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Wishaw United F.C.
Wishaw United F.C. was a Scottish association football, football team, from the town of Wishaw in Lanarkshire, which played in the Scottish Football Combination, a third-rank national league. History The 1899–1900 season saw two professional football clubs in Wishaw, Wishaw F.C. (1899), Wishaw F.C. and Wishaw Thistle F.C., Wishaw Thistle, dividing the support and both struggling as a result. Meetings took place in April 1900 with a view to merging the two sides, and on the 30th the members resolved to form a new club, which, despite suggestions of retaining the simple Wishaw name, or adopting the name of the earlier Wishaw Swifts F.C., Wishaw Swifts club, was named Wishaw United F.C.. Both clubs finished their respective seasons and clearing their debts to avoid any liabilities transferring over. The United committee took care to point out that the new club was not assuming any of Thistle's current liabilities when it was chosen to replace it in the Combination. The club c ... [...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] |
