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unusual facts about Football League Division Two



2003–04 Blackpool F.C. season

It was also their third consecutive season in the third tier of English football.

Fred Tully

He spent the next four seasons in the reserves before moving to the South coast to join Second Division Southampton in June 1933, to replace Johnny Arnold who had been transferred to Fulham the previous February.

Geoff Pike

He played for the Upton Park club for twelve years, gaining an FA Cup winners medal in 1980, a League Cup runners-up medal in 1981 and promotion back to the top tier, after finishing as Division Two champions in 1980–81.

Gerry O'Brien

It was not until November 1974 that he again had a long spell in the Southampton first team (now in the Second Division) with a run of fifteen games, this time replacing Paul Gilchrist.

Stuart Boam

He was immediately placed in Boro's starting lineup, and was named team captain ahead of the 1973–74 season, when Middlesbrough won the Second Division title.


see also

East Stirlingshire F.C.

The club was excluded from a wartime league in 1939 and was also denied re-entry to the Scottish Football League Division Two at the end of World War II, along with six other small league clubs.

Woodcote

The First team plays in the Reading Football League Senior Division; the Reserve team plays in the Reading Football League Division Two, and the Youth team plays in the South Chiltern Minor League Division One.