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colchestersid
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 9:58 pm
Post subject: Name changes - Millwall Athletic > Millwall |
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I've tried searching online but information is either vague or clearly wrong - when did Millwall Athletic drop the "Athletic" and become just Millwall?
Answers seem to range from 1910 to 1925!!! |
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grantham
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 10:57 pm
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Throw you a curve ball, I have it as 1903/04 as the first season as just Millwall _________________ www.programmehut.com - The Internet Dealers
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Turin21041999
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New Forest
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Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2019 11:41 pm
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Millwall were still known as Millwall Athletic FC in the 1908/9 season. I suspect they dropped 'Athletic' when they relocated to south London. |
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grantham
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:12 am
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I've checked many sources and they all seem to agree in that they kept dipping in and out of being known as Athletic for a number of years at the start of the Century, this can be seen with many team photos of the era, some include Athletic whilst others don't
1903/04 seems to be the first time they didn't include Athletic, but that isn't the last. It appears very murky and even the official Millwall site doesn't give a definitive date _________________ www.programmehut.com - The Internet Dealers
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Rocky
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 12:43 am
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Rocky
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Paul Johnson
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:03 pm
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sure I had a 70-71 Leicester v Millwall Athletic programme? |
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Turvey Tyke
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:14 pm
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I have a Sheffield United v Millwall Athletic programme circa 1967 somewhere. |
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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:27 pm
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Perhaps a case of all these clubs failing to update their databases since 1913? |
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colchestersid
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Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2019 8:59 pm
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Thanks for everyone's help, the answer then is sometime between 1904 and 1971
You'd think they had something to hide |
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New Forest
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Posted: Fri Mar 29, 2019 5:39 pm
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Here is a Millwall programme from 31st October 1908. So officially they were Millwall Athletic until at least 1909. Throughout the programme they refer to themselves and Swindon, Northampton Brighton, all without the suffix.
What is odd is that Millwall do not mention the change on their website nor has anyone bothered to check it out for Wikipedia. |
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