41.   Merseyside has been enveloped by sporting influence more than almost anywhere else in Britain, due to its two major football clubs.

42.   Calm before the storm?

43.   Throughout his time in Darlington he maintained that the football club would never succeed while it played at Feethams.

44.   Middlesbrough football club is knocked out of the first round of the War Cup by Bradford.

45.   Chairmen of football clubs are only in the papers and on the radio when the team is up the creek.

46.   WHO has the longest continuous connection with a North-East football club, asks one of our regularly anonymous correspondents?

47.   WHO would put money into a football club?

48.   Football clubs and debt go hand in hand but few seem to go the same way as the hundreds of small businesses biting the dust every day.

49.   Few companies, of course, can call on the kind of sentiment which keeps football clubs in business when they should not be.

50.   Described by one resident as a rough area, Walton village lies in the shadow of both Everton and Liverpool football clubs.