Why the Trotters? There are a few theories my favourite of which is that the earlier format (20 a side) team that played in the 1830s/40s started off in a village called Turton, then moved nearer to town and then moved again as the game developed into the modern format, eventually becoming professional (although they always made money from the bookies and the heavy gambling and drinking that went on according to newspaper reports) and "trotting off" was a colloquial term for moving around.
Or they ate pig's feet - nobody knows.

Feel a bit more comfortable now that captain Santos has recovered from injury so the back 3 might not be too shaky.