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Post by Stu on Jan 6, 2010 22:38:17 GMT
Hooray! Ok, here goes. Which English club was assumed to be under the target of a curse after building its ground on the site of an old gypsy camping ground? Rose Lee Eff See Nah. You need to use your crystal balls.
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Post by james on Jan 6, 2010 23:11:01 GMT
on the grounds that they could only get where they are now with a Gypsy's curse - Southampton?
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Post by Stu on Jan 7, 2010 1:37:46 GMT
Wrong answer.
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Post by billy on Jan 7, 2010 10:44:45 GMT
Hooray! Ok, here goes. Which English club was assumed to be under the target of a curse after building its ground on the site of an old gypsy camping ground? I remember this news story as I was based down south at the time...although the team escapes me for the moment. Would I be right in assuming that Barry Fry was involved in this?
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Post by Stu on Jan 7, 2010 11:12:31 GMT
Hooray! Ok, here goes. Which English club was assumed to be under the target of a curse after building its ground on the site of an old gypsy camping ground? I remember this news story as I was based down south at the time...although the team escapes me for the moment. Would I be right in assuming that Barry Fry was involved in this? That might well be another similar story, Billy but this tale goes way back beyond Barry Fry's time...
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Post by hiblog on Jan 8, 2010 2:21:25 GMT
I seem to recall you blogging about this one Stu....
Mansfield?
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Post by Stu on Jan 8, 2010 10:01:39 GMT
I seem to recall you blogging about this one Stu.... Mansfield? Haven't blogged about it but you're getting extremely warm...
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Post by sean on Jan 8, 2010 15:03:11 GMT
I seem to recall you blogging about this one Stu.... Mansfield? Haven't blogged about it but you're getting extremely warm... Geographically warn I pressume? Nottingham Forrest / Notts County / Derby / Doncaster
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Post by Stu on Jan 8, 2010 15:14:43 GMT
It's Derby County. Fire away, Sean.
'In 1895, the club moved to the Baseball Ground where they would remain for 102 years. The first honour the Rams won arrived in 1946 with a 4-1 FA Cup Final defeat of Charlton Athletic after extra-time.
The lack of fortune in the competition up to this point - three final reverses and regular defeats at the semi-final stage - prompted a notion that the club was under the spell of a gypsy curse because of the Baseball Ground being built on a gypsy camping ground. Prior to the 1946 triumph, players even asked gypsies angry at the development to lift the curse.'
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Post by sean on Jan 8, 2010 15:36:15 GMT
I'm sure we all remember the tragic fire at Bradford FC a few years back.
The stand that was destroyed in that tragedy replaced an older stand at Valley Parade, the older stand having been dismantled and re-erected at which senior football club ground?
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Post by hibbybrian on Jan 8, 2010 18:43:26 GMT
Newcastle ?
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Post by sean on Jan 9, 2010 12:44:54 GMT
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Post by Stu on Jan 9, 2010 12:46:38 GMT
Middlesborough?
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Post by sean on Jan 9, 2010 22:04:30 GMT
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Post by hibbybrian on Jan 10, 2010 15:06:28 GMT
Sunderland?
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