Following the emergence of the Australian Football League, the SANFL, WAFL and other state leagues rapidly declined to a secondary status.

Following this, Ferrigno left the competition circuit for many years, a period that included a brief stint as a defensive lineman for the Toronto Argonauts in the Canadian Football League.

Following the league's dissolution after only one season, Newton Heath joined the newly formed Football Alliance, which ran for three seasons before being merged with the Football League.

Following a Football Association led campaign to persuade FIFA to award medals to all the winners ’ squad members, Bonetti was presented with his medal by Gordon Brown at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street on 10 June 2009.

Following the 2002 – 03 win of the Northern Premier League, the club was promoted for the first time in its history to the Football Conference.

Following 5 wins in the last 12 games it was enough to secure a 17th place finish and another season in the 4th tier of English Football.

Following Kent's departure in 1926, they finished 21st out of 22 clubs in 1926 – 27, but were unanimously re-elected to the league after a ballot of clubs in the top two divisions of The Football League.

Following the resignation of England manager Kevin Keegan after a home loss to Germany in October 2000, the Football Association specifically pursued Eriksson as his replacement.

Following England's heavy defeat to Germany in the second round of the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Waddle criticised the English Football Association, claiming: " The FA sit on their backsides and do nothing tournament after tournament after tournament.

Following the war in 1919, he became President of the French Football Federation, and two years later became President of FIFA on 1 March 1921.

Following a poor run of results and with the club again flirting with the relegation zone to the Football Conference, on 27 February 2008, Ian Brightwell and Asa Hartford left the club with immediate effect.

Following a conference between club directors on 23 March, the English Football League is founded on 17 April as one division of twelve clubs.

Following retirement from playing in league football in 1994, Blissett created a huge stir in the Eastern Counties Football League by agreeing to play for Fakenham Town in Norfolk, whose chairman was a lifelong Watford fan, and big crowds turned out wherever he played.

Following a Football Association led campaign to persuade FIFA to award medals to all the winners ’ squad members, Greaves was presented with his medal by Gordon Brown at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street on 10 June 2009.

Following the Grey Cup loss, head coach Ken Miller resigned and became Vice President of Football operations.

Following the urging of American Football League commissioner Al Davis, Rozelle also agreed to the creation of the Super Bowl and later supported the concept of Monday Night Football.

Following the termination of operations of the Arena Football League on August 4, 2009, Georgia Force officials quickly followed with a release that indicated that they, too, were ceasing operations.

Following the political partition of Ireland into separate national states, the Republic of Ireland ( originally the Irish Free State then Éire ) and Northern Ireland ( a political division of the United Kingdom ), the then Committee of the Irish Rugby Football Union decided that it would continue to administer its affairs on the basis of the full 32 Irish counties and the traditional four provinces of Ireland: Leinster ( 12 counties ), Ulster ( 9 counties ), Munster ( 6 counties ), and Connacht ( 5 counties ).

Following two further petitions for liquidation brought by Thwaites Brewery and ING Lease UK and their refusal of an offer of 25p in the pound, on 14 May 2009 Darwen Football Club was wound up in the High Court.

Following a Football Association led campaign to persuade FIFA to award medals to every non-playing squad and staff member, George Cohen received the medal on behalf of the former England manager's family from Gordon Brown at a ceremony at 10 Downing Street on 10 June 2009.

Following eleven seasons in the second-tier Football League Championship without any significant success, Coventry were relegated to Football League One in 2012, the first time in 48 years that the club were destined to play in the English league system's third tier.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Following German reunification in 1990, the FDP merged with the Association of Free Democrats, a grouping of liberals from East Germany and the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany.

Following a split between supporters of Marx and Mikhail Bakunin, anarchists formed the International Workers ' Association.

Following the convictions, Hanns Martin Schleyer, a former officer of the SS and NSDAP member who was then President of the German Employers ' Association ( and thus one of the most powerful industrialists in West Germany ) was abducted in a violent kidnapping.

Following further research by the Association of Cricket Statisticians and Historians ( ACS ) in the 1970s and 1980s, an " amended " career record was published which reduced Grace's total of centuries to 124.

Following an August 23, 1971, bank robbery in Queens, Shakur was sought for questioning, and a photograph of a woman ( who was later alleged to be Shakur ) with thick rimmed black glasses, a high hairdo pulled tightly over her head, and a steadily pointed gun became ubiquitous in banks and full page print ads paid for by the New York Clearing House Association.

" Following those White House meetings, Chancellor Henry MacCracken of New York University organized a meeting of 13 colleges and universities to initiate changes ; at a follow-on meeting, 62 institutions became charter members of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States ( IAAUS ).

Following the season's conclusion St. Paul, Sioux City, Sioux Falls, and Lincoln announced they were leaving the league to form a new independent league with five teams from the folded Central Baseball League in the southern United States ; the new league was to be known as the American Association of Independent Professional Baseball.

Following the 2010 season, the Northern League announced that Winnipeg, Kansas City, Fargo-Moorhead, and Gary SouthShore would be leaving the league to join the American Association.

Following the collapse of the Repeal Association and with the arrival of famine, the Young Irelanders broke away completely from O ’ Connell in 1846.

Following his election, the independent in South Hornchurch joined the leader of the Rainham Independent Residents ' Association in forming the Independent Local Residents ' Group.

Following his training, he moved to Mumbai and joined the Indian People's Theatre Association, for whom he composed music for ballets in 1945 and 1946.

