What is the nickname of Walsall F.C.
"consisted of Walsall and Bloxwich, was expanded in 1966 to incorporate most of Darlaston and Willenhall, as well as small parts of Bilston and Wednesbury. The current Metropolitan Borough of Walsall was formed in 1974 when Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District was incorporated into Walsall. At the same time, Walsall was transferred from the historic county of Staffordshire to become part of the new West Midlands county. The Saddlers Centre, a modern shopping mall, opened in 1980, being refurbished within a decade. On 23 November 1981, an F1/T2 tornado touched down in Bloxwich and later moved over parts of Walsall town centre"
"Walsall Wood F.C. Walsall Wood Football Club are a football club based in Walsall Wood, near Walsall in the West Midlands, England. For the 2017–18 season, they are members of the , which sits at level 10 of the English football league system, following their promotion from the Midland League Division One. The team play their home games at Oak Park (Boston Bailey Group Ground) and are nicknamed ""The Wood"". The club was formed in the early part of the 20th century, although the exact date is unknown, the earliest surviving records being from 1915. The club's original name was"
"Pelsall Villa F.C. Pelsall Villa F.C. are a football club based in the village of Pelsall, near Walsall, West Midlands, England. They are nicknamed The Villains and play at Walsall Wood’s Oak Park. The team kit consists of black and red striped shirts, black shorts and black socks. Records from the Walsall Observer show that football was played in Pelsall as long ago as 1898. The two World Wars caused a temporary halt to proceedings, but in 1961 the club reformed and this heralded the beginning of Pelsall Villa as it is known today. Using changing facilities in the nearby"
"park. It opened in April 1980 and was refurbished in 1989/90. Saddlers Centre The Saddlers Centre is a shopping centre located in Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom. The shopping centre takes its name from the town's saddle manufacturing heritage and is also known as the nickname for the towns football team Walsall FC. The centre is spread over two floors with access to the top floor from Park Street, the towns main shopping area, while the lower floor is accessible from Bridge Street, next to Bradford Place Bus Station. The top floor of the complex is home to Walsall railway"
"Saddlers Centre The Saddlers Centre is a shopping centre located in Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom. The shopping centre takes its name from the town's saddle manufacturing heritage and is also known as the nickname for the towns football team Walsall FC. The centre is spread over two floors with access to the top floor from Park Street, the towns main shopping area, while the lower floor is accessible from Bridge Street, next to Bradford Place Bus Station. The top floor of the complex is home to Walsall railway station. Also attached to the centre is a three storey car"
"Walsall F.C. Walsall Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Walsall, West Midlands, England. The team play in League One, the third tier in the English football league system. The club was founded in 1888 as Walsall Town Swifts, an amalgamation of Walsall Town F.C. and Walsall Swifts F.C. The club was one of the founder members of the Second Division in 1892, but have spent their entire existence outside English football's top division; their highest league finish was fourteenth in Division Two in 1961–62. Their first match at Wembley Stadium was the 2015"
"Walsall Wood Ebenezer Primitive Methodists, stemming from its affiliation with a local Methodist chapel. It is from this that the team's former nickname derives. In the inter-war years they were considered amongst the strongest non-league clubs in the region, and won the Walsall Senior Cup in 1923 and the Walsall Senior League in 1946 and 1947. The club joined the Worcestershire Combination in 1951, winning the championship at the very first attempt and finishing as runners-up five times in the next decade. In 1982 they merged with Walsall Sportsco. and the new club became known as Walsall Borough F.C. and"
"Walsall borough with 27% of students gained five or more GCSEs at grade C or above. Luke “Four Fingers” Evans - (Ex-playboy and selfless Landlord to the masses) WBA’s biggest critic, and Owner of Bloxwich housing group. The school was closed in August 2011 due to continuously falling behind in exam results and Ofsted reports. However a new specialist engineering university technical college (UTC) was established on the former school site straight after the closure. The Black Country UTC was a joint run project between Walsall College and Wolverhampton University which closed in August 2015. There was no automatic transfer"
