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Alpha F.C.
Alpha Football Club was an association football club from Motherwell, Lanarkshire, that was the ancestor club of Motherwell Football Club. History The club was formed in 1881 as the works side of the Alpha Steam Crane and Engine Works. The media sometimes referred to the club as Motherwell Alpha. Alpha's first competitive football came in the 1883–84 Lanarkshire Cup, and, thanks to two wins and a bye, reached the semi-final. Alpha lost 4–0 at the more experienced Cambuslang, who scored 3 goals in the final 10 minutes, and who beat Dykehead in the final by the same score. The club entered the Lanarkshire again in the following season, "unexpectedly" beating Hamilton Academical 5–2, but losing to Dykehead in the quarter-final. In August 1885, Alpha turned senior by joining the Scottish Football Association, and entered the 1885–86 Scottish Cup. It played Cambuslang Hibernians at home in the first round, and the match was a 14-goal thriller, the visitors winni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 players who primarily use their feet to propel the ball around a rectangular field called a pitch. The objective of the game is to score more goals than the opposition by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular framed goal defended by the opposing side. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45 minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries, it is considered the world's most popular sport. The game of association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 with the International Football Association Board (IFAB) maintaining them since 1886. The game is played with a football that is in circumference. The two teams compete to get the ball into the other team's goal (between the posts and under t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wishaw Swifts F
Wishaw ( sco, Wishae or Wisha ; gd, Camas Neachdain) is a large town in North Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the edge of the Clyde Valley, south-east of Glasgow city centre. The Burgh of Wishaw was formed in 1855 within Lanarkshire. it formed a joint large burgh with its neighbour Motherwell from 1920 until its dissolution when Scottish local authorities were restructured in 1975, and was then in Motherwell district within the Strathclyde region until 1996. The town is part of the Motherwell and Wishaw constituency. It has the postal code of ML2 and the dialling code 01698. Geography and climate Wishaw lies within North Lanarkshire, the fourth largest local authority in Scotland by population. The town is located in the relatively level Central Belt area; while there are valleys and high moors, there are no hills or summits over 1,640 feet. The defined "locality" of Wishaw had a population of 30,290 in 2016, the 26th largest such place in the country. Along with i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
