This move was unpopular with supporters and in the late 1980s significant steps were taken to bring about the club's return to The Valley.

The club's supporters have been involved in two major tragedies.

The club's supporters have been involved in two stadium disasters.

In 1980, the Saints lost their first 14 games, prompting local sportscaster Bernard " Buddy D " Diliberto to advise Saints supporters to wear paper bags over their heads at the team's home games ; many bags rendered the club's name as the "' Aints " rather than the " Saints.

In his first season in charge-the club's centenary-Rangers won the Scottish Cup at Hampden in front of 122, 000 supporters.

The club's supporters are known as Evertonians.

As soon as The Football Association approved this move in May 2002, former Wimbledon FC supporters founded their own replacement club, the semi-professional AFC Wimbledon, and the club's support overwhelmingly shifted to the new team, who in their second and third seasons of existence earned successive promotions to the First then Premier Divisions of the Isthmian League.

In 2006, Leeds United supporters voted Charlton into the club's greatest ever XI.

The club's mascot is a lion named Lelê Leão ( Lion ), and according to Vitória's official site, his objective is to stimulate the club's supporters and players on match days.

Since his reign the club have declined ; Bill Bratt's Valiant 2001 supporters group took the club out of administration in 2003 but failed to halt the club's slide down into the basement division of the Football League.

In the 1980s, a minority of the club's supporters had a reputation as one of Britain's most prominent casuals groups.

The club's supporters refer to themselves as the ' Amber Army ' in reference to the traditional club colour, and the sporting colours more widely associated with Newport.

At the end of the 1997 – 98 season the Loftus Road club avoided relegation at the expense of Manchester City, Stoke City and Reading but the club's directors and supporters expected more.

George French Kempsell of the Church of Saint James the Less announced that he would ban any supporters of the club's decision from receiving holy communion.

The club is owned by the club's supporters through the Exeter City Supporters Trust.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy is one of the club's most prominent supporters.

" chant was first sung in 1894 by Sheffield United supporters, and directed at the club's goalkeeper William " Fatty " Foulke, who weighed over.

The club's supporters also includes an Ultras section, Superas Fredrikstad.

However, the considerable efforts of a group of local businessmen and the club's supporters helped save the club from extinction.

At the end of the 2011 / 12 season, in which the Club finished 9th in League One missing out on the play-offs by 6 points, the club's supporters voted to sell the entire club's shareholding to supporter-investor Matthew Benham.

Stockport County fans are known for singing the club's anthem, " The Scarf My Father Wore ", and, similar to Tottenham Hotspur fans, the " Blue & White Army "; in this chant, the supporters sing the manager's name, followed by " blue & white army ", as the team play in blue & white.

The club finally reverted to " Leyton Orient " in 1987, shortly after Tony Wood took over as chairman and at a time when a supporters ' campaign was taking place in the Leyton Orientear fanzine to reinstate the Leyton part of the club's name.

The 2003 Football Fans Census revealed that no other team's supporters considered York to be among their club's main rivals.

When the Bank Street ground was temporarily closed by bailiffs in 1902, club captain Harry Stafford raised enough money to pay for the club's next away game at Bristol City and found a temporary ground at Harpurhey for the next reserves game against Padiham.

That spring, Smith and Television shared a two-month-long weekend residency at CBGB that significantly raised the club's profile.

In 2003, the John Ireland Stand was renamed the Steve Bull Stand ( in honour of the club's highest goalscorer of all time ), and at the same time the south-west corner of the ground was filled with 900 temporary seats, known as the Graham Hughes Stand, which, until their removal in the summer of 2006, raised the Molineux capacity to 29, 400.

Thanks to a dispute with their landlords, who had raised the rent of the Racecourse Ground to £ 10 a year, Wrexham played their home games in the 1881 – 82 and 1882 – 83 seasons at Rhosddu Recreation Ground ( changing the club's name to Wrexham Athletic for one season ), before moving back to the Racecourse Ground for the 1883 – 84 season, where the club have played their home games ever since.

The club's budget was raised by a ball held in order to celebrate the establishment of the club.

Docherty built a new team around the group of talented young players emerging from the club's youth set-up and Chelsea challenged for honours throughout the 1960s, enduring several near-misses.