"Wally Tattersall Walter Scott Tattersall (4 September 1888 – 30 December 1968) was an English professional footballer who played for Mansfield Wesleyans, Warsop United, Moores Athletic (Shirebrook), Chesterfield Town, Mansfield Mechanics, Watford, Tottenham Hotspur, Shirebrook, Welbeck Colliery and Sutton Junction. Tattersall played for Non-league sides Mansfield Wesleyans, Warsop United and Moores Athletic before joining Chesterfield in 1907 where he appeared in three matches. He went on to play for Mansfield Mechanics and later Watford, for whom he played 75 times in all competitions. Watford sold winger Tattersall and wing half Arthur Grimsdell to Tottenham Hotspur in 1912, for a combined"
"Manager of the Month. They ended the season in ninth place, six points outside the play-offs. During a fine start to the 2013–14 season, Smith, affectionately nicknamed ""Ginger Mourinho"" by the Walsall fans, took the club to an unlikely promotion push. He masterminded a win at Molineux against local ""Black Country"" rivals, Wolverhampton Wanderers, and also ended winning streaks by table-toppers Leyton Orient and Brentford. The club could not sustain their promotion push however, and ended the campaign in 13th place. Smith released top-scorer Craig Westcarr at the end of the season, along with Troy Hewitt, Nicky Featherstone, James McQuilkin,"
"in 1894–95 the club failed to be re-elected to the Football League. At the start of the 1895 season the club moved to Hilary Street, later renamed Fellows Park. In 1896 they changed their name to Walsall F.C. and joined the Midland League. A year later, they returned to the Second Division, three teams having failed re-election in 1896. The team finished in sixth place in 1898–99, but once again failed re-election two years later, dropping back into the Midland League. A move to the Birmingham League followed in 1903, and in 1910, the club were elected to the Southern"
"such that an autobiography was commissioned to coincide with his testimonial season; ghosted by Walsall programme editor, Andrew Poole, it proved to be a relative success with fans of Walsall and of West Ham United. Walker's successes at Walsall included promotion from Division Three in 1995 and from Division Two in 1999 and again in 2001. He was nicknamed ""Wacka"" by the Walsall fans. West Ham acquired Walker's services from Walsall on a Bosman free transfer in the summer of 2004. Walker, who provided competition for Stephen Bywater, was the second choice goalkeeper at Upton Park but gained a regular"
"Fellows Park Fellows Park was a football stadium in Walsall, England. It was the home ground of Walsall F.C. from 1896 until 1990, when the team moved to the Bescot Stadium. Fellows Park was situated about a quarter of a mile away from the club's present ground, The Bescot Stadium, at the junction of Hilary Street and Wallows Lane. The club moved to the ground from West Bromwich Road in 1896. Until 1930 it was named Hilary Street, at which point it was renamed after H.L. Fellows, a club director. Walsall's record home attendance was at Fellows Park, when 25,453"
"of Walsall Football Club was built at the junction of Hillary Street and Wallows Lane in 1903 and was home of the club for 87 years, until relocation to the Bescot Stadium on nearby Bescot Crescent in 1990. Fellows Park was then demolished and rebuilt as a Morrisons store. Caldmore Green is the centre of the Caldmore Shopping area with Caldmore Housing HQ base. The area is home to restaurants and fashion and jewellery outlets. In addition, Caldmore Housing annually host The Caldmore Carnival which is based on different themes with the most recent being space. Many late 19th and"
"First Division that season, and the cup defeat to Third Division North side Walsall is still regarded as one of the greatest upsets in FA Cup history. In 1958, following a reorganisation of the Football League, Walsall became founder members of the Fourth Division. Under the management of Bill Moore, the club achieved successive promotions, scoring 102 goals on their way to winning Division Four in 1959–60 and finishing as Division Three runners-up in 1960–61 to reach the second tier of English football for the first time since the early 1900s. Players such as Bill 'Chopper' Guttridge, Tony Richards and"
"Walsall, Watford and Huddersfield Town. In August 1942, he made a single guest appearance for Dundee United in Scotland. After the war, he joined Huddersfield Town in November 1945, where he made 67 appearances before returning to Scunthorpe United in August 1948. In 1974, he was in charge of ""the Iron"" for three games while a new manager was being approached. He died in 1985 in Scunthorpe. His son John also played for Scunthorpe United. Jeff Barker (footballer) Jeffrey Barker (16 October 1915 in Scunthorpe, England – 1985 in Scunthorpe) was a professional footballer. He started his career at Goole"
