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In the 1980s Oxford United and Reading FC of the English Football League almost became the same club. Robert Maxwell, one-time editor of The Daily Mirror, was the owner of Oxford and had the ill-conceived idea to merge the two rivals.
This is the story of how it wouldn’t work out.
Written by David Goldblatt, illustrated by Philippe Fenner.
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'A move that Smee thought :"Very illegal" '
It reminds me of the other aborted merger: Manchester North End was to be the merger of Oldham, Preston North End and another team which escapes me.
Yellow shorts, yellow sleeves with a blue and white hooped main and blue and white hooped socks. Imagine such a monstrosity.
love the closing momento mori…
Thames Valley Royals is such a PES name. I am sure it would have been great, but no one would ever be able to take them seriously.
COOL !
just as trying to combine Liverpool and Everton, Man City and Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea..
Robert Maxwell was Ghislaine Maxwell’s father, for those who don’t know.
He also almost bought the rights for Tetris from under the nose of Nintendo
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Imagine being told to support it or support someone else. This almost happened with Fulham and QPR, almost happened as well.
The personification of the quote: "We're gonna need a bigger boat"
EDIT: It seems to me I am a poet, until right now I did not know it.
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Just hearing Robert Maxwell's name makes me jump on my internet banking to check everything is still there.
Best Title ever
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