Post by stevestreet71 on Mar 21, 2013 18:18:03 GMT
Hi all,
As some of you will know, I've been attempting to put together a world club version for the last 8 years or so.
Recently, I decided to re-tackle the lineage which took place in the 1900s when the all-conquering Tottenham Hotspur took the title at the time when they were winning the FA Cup and therefore took the route into the non-league competitions.
Having been very much helped by the Daily Express newspaper archive, I've now reached a point where I need some help please and wondered what people thought.
Problem: Croydon Common of Southern League fame became champions and promptly got relegated from Division One of the Southern League. During the new season they competed in 3 leagues:
- Southern League Division Two
- London League Division One
- South Eastern League Division One
The first problem I have is whether to use the results of the last two leagues named above as a number of reserve sides were included that year and therefore weren't full first XI competitions but Croydon Common fielded their first team in these games.
The second problem I then have is if these games are included, the lineage then comes to the champions being the Brighton & Hove Albion reserve side in the first game of the new season. Would the champions then become 'Brighton & Hove Albion' as a whole or just the reserve side?
Alternatively, do you just include fixtures from these leagues that have first teams playing in them on both sides?
I realise this is all hypothetical in the real sense but wondered what everbody's thoughts were.....
Look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Steve
As some of you will know, I've been attempting to put together a world club version for the last 8 years or so.
Recently, I decided to re-tackle the lineage which took place in the 1900s when the all-conquering Tottenham Hotspur took the title at the time when they were winning the FA Cup and therefore took the route into the non-league competitions.
Having been very much helped by the Daily Express newspaper archive, I've now reached a point where I need some help please and wondered what people thought.
Problem: Croydon Common of Southern League fame became champions and promptly got relegated from Division One of the Southern League. During the new season they competed in 3 leagues:
- Southern League Division Two
- London League Division One
- South Eastern League Division One
The first problem I have is whether to use the results of the last two leagues named above as a number of reserve sides were included that year and therefore weren't full first XI competitions but Croydon Common fielded their first team in these games.
The second problem I then have is if these games are included, the lineage then comes to the champions being the Brighton & Hove Albion reserve side in the first game of the new season. Would the champions then become 'Brighton & Hove Albion' as a whole or just the reserve side?
Alternatively, do you just include fixtures from these leagues that have first teams playing in them on both sides?
I realise this is all hypothetical in the real sense but wondered what everbody's thoughts were.....
Look forward to hearing from you.
Cheers,
Steve