Friday, 25 April 2014

ROTHERHAM UNITED v MK DONS

Founded as Rotherham in 1870, the club known as Rotherham Town joined the Football League in 1893 but were voted out in 1896. Rotherham County was elected to division two in 1919. In 1925 the clubs amalgamated and became United. The club moved away from Millmoor to the Don Valley Stadium in May 2008 after a dispute with the ground owner Ken Booth. In January 2010 the club purchased the former site of the Guest and Chrimes Foundry for the new stadium. Guest and Chrimes was a steelworks company, who made the iconic fire hydrants seen in New York City, often spouting water after being hit in a car chase.
The name of the stadium was announced as the 'New York Stadium' on 19 December 2011. The reason is that the area of land the stadium is sited is called New York. The club also hopes that the name could bring investment from New York City, as the New York Yankees chairman had recently said that he wanted to invest in an English football team.

Saturday's opposition MK Dons, of course, are more recent additions to the Football league, but the club had its origins in Wimbledon FC, the only club known to have won the FA Cup (1988) and FA Amateur Cup (1963) apart from the non pyramid Old Carthusians, the old boys of Charterhouse School. For true amateurs, they dominated the 1880-90s football scene, winning the FA Cup in 1881 and the FA Amateur Cup in 1894 and 1897, losing in the final to Middlesbrough Ironopolis in 1895.

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