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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 2:58 pm
by Weyland
A football question then, as a relief from all that.
What was Manchester United's original name? This is probably easy, so I want the
exact name.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:01 pm
by harry 3
Newton Heath
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:06 pm
by Weyland
I said the
exact name.
They became Newton Heath in 1893, but they were founded in 1878 under a slightly different name.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:16 pm
by Istenem
is it the newton heath boys?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:22 pm
by Weyland
Nope. It has to do with what they were formed as.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:26 pm
by harry 3
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Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:38 pm
by Weyland
Nearer the future Piccadilly railway station than the canal. And that
is a clue.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:58 pm
by Istenem
i know they played in green and yellow halves.
how about newton heath railwaymen?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:22 pm
by Weyland
I think that's as close as anyone's going to get. And you did get the shirt colours correct.
I was after Newton Heath L&YR F.C., the L&YR standing for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, as they were formed as the works team of the depot at Newton Heath.
When they thought about renaming themselves after avoiding bankcrupcy in 1902, they found that Manchester City had got there first in 1894.
So, after rejecting Manchester Central and Manchester Celtic, Louis Rocca, a young immigrant from Italy, said "Gentlemen, why don't we call ourselves Manchester United?" And the rest is history etc.
And of course, Newton Heath was one of the names put forward for the new club that eventually end up as Football Club United of Manchester.
Over to you UP.
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 5:35 pm
by Istenem
merci bien Weyland, all those winks, are you coming on to me
ops:
tee-hee
anyway. this will be easy if anyone happens to know it but:
what were the ingredients of (h)umble(s) pie?
Posted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 6:09 pm
by Northern Monkey
Some sort of offal- intestines?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:21 am
by Istenem
it is some sort of offal. but which beastie?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:39 am
by Cardinal Sin
Pigs?
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:03 am
by Weyland
Sheep?
unknownpseudonym wrote:merci bien Weyland, all those winks, are you coming on to me
ops:
tee-hee
I just had something in my eye.
Posted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:24 am
by Istenem
nope and nope, when i went to the butchers the other day pork was cheap and so was lamb but ... was deer.