs in each division, 72 in total, with promotion and relegation between them; the top Championship division clubs change places with the lowest-placed clubs in the Premier League, and the bottom clubs of League Two with the top clubs of the National League (division), National League. Currently four of the EFL clubs are from Wales – Cardiff City F.C., Car ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
