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3 unusual facts about Oakham United F.C.


Oakham United F.C.

Oakham United Football Club is a now defunct football club based in Sutton-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire.

An ambitious plan to move to nearby Huthwaite and change the name to Sutton Town (at the time the old Sutton Town was known as Ashfield United) never materialised and the club resigned from the league.

There was often some confusion from visiting teams with the club named after an area of nearby Mansfield and not the Rutland town of Oakham.


Sutton Town A.F.C.

Another now defunct club (1996), Oakham United, based close to the King's Mill Hospital on the boundary between Sutton and Mansfield, applied to change their name to Sutton Town when the previous club became defunct but were denied permission by the Nottinghamshire FA.


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