Maybe not Yankee cash but they got a ****load from somewhere. I was in their stadium the end of last season. They came from 2 nil down and deservedly won in the last minutes. They beat Swanage I think. They were winning the playoff final till something like the 87th minute but lost to Notts in extra time. Horrible place but wonderful new ground that must have been built for them by someone........maybe council involved but definitely sugar daddy somewhere!
I believe their new stadium was financed in 2009 by the council (£13m) but they got some funding of £2.5m from the Football Foundation and East Midland Development Agency.
Brentford with 31 attempts on goal at home against manure. That's as many as we've had at home all season.
I was at Bournemouth v Everton yesterday. Deserved win for Cherries against, as you would expect, a rufty tufty Dyche side. Bloody hell did Everton have a tall side. 8 players over 6ft, some well over. They subbed off one giant and brought on an even bigger one. The guy next to me asked if we were playing football or basketball. Yet Bournemouth score from 2 crosses. Best player for me was the winger/striker Bournemouth bought off the Wurzels, Semenyo. They played him out wide and he caused Everton all sorts of problems. We have his younger brother in our under 21's, maybe a lower age grade. If he is anything as good as his elder brother we will have a player.
Well I never knew that! ABERDARE is one of only six Welsh clubs ever to have competed in the English Football League. The club, known as Aberdare Athletic, joins the ranks of Cardiff City, Swansea City, Newport County, Wrexham and Merthyr Town. They spent six years in the League during the 1920s, but were replaced by Torquay United in 1926-27 after finishing bottom of the Third Division South. Their best season was 1921-22, when they finished eighth. Founded in 1893, the club played at the Athletic Ground, also known as the Ynys Stadium.
I read about that when I started reading football annuals as a youngster. Interesting article here https://theballisround.co.uk/2012/09/14/gone-and-forgotten-aberdare-athletic-fc/ As for Merthyr their claim to fame was their European games in 1987 after beating Newport in a replay at Ninian Park https://www.walesonline.co.uk/whats-on/film-news/merthyr-football-european-spotlight-video-11009665