"kit was also changed to a blue and white strip for an historic match against an all-conquering First Division Arsenal in the FA Cup in January 1933; the ""Saddlers"" achieved a famous 2–0 victory, and Slade's entire front line that day had previously played for Coventry. It was reported that the Arsenal paid more for their player's boots than Slade did for his entire team. The match is described by the Walsall F.C. website as ""one of the most significant days in our history"". The club finished fifth in the Third Division North in 1932–33, and fourth in 1933–34, however"
"Walsall RFC Walsall Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Walsall in the West Midlands, playing home games at the Broadway Ground, Delves Road. The club operates four senior men's teams, a colts side as well as a full range of junior teams (ages 6–17). The men's 1st XV currently plays in Midlands 2 West (North). Walsall RFC was formed in 1922. Historically part of Staffordshire they were first members of the North Midlands Rugby Football Union before joining the Staffordshire Rugby Union as it became established in the 1960s. In the 1970s and early 1980s"
"ever league position playing in tier 7 (Midlands 2 West (North)). Walsall RFC Walsall Rugby Football Club is an English rugby union team based in Walsall in the West Midlands, playing home games at the Broadway Ground, Delves Road. The club operates four senior men's teams, a colts side as well as a full range of junior teams (ages 6–17). The men's 1st XV currently plays in Midlands 2 West (North). Walsall RFC was formed in 1922. Historically part of Staffordshire they were first members of the North Midlands Rugby Football Union before joining the Staffordshire Rugby Union as it"
"League. With the expansion of the Football League after World War I, Walsall became a founding member of the Third Division North in 1921. Walsall's highest ""home"" attendance was set in 1930, when they played in of front of 74,646 fans against Aston Villa in the FA Cup Fourth Round Although a home match for Walsall, the tie was played at their opponents' Villa Park ground, and it remains the highest attendance that Walsall have ever played in front of. In 1933, Walsall won 2–0 in the FA Cup against Arsenal at Fellows Park. Arsenal went on to win the"
"the greater part of the past decade in the national leagues, the 2000-01 season would be a difficult one for the club. Walsall struggled through the campaign finishing 11th out of the 14 teams in National Division 3 North. Usually, this would have been enough to have kept them safe but an outbreak of foot and mouth caused havoc in the far north of the country, affecting the most northerly sides, Aspatria and Tynedale, who finished in the bottom two positions, with both sides only playing 18 games apiece, six short of the Midlands side. This led to the RFU"
"the rallying cries of the ex-England international, and the backing of the town, Walsall were ultimately relegated, agonisingly by a single goal, despite a 3–2 victory over Rotherham Utd at home, on the season's final day. Despite the club's relegation and no previous managerial experience, Merson was immediately appointed as full-time manager of the club in May 2004. Although initially a popular choice, a poor season almost ended in successive relegations. However, an inspired loan signing Julian Joachim spurred the team on to winning all five of their final games of the 2004–05 season and 14th place in League One,"
"leg 2–0 defeat in front of 19,591 at Fellows Park saw Walsall lose the tie 4–2 on aggregate. This cup run saw Walsall famously only 90 minutes away from playing in Europe, which was once the name of a Fanzine, unfortunately no longer running. Walsall narrowly missed out on promotion to the Second Division in the same season. In 1986 plans were announced to move Walsall to Birmingham, to groundshare with Birmingham City. The town rallied behind Barrie Blower, who led a campaign to save the club. Walsall were subsequently bought by millionaire entrepreneur and racehorse owner Terry Ramsden and"
"counted."" ""Correct as of 6 May 2018."" Competitions Attendances Scores Players Sequences Football League Third Division (now League One) • Runners-Up (2): 1960–61, 1998–99 • Play-Off Winners (2): 1987–88, 2000–01 Football League Fourth Division (now League Two) • Champions (2): 1959–60, 2006–07 • Runners-Up (2): 1979–80, 1994–95 Birmingham Senior Cup • Winners (4): 1880–81 (as Walsall Swifts), 1896–97, 1897–98, 1993–94 Staffordshire Senior Cup • Winners (4): 1881–82, 1884–85 (both Walsall Town), 1928–29, 1967–68 Walsall Senior Cup • Winners (5): 1876–77 1877–78 1888–79 (all as Walsall Swifts), 2014–15, 2016–17 Walsall F.C. Walsall Football Club is a professional association football club based"
"involved in a relegation scrap. For the 2017–18 season Wood are managed by former Walsall player Gary Birch. The club's badge incorporates the winding gear of a coal mine, symbolising the area's coal mining tradition, a cross, representing the club's original affiliation with a Methodist chapel, a castle, representing a castle which once stood in the area, and an oak tree, symbolising the ""Shire Oak"", a former local landmark after which Oak Park is named. The club's motto is ""Pro Bono Silvae"" which is Latin for ""for the good of the wood"". The Oak Park ground boasts a stand which"