Following the separation, Charlotte moved with her daughter to Pasadena, California, where she became active in several feminist and reformist organizations such as The Pacific Coast Woman's Press Association, the Woman's Alliance, the Economic Club, the Ebell Society, the Parents Association, and the State Council of Women, in addition to writing and editing the Bulletin, a journal put out by one of the earlier-mentioned organizations.

Following this ILGA, by a vote of 214-30 expelled North American Man / Boy Love Association ( NAMBLA ) and two other groups ( Vereniging MARTIJN and Project Truth ) in early 1994 because they were judged to be " groups whose predominant aim is to support or promote pedophilia.

* United Nations press release, 4 February 2011: Following Protracted Debate, Roll-Call Vote on ‘ No Action ’ Motion, Committee Defers Consideration of International Lesbian and Gay Association

Following a fire that destroyed a local church, the Civic Association worked toward forming a community fire department, which was incorporated soon after.

Following the commencement ceremony, a reception was held, at which time, the Tallmadge High School Alumni Association was organized.

Following this experience, he became an active participant in the National Association of Drug Court Professionals ( NADCP ), sharing his story on Capitol Hill, and working to help raise awareness, and money, for a National Drug Court.

Following his father-in-law, he was a member of the United States Golf Association, serving successively as secretary, vice-president and president, 1928 – 1935.

Following his election as MP for Belfast West, the British government lifted a ban on him travelling to Great Britain.

Following the ban of Falun Gong in 1999, Chinese authorities sought to portray Falun Gong as a hierarchical and well-funded organization.

Following Jiang Zemin's 1999 ban of Falun Gong, then-Minister of Education Chen Zhili launched an active campaign to promote the Party's line on Falun Gong within all levels of academic institutions, including graduate schools, universities and colleges, middle schools, primary schools, and kindergartens.

Following an action brought by a serving British naval officer, the European Court has established as precedent the illegality of any member nation attempting to ban Masonic membership for military officers, as a breach of their human rights.

Following the film's lackluster response in the UK, German distributors did decline to distribute it, but their lack of interest did not technically constitute a ban.

Following a fire at Oxford Circus station the ban was extended to all subsurface stations but smokers often ignored this and lit cigarettes on the escalators on their way out.

Following a settlement of a recording ban imposed by the American Federation of Musicians, the Orchestra switched to Columbia Records in 1944, recording some of the dances from Borodin's Prince Igor.

Following the UK ban of sow stalls, the British Pig Executive indicates that the pig farming industry in the UK has declined.

Following Suter's return from suspension, NHL senior vice president Brian Burke was supposed by Ducks head coach Pierre Page to have said that he would have given Suter a longer ban if the extent of Kariya's injuries were immediately known.

Following the vote by the Knesset, the Israeli legislature, in 2007 in favour of bills to ban lesbian and gay pride parades in Jerusalem, the Lesbian and Gay Coalition Against Racism criticised Tatchell saying " Peter Tatchell and others who have distinguished themselves by the speed of their quite proper defence of lesbian and gay rights when these have been attacked by Black, Arab, Muslim forces or regimes have still refused to condemn with equal force the official attacks on lesbian and gay rights by the highest institutions of the State of Israel.

Following the ban on Sufi orders in the Republic of Turkey, the Bektashi community's headquarters was moved from Hacıbektaş in central Anatolia to Tirana, Albania.

Following a series of high-profile maulings by pit bulls, the government also moved to ban the dogs.

Following the commencement of the Smoking ban in England, it became illegal to smoke in most telephone boxes.

Following an incident in which a healthy young man suffered a myocardial infarction ( heart attack ) linked to bitter orange, a case study found that dietary supplement manufacturers who replaced ephedra with its analogs from " bitter orange " had in effect found a loophole in the ephedra ban, substituting a similarly dangerous substance while labeling the products as " ephedra-free ".

Following the abortion ban, again according to a SurveyUSA poll, Rounds's approval rating dropped 14 % to 58 %; his approval rebounded to 70 % after the ban was repealed.

Following Toyota's disqualification and 12-month ban in 1995, Kankkunen did not return to active participation in the series until joining Ford halfway through the 1997 season replacing an underperforming Armin Schwarz.

Following the FIA's decision to ban Group B, Peugeot withdrew from the WRC and Kankkunen moved to drive the Lancia Delta HF 4WD for Lancia Martini, Lancia's factory WRC team.

Following representations from kite-fliers and completion of a risk assessment, the council rescinded the ban on condition that kite fliers remain at least 50m from the sand dunes.

Following the Cumbria shootings by Derrick Bird, the UK ' gun laws ' came under review, with many calling for the laws to be simplified due to what has been called a ' piecemeal ' set of laws introduced following previous massacres in Hungerford and Dunblane, which led to the ban on semi-automatic rifles over. 22 rimfire calibre and handguns, respectively.

Following British colonialism and with changes and ban in ancient hunting practices, the Annang witnessed attacks by wild animals.

Following the work of O. J. Campbell, it has commonly been thought that Marston turned to the theatre in response to the Bishops ' Ban of 1599 ; more recent scholars have noted that the ban was not enforced with great rigor and might not have intimidated prospective satirists at all.

Following undesirable effects observed on several patients of a French practitioner, an official ratification was published in France in April 2011 to ban Mesotherapy as a method for removing fat deposits.

Following bouts of overfishing in the 1990s, the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources placed a partial ban on fishing in the river.