Since their promotion the club have consolidated in the top flight, achieving a string of mid-table finishes under the command of several managers.

While stadium work was prioritised in the early 1990s, the club under manager Graham Turner had consolidated in midtable but failed to make any inroads toward promotion to the top flight ( now the newly formed Premier League ).

The book club division ( most notably the book club license for the Dr. Seuss books by arrangement with Random House ), as well as its imprint Children's Press, were consolidated into its new parent, Scholastic.

The club consolidated their place in the newly-named GM Vauxhall Conference and under manager Jim Kelman they finished in fourth place in 1989.

Physically separate Officers ' Clubs are still the norm ; however, smaller Air Force installations may have one consolidated club with separate lounges.

Since then the club has been a constant presence in prominent places in the Portuguese championship, having consolidated its position of prominence.

Halfway through the 2001 – 02 season Ligue 1 club Guingamp consolidated months of interest with a transfer offer and Drogba left Le Mans for a fee of £ 80, 000.

Since this time the club has consolidated its position within the top tier and continues to climb the table each season.

After finishing third in the last year of the competition, the club was placed into the newly consolidated 2.

Newcastle consolidated their place in Division One but then a period of selling their best players ( Beardsley to Liverpool, and Waddle and Gazza both to Tottenham ), rocked the club and led to supporter unrest, as did a share-war for control of the boardroom.

Those three other great activities of the Persians, the bath, the teahouse, and the zur khaneh ( the latter a kind of club in which a leader and a group of men in an octagonal pit move through a rite of calisthenics, dance, chanted poetry, and music ), do not take place in buildings to which entrance tickets are sold, but some of them occupy splendid examples of Persian domestic architecture: long, domed, chalk-white rooms with daises of turquoise tile, their end walls cut through to the orchards and the sky by open arches.

He walked rapidly along the buildings scanning their facades: one was a club -- that was out ; ;

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

The travel club is comprised of 75 fun-loving couples who have as their motto `` Go Somewhere, Anywhere, Everywhere ''.

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

The sixty-odd club members were the leading business tycoons of Western Pennsylvania and included among their number Frick's best friend, Andrew Mellon, his attorneys Philander Knox and James Hay Reed, as well as Frick's business partner, Carnegie.

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.

A remarkable achievement, since AZ is financially not a big club and it does not have a similar fanbase like their Eredivisie rivals: AZ's home ground in the 2005 – 06 season, the Alkmaarderhout, had a spectator capacity of 8, 390.

Under the management of Luigi Barbesino, the Roman club came close to their first title in 1935 – 36 ; finishing just one point behind champions Bologna.

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.

Ramsey had already cleared out some of the older players who had been reliant on the loyalty of the committee for their continued selection – it was well known that decorum on the pitch at club level had been just as big a factor in playing for England as ability and form.

By the late 1870s, however, croquet had been eclipsed by another fashionable game, tennis, and many of the newly-created croquet clubs, including the All England club at Wimbledon, converted some or all of their lawns into tennis courts.

The Riverside terracing, infamous for the fact that fans occupying it would turn their heads annually to watch The Boat Race pass, was replaced by what was officially named the ' Eric Miller Stand ', Eric Miller being a director of the club at the time.

The Cleveland ball club, named the Spiders ( supposedly inspired by their " skinny and spindly " players ) slowly became a power in the league.

Likewise, their back-to-back World Series victories in 1907 and 1908 made them the first club to win two World Series.

Led by the strong play of Derrek Lee, Ted Lilly and rookie pitcher Randy Wells, the club started well, but fell on hard times as injuries took their toll.

During this time, they still produced prolifically for artists on their new label as well as continuing Solid Steel on Kiss FM, running the night club Stealth ( Club of the Year in the NME, The Face, and Mixmag in 1996 ) and multimedia work with Hex.

Charlton continued their poor run of form to go 18 games without a win, a new club record, before finally achieving a 1 – 0 away victory over Norwich City in an FA Cup Third Round replay.

In 2009 – 10, the club won their first " Double " and in 2012 became the first London club to win the UEFA Champions League.

The club won promotion to the First Division in their second season, and yo-yoed between the First and Second Divisions in their early years.

In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

The club suffered relegation from the Welsh Football League in 2001 and has since slipped down through the next two divisions into its current position, although the future is now looking brighter.

Boles returned to his previous position as director of player development, and former Pittsburgh Pirates manager Jim Leyland was hired to lead the club in.

They are also the only club in the league to have never finished lower than 12th position ( which has only been possible since the league's expansion in 1987 ).

The club also picked up goalkeeper Kevin Hartman from Los Angeles Galaxy as a move to help the club with that position.

Dalglish guided the club from fourth position to a runner-up spot in May and a place in the new format of the following season's UEFA Champions League.

Relegated again in 1931, Manchester United became a yo-yo club, achieving its all-time lowest position of 20th place in the Second Division in 1934.

That year, North Melbourne club CEO Greg Miller met with Sydney's football department to discuss the transfer to North Melbourne Football Club of John Longmire, already an established key position player.

Partly because of this position, he was able to attract more investors to the club leading to some unexpected signings, such as Sekou Cissé, Dani Fernández and Stefan Babović.

After Kieft left for Serie A club Pisa the next season, Van Basten solidified his position as the team's main attacker.

The signing of Alex Stepney at the end of that season briefly threatened his position as Chelsea's first choice goalkeeper and he considered putting in a transfer request, but Stepney ultimately played only one game for the club and was sold to Manchester United a few months later.

Parma Football Club ( formerly Parma Associazione Calcio ), commonly referred to as just Parma, is an Italian professional football club based in Parma, Emilia – Romagna that will compete in Serie A in the 2012 – 13 season, having finished in eighth position last season.

A run of 1 loss in 19 games from February till May saw the club finish in a best-ever 5th position, eventually losing to League Two newcomers Stevenage in the Playoff Semi-Finals.

However, this meant the club achieved a solid mid-table finish in 14th position.

He secretly covets Mickey's fame and position at the club.

In particular, striker Fernando Llorente, whose contract was nearing its end, failed to agree a new deal due to his wage demands ( allegedly far higher than the norm at the club, but less than some other top strikers in other leagues ), and when his position became unstable, it emerged that fellow Spain international Javi Martinez would possibly also be wishing to leave.

At one stage in the tense episode the Argentine coach appeared to have left his position, and although the matter was eventually resolved it was not the positive atmosphere the club desired as the start of the season approached.

Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, the club generally floated between fourth, fifth and sixth position in the league, until they took the league title back in 1963 – 64.

The club finished the 1990 – 91 season in 17th position, thus having to appear in the promotion / relegation playoffs against Real Murcia: on 19 June 1991, after a 0 – 0 away draw, a 5 – 2 home win meant the team managed to maintain its top level status.

Burgess was succeeded by Bill McGarry, who bought new players such as Charlie Livesey and Ron Saunders, and in his only season at the club led the club to what was at the time its highest ever league position: third in the Third Division.

Tromsø IL currently play in the Norwegian Premier League, and holds the position as the northernmost top-level football club in the world.

The Melbourne Cricket Club advertised the position of club secretary and he was led to believe that if he applied, he would get the job.

However, after 13 league matches Eriksson left the club by mutual consent on 24 October 2011 with the Foxes sitting in the 13th position in the league, 2 points from a play-off position.