Football clubs’ original names quiz

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Jedi boro

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From the list below name the current club from their original name.

Dial square
St Domingo’s
St Luke's
St Jude’s
Riverside
Thames iron works
Ardwick FC
Boscombe st Johns
Stanley
South shore
 
Ardwick has to be Man City as Newton Heath was Man U.

Boscombe has to be Bournemouth

Did Stanley move to Gateshead ?
 
I’ll publish full list in the morning

For those wanting to keep guessing

They are all clubs in the current 92 league clubs
 
Answers are

Dial square - Arsenal

St Domingo’s - Everton

St Luke's - wolves

St Jude’s - QPR

Riverside - Cardiff

Thames iron works - West Ham

Ardwick FC - Man City

Boscombe st Johns - Bournemouth

Stanley - Newcastle

South shore - Blackpool
 
Really hard that. Shows how many teams were formed by churches. The tag was muscular christianity. Everton still have a church in the corner of Goodison.
I thought Newcastle was Newcastle West End which joined with East End as "United." But that was maybe a slightly later name.
 
fmttmadmin said:
Really hard that. Shows how many teams were formed by churches. The tag was muscular christianity. Everton still have a church in the corner of Goodison.
I thought Newcastle was Newcastle West End which joined with East End as "United." But that was maybe a slightly later name.
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It was. One of the 'bits' was originally called Stanley. Not sure it counts tbh.
 
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