Can you work out which club is being described in the clues? All answers relate to current Step 5 teams (2019-20 season).
- Originally, we were known as Axwell Park Colliery Welfare and played in the Derwent Valley League. Our golden era was in the late 70s and early 80s when we won the Wearside League and won the FA Vase in 1981. We now back in the Northern League Division One after two decades in Step 6.
- Founded by the Sikh community in 1991, we began life as a Sunday league team in the Walsall and District League. Our first team now play in the Midland Premier League and we also have a thriving women’s and junior set-up as well as being known for the quality of our Punjabi cuisine.
- We were founded in 1946, formed from the merger of Sudbury Rangers and the interestingly named Sudbury Ratepayers. David Seaman was once hired as our goalkeeping coach. Our ground was used as a training base by England during the 1966 World Cup.
- Formed in 1872, we were founder members of the Bristol & District League (now known as the Western League). Although we have played in several local leagues, we are back in the Western League these days. In the 2005-06 season we had former Bristol Rovers and Liverpool defender Nick Tanner as our manager.
- Founder members of the Bedfordshire FA, we can name all manner of famous players amongst our ranks including Jeff Astle, Kerry Dixon, and George Best (on loan). We were also the first club to be managed by Barry Fry, who also played for us in the early 1970’s. After seven seasons at Step 4 we are now back in the Spartan South Midlands League.
- Formed three years before the end of the 19th Century, we were founder member so the Norfolk & Suffolk Senior League, which we went on to win three times. We currently play in the Eastern Counties League Premier Division. Known as The Bloaters we play our games in front of a superb Victorian grandstand that attracts groundhoppers from all over the country.
- Not many teams can claim a future Prime Minister amongst their list of former players. However, this club, currently in the Wessex Premier League, can boast Clement Atlee as a former player, albeit well before he became leader of the country.
- Another Midland Premier League side. This team’s former player and manager list is almost a who’s who of football. On the player side there is David Nish, Ernie Moss, Terry Hennessey, Julian Joachim and Jeff Blockley amongst others. Martin O’Neill was manager of the side in 1989.
- This club has two nicknames, the lesser known of the two being The Trickies. Although they now play in the North West Counties Premier League, they can boast that they were founder members of the English Second Division in 1892. They can also lay claim to a European Cup winner in their ranks when Bruce Grobbelaar played one game for the club in 1999
- This Northamptonshire club, although originally formed in 1867 resigned from the league in 2002 but were resurrected when a group of friends decided to get the club going again. They put together a team of people, including Snooker World Champion Peter Ebdon (who now has a stand named after him) and started again in local football, regaining their Step 5 status in 2006.
Answers: 1. Whickham FC, 2. Sporting Khalsa, 3. Wembley FC, 4. Roman Glass St George, 5. Dunstable Town, 6. Great Yarmouth Town, 7. Fleet Town, 8. Shepshed Dynamo, 9. Northwich Victoria, 10. Wellingborough Town