WESSEX SOCCER CLUBS
WESSEX TOURIST BOARD
List of Interesting
Sites
Aldershot
Town
League Division 2
Aldershot Town Football Club was founded in the spring
of
1992 just after the closure of debt ridden fourth division club
Aldershot
F.C., who had been founded in 1925 and had been league members since
1932.
Like the old club, the new Aldershot football club played its home
games
at the Recreation Ground in Aldershot town centre.They joined the Ryman
(Diadora)
League Division Three for the 1992-93 season, and at the end of 1997-98
won
promotion to the Premier Division of the league. Two years later they
finished
runners-up in the Premier Division and just missed out on a place in
the Nationwide
Conference, but achieved this success at Ryman Premier Division
champions
at the end of the 2002-03 season. In 2003-04 Aldershot Town qualified
for
the Conference National promotion playoffs but lost on penalties to
Shrewsbury
Town in the final. The following year they lost in the semi-final to
Carlisle
United.
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The
Recreation
Ground, High Street,
Aldershot, Hampshire, GU11 1TW
ALDERSHOT TOWN CLICK
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Tel:
01252
320211
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 Bristol City Football Club - The
Robins
Championship
1894:
Bristol South End Football Club are formed and play their games at St.
John's
Lane, Bedminster
1897:
The club is renamed Bristol City Football Club and made into a limited
company
after a famous meeting in the Albert Hall, Bedminster. A decision was
made
to employ a manager, so contact was made with Sam Hollis at Woolwich
Arsenal.
One of his first assignments at Bristol City was to assemble a squad of
players
to take part in the Southern League - he was given a trans fer
fund of £40!
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Bristol
City Football Club
Ashton Gate Stadium
Ashton Road
Bristol
BS3 2EJ
BRISTOL
CITY
FOOTBALL CLUB CLICK
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Tel:
0117 963 0630
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 Bristol Rovers Football Club - The Pirates
League Division 1
The
Memorial Stadium has been owned by Bristol Rovers since 1998, when it
was
purchased from the old Bristol Rugby Club, who were in administration
at
the time. Founded in 1998 they have been members of the Football League
since
1920, having won the Southern League in 1904/05.
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Bristol
Rovers Football Club
The Memorial Stadium
Filton Avenue, Horfield
Bristol, BS7 0BF
BRISTOL ROVERS CLICK
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tel:
0117 9096648
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 AFC
Bournemouth - The Cherries
League Division 2
The present football club can trace
its
roots as far back as 1890 when Boscombe St. Johns Institute Football
Club
were playing in local football. They disbanded in 1899 and from the
remains
of that club, Boscombe FC were formed at a meeting under the
streetlights
in Gladstone Road, Boscombe. The Club competed in the Bournemouth and
District
Junior League playing at a ground in Castlemain Avenue, Pokesdown. They
moved
to Kings Park, adjacent to the current stadium in 1902 and were soon
emerging
as the top team in the town. After enjoying many local successes, they
joined
the Hampshire League and were attracting large crowds. In 1910 they
moved
to their own ground, named Dean Court the club continued to
thrive
and dominated the local football scene. The club signed their first
professional player in 1910, B.Penton, who signed from Southampton for
a £10 fee. The club then moved in to the South Eastern League but
this proved to be
a big leap and the side finished bottom of the table. With the outbreak
of
war in 1914, the progress of the club was halted and they returned to
the
Hampshire league in 1919. The club was ambitious and when the Third
Division
was formed in 1920, they moved up to the highly competitive Southern
League
as many clubs in that league went on to form the Third Division. After
three
years in the Southern League, the club applied for membership of the
Football
League. The application was accepted and Boscombe would be playing in
the
Third Division (South) in the 1923-24 season.
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Fitness First Stadium,Dean
Court
Road,
Bournmouth, Dorset. B9 4NH
AFC
BOURNEMOUTH
CLICK
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Tel:
01202 726357 |
 Cheltenham
Town - The Robins
League Division 2
Until very
recently
it was thought that Cheltenham Town Football Club was founded in 1892.
