World’s Oldest Football League Club Tag

[SwalePie]

Add this:

"English club Notts County, which has existed informally from 1862, is the world's oldest fully professional association football club".

That's my preferred label too. This 'Oldest League Club' is a bit weird isn't it? Does anyone know why we use it instead of the former - is there an older pro club?

[countygump]

That's my preferred label too. This 'Oldest League Club' is a bit weird isn't it? Does anyone know why we use it instead of the former - is there an older pro club?

No, that's why we're called the oldest league club in the world.



Not many people know this, but at one time we were called 'Notts Coui', pronounced Cowee. I have proof!!!





Now we're called 'Notts Cowards'.

[SwalePie]

No, that's why we're called the oldest league club in the world.

That's my whole point gumpy - this is not as impressive as 'World's Oldest Professional FC'

[pravda_plc]

That's my whole point gumpy - this is not as impressive as 'World's Oldest Professional FC'

At the risk of offending the traditionalists, i've never understood the importance of this moniker of being the oldest-whatever-club.

I've got some extremely old gardening shoes, that belonged to my great-grandfather, (maybe the oldest in the UK) but surprisingly they have no value whatsoever.

If being the oldest-whatever-club is the major selling point for NCFC, i'm not surprised that we find ourselves, up to our necks in the brown stuff...

[SwalePie]

At the risk of offending the traditionalists, i've never understood the importance of this moniker of being the oldest-whatever-club.

I've got some extremely old gardening shoes, that belonged to my great-grandfather, (maybe the oldest in the UK) but surprisingly they have no value whatsoever.

If being the oldest-whatever-club is the major selling point for NCFC, i'm not surprised that we find ourselves, up to our necks in the brown stuff...

I do see your point but it's our only USP, so definitely worth cherishing methinks, from both a pride and a marketing perspective, even though it doesn't actually make a jot of difference on the pitch.

[Mark_Ross]

I remember that (ML) stand! Bloody hell it would never get past H&S these days!

[51Magpie]

I remember that (ML) stand! Bloody hell it would never get past H&S these days!

Me too. I remember the unnerving way it used to shudder when people started stamping their feet as a form of applause. I also remember seeing loads of lit cigarette ends disappearing through the gaps between the floorboards. It's a wonder we didn't have a disastrous fire before the one in Bradford.

[60YearsAPie]

I also remember seeing loads of lit cigarette ends disappearing through the gaps between the floorboards. It's a wonder we didn't have a disastrous fire before the one in Bradford.

Same thing used to happen in the old Main Stand. They'd drop their fag on the floor and before they could put their foot on it to put the fag out, it had gone down the gap. (Must admit it happened to me on more than one occasion).

[SwalePie]

Me too. I remember the unnerving way it used to shudder when people started stamping their feet as a form of applause. I also remember seeing loads of lit cigarette ends disappearing through the gaps between the floorboards. It's a wonder we didn't have a disastrous fire before the one in Bradford.

I used to love the simultaneous stamping and clapping to 'County! Clap, clap, clap' which ended with the wooden stands' departure of course. Do you remember the fire scare in the Main Stand not long after the Bradford fire? I remember us evacuating the stand rapidly onto the pitch.



https://www.pne-online.net/forum/for...and-evacuated=

Love the comment from 'Gordon Bennett' on that thread

[Bohinen]

That's my preferred label too. This 'Oldest League Club' is a bit weird isn't it? Does anyone know why we use it instead of the former - is there an older pro club?

But that's the title I grew up with. It even said it on the back of one of those football cards you got back around 1970, you know, the ones with the gum in the pack. The players had long beards in the drawing that went with it.