What's in a name?

[Astral Weeks]

Good article. The only other club with a unique name that I can think of are Sheffield Wednesday. Always wondered why they are named after a day of the week.

A cricket team called something like the Wednesday Cricket Club formed the football team. They were called Wednesday as that's the day they played their cricket matches.

Now I know. Cheers.

If I remember correctly, they were founded by lads who worked as shop assistants, who used to get together to play on their afternoon off, Wednesday being early closing day in most towns in those days
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EDIT: Just seen Colhint's post a few minutes before mine. Great minds!

[Dave Cooper please]

Good article. The only other club with a unique name that I can think of are Sheffield Wednesday. Always wondered why they are named after a day of the week.

There are around 10 league clubs: Forest, Hotspur, Alexandra, Argyle...I used to know them all when I was a lad.

Stanley, Palace, Vale, Rangers, Orient, End and erm, i'm stuck now. Oh Dons.

Heath?

[amfy]

I am duty bound to add 'north end'.

[PaulWinch again]

It is always something I cherish about being a Villa fan, that we have a unique name next to all the Uniteds, Cities, Rovers etc.

[Chico Hamilton III]

I feel duty bound to remove Palace.

It's just the second word of a two-worded place name. Like Small Heath.

This is the pedants' thread?

[1874]

Rushden & Diamonds is another club name I like. Mainly because it has the word 'diamonds' in it. Arsenal isn't too bad either. Although I think they ended up with it by omitting 'Woolwich' from their name when they moved from south of the river.   

[Nev]

Rushden & Diamonds is another club name I like. Mainly because it has the word 'diamonds' in it. Arsenal isn't too bad either. Although I think they ended up with it by omitting 'Woolwich' from their name when they moved from south of the river.   

Yes Arsenal were known as "Woolwich" Arsenal and of course "Boring Arsenal" and "Lucky Arsenal" but seem now to have settled on "Fuckin' Arsenal".

[Chico Hamilton III]

I love the fact that there's a Woolwich Arsenal station in South East London and an Emirates station in East London.

The thought of all those Arsenal soccer tourists going to the wrong train station brings out the child in me .

[ian c.]

I recall hearing an interview with the legendary German commentator Rudi Michel (he did the commentary for the 1954 "Wunder von Bern" WC Final) where he professed a love of Aston Villa and Arsenal, in part due to the names.

[darren woolley]

It's the greatest name in football and I'm glad it's us who's got the name Aston Villa.

[Stu]

The reason behind the name was,  they originally started from a bunch of local shopworkers . Who at that time, had half day closing on wednesdays. So the chaps would organise cricket matches. Saturdays were ruled out because they were all working and no one played sport on Sundays

Who did they play against then?

[PeterWithesShin]

The reason behind the name was,  they originally started from a bunch of local shopworkers . Who at that time, had half day closing on wednesdays. So the chaps would organise cricket matches. Saturdays were ruled out because they were all working and no one played sport on Sundays

Who did they play against then?

A bit more info about them here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wednesday_Cricket_Club 

[Colhint]

The reason behind the name was,  they originally started from a bunch of local shopworkers . Who at that time, had half day closing on wednesdays. So the chaps would organise cricket matches. Saturdays were ruled out because they were all working and no one played sport on Sundays

Who did they play against then?

other shopkeepers

[WarszaVillan]

Heart of Midlothian is a great name

[PeterWithesShin]

Deportivo Wanka is even better.

Who wouldn't want one of these?