However,
recent evidence points to the origins being five years earlier when Mr
Albert
Close White returned to his native Cheltenham from college in London to
take
up a teaching post. While away on his studies Mr White discovered the
game
of association football and he is now credited with being the first
person
to introduce the sport to the town of Cheltenham. Trials were held at
the East Glos Cricket Ground in 1887 and the club was born.
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Whaddon
Road, Cheltenham. GL52 5NA
ctfc Whaddon Road
Cheltenham GL52 5NA
m CHELTENHAM
TOWN CLICK |
Tel:
01242 573558. |
Exeter
Town
League Division 1
Formed
in 1904, The Grecians moved to St James’s Park in 1906, where they
still play to this day. They have had a host of players playing for
them, who have moved on to play at the highest level including Lee
Sharpe, Cliff Bastin and Dick Pym, who all got caps for England.They were also
in the news in 2002-03 when Uri Geller became Honrary Co-Chairman. He
went
on to appoint Music King Michael Jackson and Star Wars Legend David
Prowse as honorary Directors. Since this however the running of the
club has been taken over by a supporters’ trust. Their biggest game of recent times was against
Manchester United in Dec 2004, and they caused a huge surprise by
holding United to a 0-0 draw.
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St James Park,
St James Road
Exeter Devon EX4 6PX
EXETER
TOWN
FC CLICK
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tel::
01392 411 243
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Forest Green
Rovers Football Club
Conference
Forest Green Rovers were
Founder
members of the Gloucestershire County League in 1968-69 season, where
the enjoyed 7 years of football, before joining the Hellenic League
Premier Division.
They went on to become champions of this league in 1981, getting
promoted
to the Southern League Midland Division and also doing the double by
winning
the FA Vase also. In 1989, the club changed it’s name to Stroud,
however
this was short lived and was changed back to Forest Green Rovers in
1992.
In 1995, Rovers switched to play in the Southern Division, and won the
league
in the 96/97 season – in turn winning promotion to the Premier
Division.
Rovers didn’t stop there and went on to win the Southern League Premier
Division
in the debut season, earning promotion to the Conference league. They
have
since come runners up in the FA Trophy in 1999 losing narrowly to
Kingstonian
1-0 in the final. Also came runners up in 2001 again losing 1-0 but
this
time to Canvey Island.
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The Lawn, Nympsfield Road,
Forest Green, Nailsworth,
Gloucestershire, GL6 0ET
FOREST
GREEN FC CLICK |
Tel: 01453 834860
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 Oxford United- The U's
Conference
Along
with many other clubs who eventually achieved league status, we started
in
1893 as an amateur club, called Headington United, a village team known
locally
as "the boys from up the hill".After the Second World War we were still
a
tiny set up playing in the Spartan League. But in 1949 the club was
elected to the Southern League and became a professional unit.By 1953
the side had
won the first of its Southern League Championships and in 1954 reached
the
Fourth Round of the FA Cup beating League clubs Millwall and Stockport
County
before losing 4-2 to Bolton Wanderers.
The appointment of the former Birmingham City manager Arthur Turner as
manager
in 1959 was another turning point in the club's history. And in 1960,
to
increase appeal to the whole city and increase national recognition,
the
club name was changed to Oxford United.Turner guided United to two more
Southern
League titles and when Accrington Stanley folded in 1962, Oxford United
was
elected to the Fourth Division of the Football League.
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Kassam Stadium,
Grenoble Rd, Oxford. OX4 4XP
OXFORD UNITED FC CLICK
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Tel:
01865 337533, |
 Plymouth
Argyle - The Pilgrims
Championship
AT the turn of the
last
century of the old millennium, F Howard Grose and W Pethybridge, both
former
pupils of Dunheved College in Launceston, Cornwall, shared rooms in the
newly-built
Argyll Terrace (sometimes known as Argyle Terrace) while working in
Plymouth.The
two men wanted to pursue their interest in football and it was
suggested
that it might be possible to form a new club by inviting old boys from
local
public schools to form a team. In those days, public schools and the
services
were the spawning-grounds of footballers The name Argyll
itself
derives from the Gaelic Earraghaidheal meaning "the boundary of the
Gaels".