"second leg Walsall reach the Football League Trophy final and for the first time in their 127-year history play at Wembley Stadium where they were beaten 2–0 by Bristol City on Sunday 22 March 2015. Topping a disappointing season for the club where they managed to become clear of relegation just two games before the end of the season, a 3–3 draw with promotion play-off side, Swindon. Walsall started the 2015–16 season well, with Smith being named as League One Manager of the Month and Rico Henry named youth player of the month for August as the club ended the"
"Walsall, joining on loan in March 1993 before signing permanently the following year. He played a key role in the Saddlers winning promotion to Division Two in 1994–95. He then joined Peterborough United, followed by Birmingham City, whom O'Connor represented in the 2001 Football League Cup Final against Liverpool, which Birmingham lost in a penalty shootout. O'Connor re-joined Walsall in 2002, but his contract was not renewed at the end of the 2002–03 season. He then signed for Shrewsbury Town in July 2003, before ending his playing career with Kidderminster Harriers. He was player-manager of Halesowen Town from December 2006"
"spectators were present for the team's Second Division match against Newcastle United on 29 August 1961. By March 1988, the club was planning to build a new stadium at nearby Bescot Crescent. Within two years, construction work was underway at the new stadium site and the last league game at Fellows Park was played on 1 May 1990, when Walsall, in the process of their second successive relegation which took them into the Football League Fourth Division, drew 1–1 at home to Rotherham United, with Andy Dornan scoring the last league goal at the ground – his only goal in"
"goal scored by Walsall defender Matt Bryant after 65 seconds. The first goal scored for Walsall at the stadium was by Stuart Rimmer. Originally both ends of the ground were standing areas, and the capacity of the ground was 11,104. However, capacity was reduced to around 9,800 in 1992, when the away supporters terrace was filled with seats. Following an extension to the Tile Choice Stand (formerly known as the Gilbert Alsop Stand), during the 2002–03 season, it is now an all-seater stadium, with a capacity of 11,300. A sponsorship deal with Banks's Brewery in 2007 saw the name officially"
"Mick Halsall Michael Halsall (born 21 July 1961) is an English former footballer who played as a midfielder. He scored 42 goals in 389 appearances in the Football League, playing for Birmingham City, Carlisle United, Grimsby Town and Peterborough United. He has also worked as a manager with Peterborough United and as caretaker manager at Walsall and at Wolverhampton Wanderers youth academy, as professional lead coach. In August 2014 he joined Notts County, and has had two spells there as caretaker manager. Halsall was born in Bootle, Merseyside. He began his football career as an apprentice with Liverpool in 1977"
"Bescot Stadium Bescot Stadium, also known as the Banks's Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Walsall, England, and the current home ground of Walsall Football Club. It was built in 1989–90, by GMI Construction, with a reported build cost of £4.5m. The stadium replaced the club's previous ground, Fellows Park, which was located a quarter of a mile away and was the club's home for 94 years. Following the takeover of Walsall FC by Terry Ramsden in 1986, plans were drawn up for the club to move from its antiquated Fellows Park stadium to a new site"
"Bescot Stadium Bescot Stadium, also known as the Banks's Stadium for sponsorship purposes, is a football stadium in Walsall, England, and the current home ground of Walsall Football Club. It was built in 1989–90, by GMI Construction, with a reported build cost of £4.5m. The stadium replaced the club's previous ground, Fellows Park, which was located a quarter of a mile away and was the club's home for 94 years. Following the takeover of Walsall FC by Terry Ramsden in 1986, plans were drawn up for the club to move from its antiquated Fellows Park stadium to a new site"
"The old stadium was demolished soon after its closure and a Morrisons supermarket built on the site. Fellows Park Fellows Park was a football stadium in Walsall, England. It was the home ground of Walsall F.C. from 1896 until 1990, when the team moved to the Bescot Stadium. Fellows Park was situated about a quarter of a mile away from the club's present ground, The Bescot Stadium, at the junction of Hilary Street and Wallows Lane. The club moved to the ground from West Bromwich Road in 1896. Until 1930 it was named Hilary Street, at which point it was"