Inter-cities Cup

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The Serious Guy

The Serious Guy

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As I was casually wandering through the pages of Wikipedia, I stumbled upon the old Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. In the inaugural season, (1955-58) London was represented by London XI, as opposed to a singular London team (as in the case of Birmingham City and Barcelona), which got me wondering, although highly (!) unlikely, would there be a market for perhaps a charity mini-league, where the best XI from each city/area played against each other for the whatever cup?

For example, you could have:

Manchester (Utd/City)
Liverpool (Pool/Everton)
North London (Spurs/Arsenal)
East London (West Ham/Leyton Orient)
South London (Milwall/Charlton/Palace)
Birmingham (Villa/Birmingham)
West London (Fulham/Chelsea/QPR)
South Wales (Cardiff/Swansea)
East Anglia (Norwich/Ipswich)
Yorkshire (Hull/Leeds/Huddersfield/Bansley)
Tyneside (Sunderland/Newcastle)

You get the picture? It could be a one off event with minimal matches (5 in a group, 4 matches, winner of each group go into a final). Would provide a temporary respite for fans at war with each other, a little bit of unity etc. and a nice tournament for us to sink our teeth into. Thoughts?
 
The Sundance Yid said:
East London (West Ham/Milwall/Charlton)
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Millwall and Charlton are South London, along with Palace.

Maybe go one step further with Yorkshire:
South Yorkshire (Sheffield Wednesday, Sheffield United, Doncaster, Barnsley)
West Yorkshire (Leeds, Huddersfield, Bradford)
North Yorkshire (Middlesbrough, York)
Greater Manchester (Wigan, Bolton, Oldham, Stockport, Rochdale)
Lancashire (Blackburn, Burnley, Blackpool, Preston)
Irritating Bit of the Midlands (Derby, Forest, Notts county)
 
I remember going to Stamford Bridge to watch a London v. game.Didn't like it much.But then being at Stamford Bridge in those days was like being alone in a desert.Miserable place!
 
"Gooner LB" before Benny? How has someone who isn't even worthy of knowing their name in the team before 1 of the best LBs in the league?
 
spurfectionist said:
"Gooner LB" before Benny? How has someone who isn't even worthy of knowing their name in the team before 1 of the best LBs in the league?
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<laugh>

Also no RVP? If you're going to include Luka then you've got to let Robin stay surely.

VdV is also crap on the right, would rather have Lennon/Oxocube.
 
Wandering Yid said:
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Also no RVP? If you're going to include Luka then you've got to let Robin stay surely.

VdV is also crap on the right, would rather have Lennon/Oxocube.
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Ade and RVP together! Then watch them scrap while the ball is down the other end.
 
Wandering Yid said:
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Also no RVP? If you're going to include Luka then you've got to let Robin stay surely.

VdV is also crap on the right, would rather have Lennon/Oxocube.
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Haha, yeh fair enough. VP as striker then.

Can't remember the lb's name and i'm busy at worl so couldn't look him up.
He was very good in their run in though when they closed us down. I like benny, but he isn't as good going forwards people make out, and has a mistake in him maybe 1 in 2 games.
 
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