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I was thinking if MK isn't allowed and Wimbledon go into administration again, but that's probably a bit early isn't it?
West Ham? Now that's got possibilities.Well, the Icelandics bought West Ham for £85 million in 2006 so he could have gone in then, maybe? Think he got Newcastle in 2007.
Hearts weren't that imaginative. They were named after a Victorian nightclub in Edinburgh.Local imagery/mythology - New Brighton Tower, Maidstone Invicta, Heart of Midlothian
Two suggestions of my own:
*Alternate team colours of national sides - I have the mental image of the Wales side being known as 'Y Melysod' ('the daffodils' pls do not fail me google translate) because of their yellow jerseys, possibly in a TL where the St David's Cross became the national flag over the red dragon, but I'd be interested to hear suggestions from non-Home Nations/people who know what they're talking about.
*Everton being relegated from the top flight in 1998 - quite apart from the ramifications on the pitch, this could have interesting effects at a boardroom level given Kenwright (then a mere director) was influential in bringing Kendall back in 1997. Is it too much to hope that the worst professional Scouser of them all might be out on his ear?
On the former, Scotland could potential have gone for yellow as well.
Most nations use colours derived from the flag, but alternate oaths are open. Could a Chartist England (or Britain), or surviving Republican Spain wear purple? Could the Abruzzi have taken the field in red, white, or green? Juventus, famously, owe their colours to Notts County. If the UK contact was from elsewhere, then the Old Lady of Turin would dress in different colours.
Closer to home, Newcastle is one of the relatively few clubs called United which is actually a union if two clubs. If West had not suffered financial issues, the occasional "burgundy and blue hoops" away kit would be the home shirt. If they'd fallen any further, allowing East an outright takeover, they'd have ended up in... red and white stripes.
I had that in the TL I started in the old place which began with Newton Heath going bust (and spiralled well out of my comfort zone)What would the consequences have been if Herbert Kingaby had got a competent lawyer and successfully argued in court in the 1910s that the retain and transfer system was an illegal restraint of trade rather than it being fine in itself but being used against him maliciously (which would therefore not be illegal)?
This post made me wonder how it could happen.Makes me wonder what things would be like if there was one football team seen as representative of "London".
This post made me wonder how it could happen.
I feel Arsenal are probably the best bets - say Norris gets away with merging Fulham in and takes the Stamford Bridge offer so Chelsea don't get founded.
Still leaves the various Southern League teams though, and it's not like they weren't usually the top London team historically either, without that happening. Maybe just an Arsenal/Fulham merger leading to using London in the name would be the way to change it? Idk.
EDIT: Huh, apparently Chapman did want them renamed London FC a bit later on. Hmmm.....
I think Tottenham are probably still going to be around, but then, Madrid does have Atletico as well.I think you could end up with a situation where you've got a 'London' team covering basically the old County of London but with teams like West Ham, Crystal Palace and the like still competitive in outer London.
First time they applied was to be emergency hosts in 1986 (and they got no votes).I'm thinking if there are ways to get football (more) popular in the US earlier than in OTL, when it happened around the US hosting the World Cup in 1994, which led to the subsequent founding of MLS. An earlier World Cup in the US would be the obvious path, but could one have been hosted in, say, the '60s or '70s?
I'm thinking if there are ways to get football (more) popular in the US earlier than in OTL, when it happened around the US hosting the World Cup in 1994, which led to the subsequent founding of MLS. An earlier World Cup in the US would be the obvious path, but could one have been hosted in, say, the '60s or '70s?
As long as NASL can be avoided completely or something else taking its place.
My impression is not that NASL was a bad idea by itself but that it expanded too quickly and quickly became financially unsustainable, unlike the decades-long process this has been in MLS.
How good would the Americans have been if they'd qualified for the World Cup in 2018 instead of Panama?
How would European football look like if the Champions League had kept being the European Cup, a straight knockout tournament featuring only the winners of every national championship?
Is there a way to make 2007-8 Derby County even worse?