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Home Park. Plymouth,
Devon. PL2
3DQ
PLYMOUTH ARGYLE FC
CLICK
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Tel:
0845 338 7232
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 Portsmouth- Pompey
Premiership
Here
you
will see Premiership Football and hear the famous Pompey Chimes. Twice
champions in the 1940's they are now back in the big time
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Fratton
Park, Frogmore Road,
Portsmouth, Hants, PO4 8RA
PORTSMOUTH
FOOTBALL
CLUB CLICK
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Tel
023 9273 1204
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 Reading - The Royals
Championship
Reading Football
Club
was formed in 1871, when the inaugural meeting of the club was held at
the
Bridge Street Rooms under the chairmanship of Mr JE Sydenham, who later
became
the first Honorary Secretary of the club. The early
matches were
played at Reading Recreation Ground, and the club later fulfilled its
fixtures
at Reading Cricket Ground, Coley Park and Caversham Cricket Ground
before
moving to Elm Park on 5th September 1896 and then to the Madejski
Stadium
in 1998.
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Bennet
Road, Reading,
Berkshire. RG2 0FL
READING
FOOTBALL CLUB CLICK |
Tel:
0870 999 1871 |
 Southampton- The Saints
League Division 1
In
2001 the move from the Dell to the new Friends Provident St Mary’s
Stadium
was something of a spiritual homecoming for Southampton Football Club.
The
team that play in red and white today can trace their roots back to the
club
formed in 1885 by members of St. Mary's Church Young Men's association
who
played their football on the banks of the Itchen for 13 years before
moving
on. Unfortunately the team they were relegated to the Championship in
2005.
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Southampton
FC,
Friends Provident St. Mary's Stadium,
Britannia Road,
Southampton,
SO14 5FP
SOUTHAMPTON
FOOTBALL
CLUB CLICK
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Tel
0870-2200 000
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 Swindon Town - The Robins
League Division 1
In 1894 Swindon Town football
Club,
founded by Rev. Williams Pitt, took on professionals and became a
founder
member of the Southern League Division One..
Swindon Town moved into the Football League Div 3 (S) in
1920
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County Ground
Swindon SN1 2ED
SWINDON TOWN
FOOTBALL CLUB CLICK
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Tel: 0870 443 1969
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 Torquay
United - The
Gulls
League
Division 2
The
history
of Torquay United doesn't begin with just one club; it begins with
three:
Torquay United, Ellacombe and Babbacombe. The merging of these three
clubs
is covered in The History Of Plainmoor elsewhere on this site, and it
is
a great story - a great story indeed. As
Torquay
Town, the club shared Plainmoor with their local rivals Babbacombe, and
for
the seasons running up to the beginning of the First World War, both
clubs
played in the Plymouth and District League
Pressure
began to mount in favour of Torquay Town and Babbacombe coming together.Torquay
Town and Babbacombe finally became Torquay United in 1921, and the new
club
joined the Western League .United
played four seasons in the Western League (finishing in sixth,
fourth, fifteenth
and sixth places respectively). In
1927,
after being crowned champions at the end of their fifth season in
the
Western League, the club decided to try for Football League status a
second
time.
They were elected to Division Three (South) of the Football League,
taking
the place of Welsh club Aberdare.
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Plainmoor, Torquay, Devon.
TQ1
6PS
TORQUAY UNITED
FOOTBALL
CLUB CLICK |
Tel:
01803 328666 |
 Yeovil Town- The Glovers
League Division 1
Looking
back
at Yeovil's past is like delving into the annals of FA Cup
giant-killing.When
the cult football game 'subbuteo' launched their one-and-only
non-league team,
it was Yeovil they chose.Certainly the magnificent Huish Park Stadium,
opened
ten years ago, is a far cry from the club's beginning back in
1895.Formed
as the Yeovil Casuals, it was another twenty-five years before a merger
took
place with Petters United and the 'new'club moved to Huish.Season
2002/2003
has seen the club finally achieve it's ambitions of League football
when they
swept to the Conference Championship by a record 17 points.Season
2004-2005
The Glovers were crowned Champions for the second time in three seasons.
