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

2012 is set to mark the 100th anniversary of the club's formation, with a series of events lined up to mark this and the subsequent centenary season.

In August 1980, Leicester became the first English club to go on a tour in the southern hemisphere, where they played six games in Australia and Fiji to mark the club's centenary.

The club's average attendance had stood at nearly 3, 000 in the 2005-06 season, but in the relegation season of three years later it fell below the 2, 000 mark.

The facade of the Main Stand was rebuilt to mark the club's centenary in 1988.

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.

In 2003, Willie Miller was voted the greatest Aberdeen player of all time in a poll to mark the club's centenary.

Young Illawarra juniors such as Brett Rodwell and Rod Wishart made their mark in this game, players that would form the foundation of the club's improved performances in the early 1990s.

It was capped off with a win over the Brisbane Lions which broke the club's longest streak without a win in its history, when he took a spectacular mark and also kicked a magnificent goal on the run.

He reached the 20-goal mark on 13 May in a 2 – 1 win at Wimbledon, and would finish the season as the club's top scorer with 22 goals in the league, eight in the FA Cup, two in the League Cup, and two in the Charity Shield, amounting to 34 in all competitions.

As a mark of this fresh start, on 24 April 1902, the club's name was changed to " Manchester United ".

Although Leicester were ultimately relegated with a mere five league wins all season, Piper made his mark in the club's history by scoring the last ever competitive goal at Filbert Street against Tottenham Hotspur as Leicester won 2-1.

The arrival of Rafael Benítez as coach in 2001 – 02 would mark Vicente's opportunity to prove himself, and he did not disappoint as his progress led to the club's first league title in over 30 years.

He was also on the mark in the home against Leeds United towards the latter end of that season, a season which he temporarily became the club's first choice left-back in the final few months.

During the 2006 – 07 campaign Brunt passed the 100 appearance mark for Wednesday, making him the club's most experienced player at the time.

Promotion to Serie B in 1966 would mark the beginning of one of the club's most successful periods.

The club's badge is a cockerel, which echoes both the trade mark of the Courage brand and the weathervane on St Mary's church.

The album would mark the last full time studio album appearance of founding member Gregg Rolie, and his penultimate recording with the band: his final contributions would appear on Dream, After Dream, a soundtrack album to the Japanese film of the same name, which would also be released in 1980.

Very occasionally, Franquin stepped over the mark, as in an uncharacteristically angry strip where Gaston uses a toy Messerschmitt plane to strafe the whole office in protest at their ( real life ) appearance in the magazine's modelling column ( while building the model, he says: “… and now, the swastikas.

This has suggested to many that the author responsible for the interpolation of the second angelic appearance has left his mark also on the original account ( v. 1-13-19 ).

While the Church of Our Lady ( Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekerk ) definitely leaves its mark on the appearance of the city, nothing defines Aarschot better than the river that passes through it: the Demer.

But " it was a break from the past for a clergyman to abandon his clean-shaven appearance which was the norm for late medieval priesthood ; with Luther providing a precedent his exile period, virtually all the continental reformers had deliberately grown beards as a mark of their rejection of the old church, and the significance of clerical beards as an aggressive anti-Catholic gesture was well recognised in mid-Tudor England.

* Uncle O ' Grimacey – Created in 1977 and first appeared in 1986 for an advertising narrative of McDonald's, both in celebration of Saint Patrick's Day and to mark the annual appearance of the Shamrock Shake.

Cantona made his first appearance for Manchester United in a friendly match against Benfica in Lisbon to mark Eusébio's 50th birthday, wearing the number 10 shirt.

The 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, voted by the National Constituent Assembly, seemed to some in the church to mark the appearance of the antichrist, in that they excluded Christian morality from the new ' natural order '.

* The Seventh Doctor's question mark handle umbrella makes its first appearance in this story.

A near-mint CGC-graded 9. 6 copy sold for $ 1. 1 million to an unnamed collector on March 7, 2011, making the issue one of only three different comic books to have broken the million-dollar mark ( the others being the debut of Superman in Action Comics # 1, of which three copies have sold for more than $ 1 million each ; and the first appearance of Batman in Detective Comics # 27 ).

The character's physical appearance has gone through many transformations, with various special makeup effects artists making their mark on the character's design, including makeup artist Stan Winston.

It is clear from Chichele's position in the list, with eleven fellows and eight scholars, or probationer fellows, below him, that this entry does not mark his first appearance in the college, which had been going on since 1375 at least, and was chartered in 1379.

" As part of it, ITV commissioned a unique one-off music spectacular will mark Westlife ’ s final TV appearance as the pop giants take to the stage to sing some of their greatest hits, it will be entitled " Westlife: For the Last Time ".

It would also mark the first of Sundin's last three years with the Leafs without a post-season appearance.

