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[Clevers]

David Platt and David Beckham are the only English players to have achieved this feat. What is it?

Have both had rare types of dung beetle named after them?

That fact would sound more likely if you had left out the word "beetle"

 

[The Pink Panther]

Great post this. It could run and run.

One that always gets a good debate in the pub is, name the original 12 clubs in the football league in 1888/89.

No Googling.

Notts County
Preston NE
Waterloo

 

[raglanblue]

exeter-city. for the first question.

 

[DontLookBackInAnger]

exeter-city. for the first question.

It's Plymouth mate.

 

[Corky]

Tokyo hands down.

 

[Mikem93]

Great post this. It could run and run.

One that always gets a good debate in the pub is, name the original 12 clubs in the football league in 1888/89.

No Googling.

Notts County
Preston NE
Waterloo

Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton, Wolves, Stoke, Everton and Derby that i can remember

 

[Warwickhunt]

Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton , Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke, West Brom and Wolves.

 

[The Pink Panther]

Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton , Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke, West Brom and Wolves.

All in alphabetical order. Googled per chance?

 

[1_barry_conlon]

Why all the talk about Wakefield, i thought this was about Cities? or has it changed from being a town and i've slept through it?

 

[Warwickhunt]

Accrington, Aston Villa, Blackburn, Bolton , Burnley, Derby County, Everton, Notts County, Preston North End, Stoke, West Brom and Wolves.

All in alphabetical order. Googled per chance?

nope, my encyclopedia of english football, had it since 1976, not 76, 79.

i was stuck for the last 2, i thought it would have been old etonians and the wanderers but it wasn't, it was accrington and stoke.