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Road-Sea Southampton F.C.
Road-Sea Southampton, commonly referred to as RS Southampton, was a semi-professional football club, based near Southampton, England, best known for moving directly from playing in amateur league park level football to the semi-professional Southern League during their fourteen-year existence. History Road-Sea were founded in 1973 and were named after their corporate sponsors (a locally based freight shipping company). The club originally played in the City of Southampton Sunday League, where they won every possible honour as they rose up through the divisions. In 1976–77 in English football, 1976–77 they reached the semi-final of the FA Sunday Cup. Road-Sea then purchased some land at Staplewood, Marchwood, near Southampton and with the aid of the company's financial backing, and momentum from team manager Peter Price, saw the facilities develop. This resulted in an ambitious application to join the semi-professional Southern Football League, Southern League being surpris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Staplewood Campus
Staplewood Campus in Marchwood, Hampshire is the Training ground (association football), training ground of Southampton F.C., Southampton Football Club. It was the home ground of Road-Sea Southampton F.C., Road-Sea Southampton until 1987 before being purchased by Southampton. The training campus houses the men's and women's first team alongside the academy sides. History The site was originally named Road-Sea Park and was the home ground of defunct Semi-professional sports, semi-professional football club Road-Sea Southampton F.C., Road-Sea Southampton. Following Road-Sea Southampton's resignation from the league and folding, the ground was sold to Southampton who began to use it for training purposes as well as hosting their reserve and youth matches. Redevelopment In October 2013, a plan to build five pitches and a 11-metre high training dome, a 108-space car park and floodlights at the pitches next to the A326 road, A326 was approved. The plans were objected by three letters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Football Clubs In Hampshire
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Southern Football League Clubs
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Association Football Clubs Disestablished In 1987
Association may refer to: *Club (organization), an association of two or more people united by a common interest or goal *Trade association, an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry *Voluntary association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose, usually as volunteers * Non profit association, a body formed by individuals to accomplish a purpose without any profit interest *Collaboration, the act of working together Association in various fields of study *Association (archaeology), the close relationship between objects or contexts. * Association (astronomy), combined or co-added group of astronomical exposures *Association (chemistry) *Association (ecology), a type of ecological community *Genetic association, when one or more genotypes within a population co-occur *Association (object-oriented programming), defines a relationship between classes of objects *Association (psychology), a connection between two or more concep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sport In Southampton
Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability and skills. Sport may provide enjoyment to participants and entertainment to spectators. The number of participants in a particular sport can vary from hundreds of people to a single individual. Sport competitions may use a team or single person format, and may be open, allowing a broad range of participants, or closed, restricting participation to specific groups or those invited. Competitions may allow a "tie" or "draw", in which there is no single winner; others provide tie-breaking methods to ensure there is only one winner. They also may be arranged in a tournament format, producing a champion. Many sports leagues make an annual champion by arranging games in a regular sports season, followed in some cases by playoffs. Sport is generally recognised as system of activities based in physical athleticism or physical dexterity, with major competitions admitt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Defunct Football Clubs In England
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Defunct may refer to: * ''Defunct'' (video game), 2014 * Zombie process or defunct process, in Unix-like operating systems See also * * :Former entities * End-of-life product * Obsolescence Obsolescence is the process of becoming antiquated, out of date, old-fashioned, no longer in general use, or no longer useful, or the condition of being in such a state. When used in a biological sense, it means imperfect or rudimentary when comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dean Mooney
Dean Francis Mooney (born 24 July 1956) is an English former professional footballer who played in the Football League as a forward. Career Mooney went abroad to Norway in 1978 to play 3rd Division football with Haugar, joining fellow Englishmen Dennis Burnett (manager) and Barry Salvage. Mooney was a great hit from the start and was the club's top scorer for the two season he was at the club. After winning promotion to the second division in 1978, Haugar went all the way to the 1979 Norwegian Football Cup final, and Mooney put them 1-0 up against Viking with a trademark header. A dubious penalty and an own-goal turned the match around after half-time, in what was to be Mooney's last game for the club. He then joined GAIS Gais () is a village and a municipality in the canton of Appenzell Ausserrhoden in Switzerland. The area of Gais is . In 1977, the village Gais received the Wakker Prize for the development and preservation of its architectural heritage. The ... fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Bennett (footballer, Born 1952)
Paul Reginald Bennett (born 4 February 1952) is an English former footballer who played as a centre-back during the FA Cup run of Southampton in 1976, and also had spells at Reading and Aldershot. Early days Born in Southampton, Bennett attended Taunton's Grammar School in Southampton, before joining the ground staff at The Dell. Playing career Southampton Bennett signed amateur papers in July 1968, before moving up to become a professional in November 1969. He made his debut at home to Tottenham Hotspur on 22 April 1972, and was charged with marking Martin Chivers, who was a former Saints player and had coincidentally also attended Taunton's Grammar School. Bennett was a rugged no-nonsense sort of centre-half in the same mould as John McGrath, the man he followed into the senior side. At 6 ft Bennett was not the tallest of centre-halves but he read the game well and was a fearless tackler. In the 1972–73 season, partnering Jim Steele, he firmly established himsel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1976 FA Cup Final
The 1976 FA Cup final was the 95th final of the FA Cup. It took place on 1 May 1976 at Wembley Stadium and was contested between Manchester United and Southampton. United had finished third in the First Division that season, and were strong favourites, while unfancied Southampton had finished sixth in the Second Division, Southampton had more players with FA Cup final experience than Manchester United, namely Jim McCalliog (1966), Peter Rodrigues (1969) and Peter Osgood (1970). In one of the biggest shocks in the history of the final, Southampton won 1–0 through an 83rd-minute goal from Bobby Stokes. It was the first time Southampton won a major trophy, and the last time that Elizabeth II attended a final and presented the trophy to the winners. As their women's team had won the 1976 WFA Cup final a week prior, they became the first club to win the men's and women's FA Cup in the same season. Road to Wembley Match summary Manchester United started stronger, and miss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ian Turner (footballer, Born 1953)
Ian Turner (born 17 January 1953) is an English former professional footballer, who won the FA Cup when he played for Southampton as goalkeeper in the 1976 FA Cup final. Club career Early career Turner originally played at centre-half for his local team, South Bank. However, during a match against Huddersfield Reserves, he played as a goalkeeper and was noticed by Huddersfield Town manager, Ian Greaves, who signed him as a professional in October 1970. He transferred to Grimsby Town in March 1972 where he first became acquainted with manager Lawrie McMenemy. Southampton In March 1974, Southampton were seeking a replacement for long-time goalkeeper, Eric Martin, so McMenemy, who was by now Southampton's manager, went back to his former club, Grimsby, to sign Turner. He was the first choice keeper for the next few seasons, and in May 1976 was part of the Southampton team who beat Manchester United 1–0 in the FA Cup final. Manchester United started stronger, and missed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