However, following Manchester United's first league title in 1908 and the FA Cup a year later, it was decided that Bank Street was too restrictive for Davies ' ambition ; in February 1909, six weeks before the club's first FA Cup title, Old Trafford was named as the home of Manchester United, following the purchase of land for around £ 60, 000.

However, PSV fans took on this nickname, taking pride in their Brabantian heritage, this Brabantian identity also plays a fundamental role in the club's culture with the Flag of North Brabant being incorporated in shirt design and being displayed in and around the stadium.

In 2002, Gunder Bengtsson led Molde to second place in the league, but like when he won the league with Vålerenga in 1983 and 1984, there weren't much enthusiasm around the club's sixth silver medals, because of the defensive tactics and lack of local players.

He was replaced by former coach Laurent Banide, who was unable to turn around the club's fortunes ; Monaco finished the 2010 – 11 season in 18th position, thus becoming relegated to Ligue 2.

This meant that the club's average attendances were around the two-thousand mark, making the club's formative years a financial success.

The Surrey team and committee were impressed, and when the regular Surrey captain, Lord Dalmeny, assumed control for the following match against Essex, the club's opening County Championship match, Hobbs retained his place and scored 155 runs in around three hours during Surrey's second innings.

MCC has always been heavily involved in coaching the game of cricket and the club's current head coach Mark Alleyne heads an extensive operation involving the running of an indoor cricket school and a team of coaches in England and around the world.

The club's golden period came around the time of the First World War.

Fitzgerald was unable to turn around the club's fortunes, and Brentford were relegated to Football League Two – English Football's 4th tier – in April 2007.

The group began to publicise the club's plight through a series of meetings and events, including a ' Scarf of Unity ', which was a collection of scarfs from various clubs which was long enough to stretch around the perimeter of the pitch.

The club's fortunes were turned around in 1967 when Alan Ball Sr took over as manager of the club.

The result sent shockwaves around Scottish football and led to a number of the Rangers players leaving Ibrox ; it was also the club's greatest home attendance of 13, 365.

DJ Roger Eagle, a collector of imported American soul, jazz and rhythm and blues, was booked around this time, and the club's reputation as a place to hear and dance to the latest American R & B music began to grow.

In the club's early days Athletic struggled to attract crowds of over 150, but by the time the club reached the Conference, crowds at Crabble were averaging around 1, 000.

Wary of his ageing Arsenal team and the club's inadequate reserves ( as proven by the Walsall match ), around this time Chapman noted to club director George Allison: " The team's played out, Mr Allison, we must rebuild.

Following the bankruptcy, Lyn's fans gathered around the club's surviving team in the Sixth Division ( seventh tier ) for the remainder of the 2010 season moving their home games to Frogner Stadion, drawing large crowds to their home games.

Rijkaard then took Barcelona to the next level as he phased out the old guard and rebuilt a new-look side around Ronaldinho, with new players like Deco, Samuel Eto ' o, Rafael Márquez and Ludovic Giuly, along with the latest promotion of some young players from the previous era trained in the club's youth teams ( i. e. Víctor Valdés, Carles Puyol, Xavi and Andrés Iniesta ).

Nevertheless, at a time when transfer fees were still around the £ 1, 000 mark, the cost of construction only served to reinforce the club's " Moneybags United " epithet, with which they had been tarred since Davies had taken over as chairman.

Nevertheless, the Manchester United group property manager confirmed that expansion plans are in the pipeline – linked to profits made from the club's property holdings around Manchester – saying " There is a strategic plan for the stadium ...

He also constructed a family ethos around the club's staff and players.

As a result a woman on the stage, believed to be the club's owner, grabbed him from behind, and Ben mistaking her for an attacking fan turned around and punched her twice in the scuffle.

Surrey CCC was founded on the evening of 22 August 1845 at the Horns Tavern in Kennington, South London, where around 100 representatives of various cricket clubs in Surrey agreed a motion put by William Denison ( the club's first secretary ) " that a Surrey club be now formed ".

The area around the stadium was revitalised with the building of the Visconde de Alvalade building, which houses the club's business interests ; a new shopping centre called Alvaláxia also opened, and operates as a cultural and entertainment centre ; Clínica CUF, a medical clinic ; a health club ; a day-centre, made possible by the expression of solidarity of the " Leões de Portugal " (" Lions of Portugal ") organization ; and the " Mundo Sporting " (" Sporting's World ") club museum.