However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

However, some researchers have disputed the major league status of the Union Association, pointing out that franchises came and went and contending that the St. Louis club, which was deliberately " stacked " by the league's president ( who owned that club ), was the only club that was anywhere close to major league caliber.

However, the club was on extremely shaky financial ground and didn't have many opportunities to generate revenue.

" However, that proposal was rejected 15-1 by the AFL Commission, reportedly out of concern that a merged all-Victorian club would be too powerful.

However, Sam Wyche, the head coach of the Bengals in 1988, along with offensive coordinator Bruce Coslet, made the high-paced offense the standard modality for the ball club regardless of time remaining.

However, the club played poorly in the early season, finding themselves 10 games under. 500 at the end of June.

However, that would be the only time during that season that the club would have a record over. 500, finishing at 53 – 64 and in last place in the National League West in the strike-shortened season.

However, as attendance began to dwindle — the Rockies fell to just sixth in the National League in attendance in 2002, and ninth in 2003 and 2004 — the club could no longer afford to build through big-name free agents.

However, the club was forced to sell players such as Rob Lee to help pay for a return to The Valley, which eventually happened in December 1992.

However, Charlton failed to build on this achievement and Curbishley left two years afterwards in 2006, after 15 years as manager, with the club still established as a solid mid table side.

However, this bizarre relocation plan never materialised and when the club finally did relocate in 2003, it was to the Buckinghamshire town of Milton Keynes.

However, the club blitzed the opposition in this year, losing only two matches and finishing top of the table.

However, this version is occasionally played at club functions.

However, the club faltered in 2011 with injuries to Josh Johnson and Hanley Ramirez ( shoulder ) after showing promise in the months of April and May.

However the club also hosts home matches at the Melbourne Cricket Ground and Docklands Stadium ( currently also known by its sponsorship name as " Etihad Stadium ").

However, in 1878 the club was evicted from the ground by the private owner who ploughed up the paddock because the club had neglected to pay its rent.

However, Dalglish quickly settled into his new club.

However, to avoid the appearance of a conflict of interest, Commissioner ( then club owner ) Bud Selig decided another team should have the first chance to switch leagues.

However, lack of a productive offense doomed the Brewers and the club sunk back to last place, finishing the season 67 – 94.

However, it was the criticism of the Soviet Union that garnered support for the group, transforming it from a " vigilante club " to an activist organization with membership numbering over 15, 000.

However, the rebuilding of the club was taking place.

However, after going 19 – 10 in May, the club moved into first place in the division.

However, the parting was amicable as Kahn remained on the Borland board until November 7, 1996, when he resigned from that position.

However, the success did not last and Lajoie resigned during the 1909 season as manager but remained on as a player.

However, when Constantius arrived Vetranio willingly resigned his position and accepted Constantius ’ offer of a comfortable retirement in Bithynia.

However, when he and Reagan saw the direction in which the group was heading, they resigned the same night.

However Downer's well received tenure was marred by gaffes and controversies by the end of 1994, and he resigned as leader in January 1995.

However, it is also on record that Celestine V resigned by his own design after consultation with experts, and that Benedetto merely showed that it was allowed by Church law.

However, on 5 September 2008, after only 10 months in office, Mally resigned as prime minister of Togo.

However, he resigned the rectorate in April 1934, but remained a member of the Nazi party until 1945, even though Julian Young asserts that the Nazis eventually prevented him from publishing.

However, upon seeing Brutus was with the conspirators, he covered his face with his toga and resigned himself to his fate.

However, before he resigned, Nixon appointed Gerald Ford to the Vice Presidency in accordance with the Twenty-fifth Amendment.

However the programme did not find favour and two-thirds of Conservative MPs were against Lloyd George joining the National government, and some Cabinet members would have resigned if he had joined.

However, he now found the strain of public lecturing too much for him, and after two years he resigned.

However, he resigned only 2 months later in response to massive anti-government demonstrations.

However, learning that formal investigations were opened, he resigned as minister.

However, by January 15, of the following year Sauvé resigned as an MP, and thus as speaker, and two days later she was hospitalised ; rumours circulated that it was due to cancer, but the official story was that the she had contracted a respiratory virus, which was further complicated by an allergy to antibiotics.

However, due to the so-called Toblerone Affair, she took back her candidacy and also later resigned from the government.

However, Pitt resigned in February 1801 ( over King George's unwillingness to support Catholic emancipation in Ireland ), and was replaced by the more accommodating Henry Addington.

However, after a severe illness in 1232, he resigned all his benefices ( Abbotsely and Leicester ), but retained his prebend.

However, after 1936, he resigned from the Manchester Peace Council, urged British rearmament in the face of what Taylor considered to be the Nazi menace, and advocated an Anglo-Soviet alliance to contain Germany.

However, the effort was unsuccessful and in March 1926 de Valera, along with Lemass, resigned from the party.

However when the minority party in government, the Progressive Democrats, threatened to quit government unless Lenihan resigned or was sacked, and Lenihan refused to resign, the Taoiseach, Charles Haughey, instructed President Hillery to sack him.

However, Luisi resigned from the Staatskapelle chief conductorship in February 2010, with immediate effect, after reports that the Staatskapelle's management had secured a contract with the ZDF network for a scheduled televised concert on New Year's Eve, 2011, without consulting him at all in his capacity as the orchestra's GMD.

However, Solti abruptly resigned the position in 1961 without officially taking the post after learning that the Philharmonic board of directors failed to consult him before naming then 26 year-old Zubin Mehta to be assistant conductor of the orchestra.

However, after Raffarin resigned, he said that his decision was not based on the outcome of the vote.

However, Ratner resigned on November 8, 2011 after remarking that " rehearsal is for fags " and disparaging remarks about actress Olivia Munn a few days earlier.