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Huish Park.Lufton Way,
Yeovil, Somerset. BA22 8YF
YEOVIL TOWN FC CLICK |
Tel:
01935
423662
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The Premier
League
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Arsenal F.C.
Manager:
Arsene Wenger
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The Gunners |
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60,000 |
Arsenal
- Emirates Stadium,
Ashburton Grove, ,London. N5 1BU
Telephone
No: 0207 619 5003
Fax No: 0207 704 4001
Ticket Office: 0207 619 5000
24 Hour Ticket Info: 0207 704 4242
Stadium Tours: 0207 619 5000
Fixture List
2008/9
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www.arsenal
.com |
Aston Villa
F.C.
Manager: Martin O'Neil
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The
Villans |
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43,000 |
Aston
Villa - Villa Park
Trinity
Road Birmingham. B6 6HE
Main
Telephone No: 0121 327 2299
Main Fax No: 0121 322 2107
Ticket Office: 0800
612 0970
Ticket Office Fax: 0800 612 0977
Stadium Tours: 0800 612 0970
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.avfc
.co.uk |
Blackburn
Rovers F.C.
Manager:
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Rovers |
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31,367 |
Blackburn
Rovers - Ewood Park ,
Blackburn,
Lancashire. BB2 4JF
Main
Telephone No: 0871 702 1875
Fax No: 01254 671 042
Ticket Office: 0871
222 1444
Fixture List
2008/9
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www.rovers.
co.uk |
Bolton
Wanderers
Manager: Gary Megson
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The Trotters |
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28,000 |
Bolton
Wanderers - Reebok Stadium
Burnden Way, Lostock,
Bolton, Lancashire. SE7 8BL
Main
Telephone No: 01204 673 673
Main Fax No: 01204 673 773
Ticket Office: 0871 871 2932
Ticket Office Fax: 0871 871 8183
Stadium Tours: 01204 673 650
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.bwfc.
co.uk |
Chelsea F.C.
Manager: Carlo Ancellotti
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The Blues |
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42,440 |
Chelsea
- Stamford Bridge
Fulham Road, London. SW16 1HS
Main Telephone
No: 0871 984 1955
Fax No: 020 7381 4831
Ticket Office: 0871 984 1905
(Outside
UK: 00 44 207 915 2900)
Stadium Tours: 0871 984 1955
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.chelseafc.
co.uk |
Everton F.C.
Manager: David Moyes
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The
Toffees |
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40,170 |
Everton
- Goodison Park
Goodison
Road, Liverpool. L4 4EL
Main
Telephone No: 0870 442 1878
Fax No: 0151 286 9112
Ticket Office: 0870 442 1878
Ground Tours: 0151 330 2305
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.evertonfc.tv |
Fulham F.C.
Manager: Roy Hodgson
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The Cottagers |
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19,250 |
Fulham
- Craven Cottage
Stevenage Road,
Fulham, London. SW6 6HH
Main
Telephone No: 0870 442 1222
Fax No: 0207 384 4715
Ticket Office: 0870
442 1234
Ticket Office Fax No: 0207
384 4810
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.fulhamfc.com
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Hull City
Manager: Phil Brown
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The Tigers |
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25,504
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Hull
City - Kingston Community Stadium
The Circle, Walton St, Hull, HU3 6HU
Main Telephone No:
0870 837 0003
Fax No: 01482 304 882
Ticket Office: 0870 837 0004
Ticket Office Fax: 01482 304 923
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.hullcityafc.net |
Liverpool
F.C.
Manager: Rafael Benitez
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The
Reds |
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45,400 |
Liverpool
- Anfield
Anfield
Road, Anfield, Liverpool. L4 0TH
Main
Telephone No: 0151-263-2361
Main Fax No: 0151-260-8813
Ticket Office: 0870-220-2345
Ticket Office Fax: 0151-261-1416
Ground Tours: 0151-260-6677
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.liverpoolfc.tv |
Manchester
City F.C.
