Queen Victoria, King Olav and the bizarre twist for Cromer FC

[madras]

and a big well done to durham city fc. until yesterday their stats read.......

 

 

p  w  d  l    gf        ga  pts

28  0  0  28  16      137    0

 

 

but yesterday they went and beat the famous fc united of manchester, away from home aswell, 2-1.

 

the great escape is on.

[madras]

in argentina there is a deportivo MORON.....is that some crosses of st george on their stand. morons ?, england ? did they see the connection before we did ?

 

http://uk.soccerway.com/teams/argentina/club-deportivo-moron/venue/

 

 

[Fugazi]

This thread has confused the hell out of me, pretty much each post is completely random.

[Rob W]

it's the Board - not the thread dear boy

[Fugazi]

I'm even more confused now.

[madras]

wouldn't it be good if santa claus fc (finland) could play joe public fc (trinidad....one of kenwynne jones's ex clubs) ?

[Kaizero]

It would be rather good.

[madras]

however, as much as i don't have a second team i think i've found who i'd support if i had one........XI Men in flight (from swaziland).

[Disco]

Not the Mighty Blackpool FC of Sierra Leone named after Stanley Matthews?

 

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f4/Mighty_Blackpool.jpg/130px-Mighty_Blackpool.jpg

[madras]

surely if they were named after stanley matthews they'd be called stanley matthews fc ?

[Kaizero]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyalfamily/9020444/Football-club-faces-eviction-due-to-death-of-King-Edward-VIIs-last-grandchild.html

 

Football club faces eviction due to death of King Edward VII's last grandchild

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02111/Cromer_2111608b.jpg

A town football club faces eviction from its ground under an eccentric clause which stated the lease would expire 21 years after death of King Edward VII's last grandchild.

 

Cromer Town FC, in Norfolk, has played at Cabbell Park for 90 years after the land was given in recognition of the sacrifices made by the population in the First World War.

 

However, the wealthy local woman who bequeathed the ground to the club in 1922 included a condition which said the land should pass back to the town 21 years after the death of King Edward's last grandchild, who became King Olav V of Norway.

 

The deadline, which passed yesterday, has proven controversial and the debate over the club’s future is far from settled.

 

A majority of the council want the club, which can trace its history back to 1898, to relocate to a new site on the outskirts of town, where youth team facilities could be incorporated.

 

Under that plan, Cabbell Park could then be redeveloped to extend a school, relocate a doctors’ surgery and build new housing.

 

However, the club believes a move out of the town would increase costs and cut the income it earns from regular car boot sales - and it believes it might have found itself a stay of execution.

 

Its lawyers argue that a strict interpretation of the terms made by Evelyn Bond Cabbell, the club’s benefactor, could provide it with another two decades at the ground.

 

The key clause stipulates that the 21-year limit should run from the day of the death of the last descendent who was “in being” at the time it was signed.

 

The club’s lawyers point out that the 7th Earl of Harewood, George Lascelles, had been conceived and was a few months from birth at that stage and therefore, they argue, can be considered to be “in being”.

 

Lord Harewood, a cousin of the Queen, died aged 88 in July last year, which, according to the club’s argument, means the lease should run for a further 20 years.

 

The lifeline was discovered by the newly-elected Cromer mayor, councillor Greg Hayman.

 

Coun Hayman unearthed the link through Burke's Peerage, the reference book on aristocratic families, but he said it still needed to be tested in law.

 

He said: “The football club is not happy with the arrangements to move out of town. We will bring a motion to fight to keep the club in Cromer.

 

"I believe that land belongs to Cromer, not the district council, and we should assert our right over it to keep Cromer Town fooball club in Cromer, not move it to another parish at Roughton, which would be detrimental to its long history in the town."

 

The fact that the land was a lease and not a gift was only discovered in 2009, leading to the ongoing negotiations.

 

The matter was further complicated when North Norfolk District Council said its experts believed the ground should revert to its control rather than the town’s, under the conditions of a reorganisation of local government in 1974.

 

Paul Jarvis, Cromer Town FC's chairman, said "Our barrister's opinion is that we still have another 20-odd years to run on the trust. Another legal opinion is being obtained, which slightly differs on that."

 

Mr Jarvis said the supposed deadline would have “no immediate effect” on the club, which is currently at the top of the Anglian Combination Premier Division.

 

King Olav, a popular monarch who won a gold medal in sailing at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics, was born in Sandringham in 1903 and died on January 17, 1991.

 

Lord Harewood was an opera enthusiast who served as a captain in the Grenadier Guards in the Second World War and, after his incarceration at Colditz, had his death warrant signed by Hitler only for it to be ignored by the commandant, who released him to the Swiss.

[madras]

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[madras]

however, as much as i don't have a second team i think i've found who i'd support if i had one........XI Men in flight (from swaziland).

XI Men in flight could have a challenger for my affections. Boo FK of Sweden, and if that wasn't good enough they play in the town of Nacka.