The four football clubs in the U.K with no place names incorperated?

[fduggan]

Hi everyone,a friend mentioned yesterday that back in the 80's there was a quiz question doing the rounds about 'which were the only 4 clubs in England and Scotland which didn't have a place name in the title i.e Leeds,Manchester,Sheffield.
Is this still the case? He was a publican in Liverpool at the time and by the time the quiz got going the last thing he wanted to know was that!! By the way he's very good with his memory so it would be nice to get one up!!

[ronnietoon]

west brom from the top of my head

[ronnietoon]

i was wrong there

[Frank97]

Arsenal ?

[craft1948]

Arsenal?

[Sipowicz]

Crystal palace.

[plowter]

Celtic

[dundurn]

Queen of the South and St Johnstone although QotS is a nickname for Dumfries and Perth historically was known as St John's Toun of Perth.

[maggiebee]

Don't know about England, but suggest there are more in Scotland:

Rangers (could in theory be Glasgow Rangers)
Celtic (Glasgow)
St Mirren (Paisley)
St Johnstone (Perth)
Heart of Midlothian (Edinburgh)
Hibernian (Edinburgh)
Ross County (Dingwall)

These are Premier League clubs and there are no doubt more in the 1st and 2nd divisions.

[plowter]

Naw - it's Celtic Football Club

How about:

Hibernian - Edinburgh
Queen of the South - Dumfries
Albion Rovers - Stirling

[doctordb]

Port vale.

[ichkeria]

Hardly Ross County, surely (!) They're named after the county.
It depends what you mean by "place names" really. Crystal Palace and (Woolwich) Arsenal were both places. Not sure even Hibernian counts (named after Hibernia), or Port Vale as it was named after a place (or sorts)

I'd say Celtic, Rangers (if you omit the "Glasgow", which isn't part of their official names anyway) , St Mirren and Albion Rovers in Scotland come pretty close. It's far more common for teams abroad to be named after things other than places. The Georgian team Dila is named after a poem by Stalin, which - whatever you may think of Stalin - is quite cool I think :-)

[gollob]

must be Queens Park Rangers and Arsenal

[ichkeria]

Queen's Park is a suburb of NW London ...

[ojread2]

Aston Villa ?

[ojread2]

Queen of the South

[gollob]

in england there is only one ---port vale although QPR were certainly not named after Queens Park near Kilburn which is 12 miles away

[ojread2]

no one said QPR were named after Queens Park nr Kilburn
Queens park is a place so they cannot be part of the answer

[VHG]

>>>Aston Villa ?

Aston is a suberb of Birmingham.