Manager: Mark Hughes
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Blues |
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48,500 |
Manchester
City - City of Manchester Stadium
SportCity,
Manchester. M11 3FF
Main
Telephone No: 0870 062 1894
Main Fax No: 0161 438 7999
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.mcfc.co.uk |
Manchester
United F.C.
Manager: Sir Alec Ferguson
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The
Red
Devils |
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67,500 |
Manchester
Utd - Old Trafford
Sir Matt
Busby Way, Old Trafford, Manchester. M16 0RA
Main
Telephone No: 0870-442-1994
Fax No: 0161-868-8804
Ticket Office (Sales): 0870-442-1999
Ticket Office (Enquiries):
0870-442-1994
Stadium Tours: 0870-442-1994
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.manutd.com |
Middlesborough
Manager :Gordon Strachan
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Boro or Ironsiders |
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35,100 |
Middlesbrough
- Riverside Stadium
Middlesbrough,
Cleveland. TS3 6RS
Telephone
No: 0844 499 6789
Main Fax No: 01642 757 690
Ticket Office: 0844
499 1234
Ticket Office Fax: 01642
757 693
Stadium Tours: 0844
499 6789
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.mfc.co.uk |
FOR SALE!
Newcastle
United
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The
Magpies |
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52,219 |
Newcastle
Utd - St James' Park
Newcastle-Upon-Tyne. NE1 4ST
Main
Telephone No: 0191-201-8400
Fax No: 0191-201-8600
Ticket Office: 0191-261-1571
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.nufc.co.uk |
Portsmouth
F.C.
Manager: Paul Hart
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Pompey |
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19,400 |
Frogmore Road,
Southsea, Hampshire. PO4 8RA
Main
Telephone No: 02392 731204
Main Fax No: 02392 734129
Ticket Office: 0844
847 1898
Ticket Office Fax: 0871
230 1899
Fixture
List 2008/9
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www.pompeyfc.co.uk
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Stoke
City
Manager: Tony Pullis
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The
Potters
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28,383
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Stoke
City - The Britannia Stadium
Stanley Matthews Way,
Stoke On Trent, ST44EG
Main
Telephone
No: 01782-592-222
Main Fax No:
01782-592-221
Ticket Office: 0871-663-2007
Ticket Office Fax:
01782-592-201
Fixture
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Sunderland
Manager: Steve Bruce
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The Black Cats |
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49,000 |
, Sunderland,
SR5 1SU
Main Telephone Number: 0871 911 1200
Main Fax No: 0191 551 5123
Ticket Office: 0871
911 1973
Ticket Office Fax No: 0191 551 5150
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.safc.com |
Tottenham
Hotspur
Manager: Juande Ramos |
The Spurs |
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36,200 |
Tottenham
Hotspur - White Hart Lane
Bill Nicholson Way,
748 High Road, London, Middlesex.
N17 0AP
Main Telephone No: 0844 499 5000
Main Fax No: 020
8365 5005
Ticket Office:
0844 844 0102
Fixture
List 2008/9 |
www.spurs.co.uk |
West Bromwich Albion
Manager: Roberto Di Matteo
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The Baggies |
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28,003 |
Halfords Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands, B71
4LF
Main Telephone No: 0871 271 1100
Main
Fax No: 0871 271 9861
Ticket Office: 0871 271 9780
Ticket Office Fax
No: 0871 271
Fixtures List 2008/9
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www.wba.co.uk |
West Ham
United
Manager: Jean Franco Zola
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The Hammers |
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30,056 |
West
Ham Utd - Upton Park
, Green Street,
London. E13 9AZ
Main
Telephone No: 020 8548 2748
Fax No: 020 8548 2758
Ticket Office: 0870 112 2700
Fixture List 2008/9
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www.whufc.co.uk |
Wigan
Athletic F.C.
Manager: Martinez
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Latics |
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25,000 |
Wigan
Athletic - JJB Stadium
Loire
Drive, Robin Park, Wigan, Lancashire. WN5 0UZ
Main
Telephone No: 01942 774 000
Fax No: 01942 770 477
Ticket Office: 0871 663 3552
Fixtures
2008/9
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www.wiganlatics.co.uk |
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