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Have we ever played a season with both Brizzles and Reading in the same league.

Cant be arsed to find out meself and my memory is shite

Not including Scum as they are pretty fresh out of the Southern League

http://www.rsssf.com/engpaul/fla/1922-23.html

May have happened again after but not checked....for many years we were in the same league....Bristol City being the exception....this season on the link they went up also meaning again all the teams were not together.........hope you get my meaning!

Christ, I never knew teams like Aberdare and Merthyr were ever in the League

I'm not ashamed to say I had never even heard of Nelson, the place or the football team that topped League Division 3 (North) in 1922/23.  Quite a downturn in fortunes when compared to some of the familiar names that finished below them.

 
Yep...but watching them was the pits :D

Edit,,,,,all the following league tables follow at the bottom of the link if you want to check your original question in more modern times.

It's the first time I've heard of Aberdare

And Gateshead were in the same league as Man Utd!!

Aberdare the Town is little bigger than Highworth...though in those days thousands worked in the pits in local areas to it.
If you ever get the chance when in Wales drive there on the old road in.......great fun in the lorry on narrow hills leading into the small high street.

Aber is Welsh(gaelic) for river by the way....so you have Abergavenny,Aberavon etc.....Ponty is Gaelic for bridge...so you have Pontypool etc.
Ponte fract in England literally means old gaelic for fractured bridge....Ponte fract.

I somehow thing that's unlikely Lee  ;)

Give me your number...i can strap you in the passenger seat.

Doesn't he put fires out on Oil rigs

which route is that?

2000-2001

Kingy's first spell in charge of the club

Take the A470 coming off the M4 South Wales...juction 32(i think ( signed Merthre Tydfill....continue on this for about 15 miles untill you see the sign for Caergwa and Aberdare....this road is the A4059 and will lead you past Cymbach and into Aberdare......if you continue out of Aberdare this will lead you to Hirwaun one of South Wales high spots and old Big Coal pit(Museum there now)
You end up on Head of the Valleys road and this road has a great drive all the way down to Swansea...its like a scenic route to Swansea if you like....Swansea being Abertawe to the locals of course.

You can see the route on this link moving the Google North,South East or West.

http://www.aboutbritain.com/maps/aberdare-map.asp

Bloddy hell. You're right - and a full house with Scum as well.

I would have had a ST for that season - God my mind's gone to shit

ah right, I drove back from Pembrokeshire on the A465, very scenic

Lived in Pontypridd for 3 years while at the Polytechnic of Wales, and got my ankle broken in a friendly match at Aberdare.

Sorry to be pedantic but Afon is river - Aber usually means a river mouth or confluence

I stand corrected :-[

Said the man in orthopaedic shoes

While we're doing pedantry...Welsh isn't a gaelic language. It's what's known as a brythonic celtic language, similar to Breton and Cornish.  Gaelic or goidetic languages are Scottish, Irish and Manx. That's all, until some cunt comes along and picks holes in that.

 :D

Continuing the Welsh Language theme, Caer is 'castle' or 'fort'. So Cardiff is 'Caerdydd', which is 'Castle on the Taff'.

I honestly find the way places are named fascinating. I'm a proponent of everyone throughout history having a similar sense of humour/laziness/desire to be remembered- so towns being named after great leaders, or ways of saying 'the church on the hill next to the river' etc. that have, through the ages, slowly combined into one word because people are lazy feckers and don't want to expend 10 syallbles when 3 or 4 would do.

There are at least a couple on of places in Norway simply called Å.

How do you pronounce that?

I think the nearest you'd get in English is something like 'or'.  I went to one of those places, which was the very last place at the end of the Lofoten Island chain.  If there's a more remote place in Europe, I'd like to hear where
  Really did feel like the end of the earth...which is very apt because the reason they named it that way is that 'A' (with the circle thing over it) is officially the last letter of the Norwegian alphabet.  Stayed in a rorbuer.  No description I could give would do it justice.  You'd have to look it up.

as Ardiles said, it's close to 'or' but with a soft r sound.

the place name comes from old Norse for small river or stream.

My Norwegian mate told me that I pronounced Norwegian words in a Finnish accent. Should I be happy with that?

Fitte is a great word.

Finnish is a very different language to any of the three Scandinavian languages, so not sure what he means.

Fitte is a word you never hear, much more taboo than cunt.