New Gods # 1 would mark the first appearance of Orion, Highfather, and Metron, among others ; and further issues into the series would mark the first appearance of many other Fourth World characters, as well as explaining key concepts about the New Gods.

The passing years have left their mark on the city's appearance.

In his last appearance of the season, Feller recorded five strikeouts against the Detroit Tigers on September 29 to set the AL single-season strikeout mark.

The appearance of the witches ' mark in Europe is only noted after Colombian contact with the New World in 1492 and may be the result of the transfer of a virulent form of borrelia infection from America into Europe, especially in areas under the control of the Spanish Empire, including parts of the Rhine River Valley that are now in Germany.

Due to the association with the " musky " odor which the muskrat uses to mark its territory and its rat-like appearance, the name became altered to muskrat.

Even though this never really happened, this is considered by some to mark the first official appearance of American Dad!

" Thou hast no form or feature, No caste or lineage ; None can describe Thy appearance, Color, mark or garb.

The Grothendieck Festschrift was a three-volume collection of research papers to mark his sixtieth birthday ( falling in 1988 ), and published in 1990.

The current world record for women is held by Galina Chistyakova of the former Soviet Union who leapt in Leningrad on June 11, 1988, a mark that has stood for 24 years.

Despite finishing at the. 500 mark in 1988 – 89, the Flyers made the playoffs for the 17th consecutive season.

The 1987 – 88 season would also mark the start of the Pistons-Bulls rivalry which was formed from 1988 – 1991.

The work was commissioned to mark the Australian bicentenary in 1988.

Schmidt passed Santo's record for double plays in 1986, his record for assists in 1987, and his mark for total chances in 1988.

Commissioned by Renfrew District Council to mark Paisley's 500th anniversary as a burgh of barony, it was premiered on 6 August 1988 in Paisley Abbey with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra under Bryden Thomson.

Occasional special idents were also produced including a modified logo to mark the station's 30th anniversary in 1987, while the main ident was largely replaced by 1988 in favour of a new set of seasonal and themed idents.

* Millennium 88FM temporary local radio service for Dublin during 1988 and part of 1989 to mark 1988 at the year of the Dublin Millennium.

Freehan held the records for career putouts ( 9941 ) and total chances ( 10, 734 ) from 1975 until the late 1980s ; Bob Boone broke his major league mark for career total chances in 1987, and Gary Carter surpassed his putouts total in 1988 ; Carlton Fisk broke his American League records in 1989 ( total chances ) and 1990 ( putouts ).

One high mark in this renewed rivalry was a February 1988 country-whipping match between Kevin and Kerry against Gordy and Roberts.

In January 1988, it was renamed the Ocean University of Qingdao, and Deng Xiaoping wrote the name of the university in his own calligraphic style to mark the occasion.

One consolation was that he would finally have Guy Lafleur as his teammate to mark the beginning of the 1988 – 89 NHL season.

It is not definitively known when the original building was constructed-however during reconstruction work in 1988, a slate bearing a mason's mark from the year 1850 was discovered.

On April 26, 1988 some 500 people participate in a march organized by the Ukrainian Culturological Club on Kyiv's Khreschatyk to mark the second anniversary of the Chornobyl nuclear disaster, carrying placards with slogans such as " Openness and Democracy to the End ".

The eighties marked a professional setbacks in Chopra's career as several films he directed and produced in that period failed to leave a mark at the Indian box office, notably Silsila ( 1981 ), Mashaal ( 1984 ) and Vijay ( 1988 ).

Pair of crystal glass slippers presented to the City Of Plymouth by the Plymouth Committee of the British Olympic Appeal and Mr & Mrs M. Hockin to mark the occasion of Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal attending the British Olympic Appeal Gala Ball on 15 July 1988

In 1988, Centre set a national record when it achieved a 75. 4 % participation rate for alumni giving, a mark that remains unbroken to this day.

Technotronic is a Belgian studio-based music project formed in 1988 by Jo Bogaert, who had already made his musical mark in the beginning of the 1980s as a part of a cover band and as a solo artist under various New Beat projects, including The Acts of Madmen and Nux Nemo.

Schottenheimer would remain with the Browns until 1988, amassing a 44-27 (. 620 ) regular-season record and a 2-4 (. 333 ) mark in the playoffs, including four playoff appearances, three AFC Central Division titles, and two trips to the AFC Championship Game ( both against the Denver Broncos ).

By 1988, when he finished his schooling, Gopichand had made a mark for himself in the Badminton circuit.

* Article 2 of Council Directive 89 / 104 / EEC ( of 21 December 1988 to approximate the laws of the Member States relating to trade marks ) must be interpreted as meaning that a trade mark may consist of a sign which is not in itself capable of being perceived visually, provided that it can be represented graphically, particularly by means of images, lines or characters, and that the representation is clear, precise, self-contained, easily accessible, intelligible, durable and objective.