Post by another_ruined_saturday on Jan 29, 2017 15:20:06 GMT
Over to Another Ruined Saturday for this week....
BK Hacken
BK (Bollklubben) Hacken are based on an island in Gothenburg, and are nicknamed ‘The Wasps‘, for the same reason Watford are nicknamed ‘The Hornets’ Formed in 1940 (a fantastic time for forming a football club in Europe) by 14 and 15 year olds who wanted to play in the national league system, their name comes from the huge hedge (hack) that used to surround their ground.
You will note from the conveniently positioned no. 17 that as well as chest, sleeve, shoulder and front of shorts sponsors, they also have upper back, back of shorts, and buttock sponsors; the F1 cars of the football world.
Hacken have spent most of their time outside the Allsvenskan (which sounds to me like the place Swedish heroes go when they die), but have been in the Swedish top flight for most of the last decade. They have even reached the UEFA Cup first round in 2007-08, but narrowly lost 8-1 to Spartak Moscow. They have reached the qualifying rounds several times since, losing to the might of Cork City and UN Kaerjeng 97.
They play in the 6,500 capacity Bravida Arena, and the main reason for selection here is that they have the coolest floodlights of all time:
FC Hoverla Uzhhorod
Mount Hoverla, in the Carpathians, is the highest mountain in Ukraine at 6,762 feet. The mountains feature prominently on FC Hoverla Uzhhorod’s badge. As any County fan who went to the Shay on Saturday will know, they should also have featured on Halifax’s.
Ooh…mountains and a rampant bear. f**k that away trip…
Close to the Slovakian and Hungarian borders, Uzhhorod has been somewhat promiscuous in its affiliations:
Great Moravia
Principality of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary (crown land of the Habsburg Monarchy)
Austrian Empire
then, even in the 20th Century,
Austro Hungarian Empire until 1918
Czechoslovakia until 1938
Hungary until 1944
Soviet Union until 1991
Ukraine since 1991.
Have fun learning all those national anthems…
Perhaps reflecting the turmoil above, the club has had the following names (deep breath):
1925 - SC Rusj Uzhorod
1939 - SC Rusj Ungvar
1946 - Spartak
1961 - Verkhovyna
1971 - Hoverla
1982 - Zakarpattia
1997 - Verkhovyna
1999 - Zakarpattia
2011 - Hoverla-Zakarpattia
2012 - Hoverla
Hoverla probably works best, because it fits a lot of terrace tunes, although you can get ‘Zakarpattia’ into the ‘where’s your mother gone’ bit of ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’.
Ukrainian champions in 1950, their most recent success, as apparently endorsed by Stalin:
Wiki lists their home kit as all light blue, but most of the photos appear to be all white. Aaagh…..there’s that upright bear…
They played at the 10,200 capacity Avanhard Stadium, which in contrast to Hacken has toothbrushes for floodlights:
Oh yeah - I said ‘played’ because they apparently dissolved after last season. The final posting on their website, haphazardly translated by google from the original (sample ‘ зв'язку з інформацією, яка останнім часом з"явилася в ЗМІ') stated that contrary to reports in the media and by the FFU, they were doing everything possible to stabilise the position of the club, following the FFU statement that the club was financially insolvent and did not meet the financial criteria for participation in the Ukranian Premier League next (this) season.
Goodbye Hoverla, I’ve only just heard of you, and now you have drifted away like so much of the ephemera in my life.
Yeah I know that got a bit long, so to the delightfully named Hardbody FC of Zimbabwe, about whom I know next to nothing, thanks to their lack of a Wikipedia page.
Formed in 2004, they play on the Coventry Road, and could presumably therefore intrude on the M69 derby.
They play in the 5,000 capacity Ascot Stadium and compete in the second division of Zimbabwean football.
The team? Well braving the ‘hardbody’ search, you mostly come up with
or
As they play in all red, I desperately hoped that this was a Hardbody player tackling from behind:
but it turned out to be the brilliantly christened Crybert Muvuti from Harare City. Even more brilliantly the caption reads that the players “tussle for possession” !
In the end, the only image I found of Hardbody FC on the internet was this:
which is a little disappointing.
BK Hacken
BK (Bollklubben) Hacken are based on an island in Gothenburg, and are nicknamed ‘The Wasps‘, for the same reason Watford are nicknamed ‘The Hornets’ Formed in 1940 (a fantastic time for forming a football club in Europe) by 14 and 15 year olds who wanted to play in the national league system, their name comes from the huge hedge (hack) that used to surround their ground.
You will note from the conveniently positioned no. 17 that as well as chest, sleeve, shoulder and front of shorts sponsors, they also have upper back, back of shorts, and buttock sponsors; the F1 cars of the football world.
Hacken have spent most of their time outside the Allsvenskan (which sounds to me like the place Swedish heroes go when they die), but have been in the Swedish top flight for most of the last decade. They have even reached the UEFA Cup first round in 2007-08, but narrowly lost 8-1 to Spartak Moscow. They have reached the qualifying rounds several times since, losing to the might of Cork City and UN Kaerjeng 97.
They play in the 6,500 capacity Bravida Arena, and the main reason for selection here is that they have the coolest floodlights of all time:
FC Hoverla Uzhhorod
Mount Hoverla, in the Carpathians, is the highest mountain in Ukraine at 6,762 feet. The mountains feature prominently on FC Hoverla Uzhhorod’s badge. As any County fan who went to the Shay on Saturday will know, they should also have featured on Halifax’s.
Ooh…mountains and a rampant bear. f**k that away trip…
Close to the Slovakian and Hungarian borders, Uzhhorod has been somewhat promiscuous in its affiliations:
Great Moravia
Principality of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary
Kingdom of Hungary (crown land of the Habsburg Monarchy)
Austrian Empire
then, even in the 20th Century,
Austro Hungarian Empire until 1918
Czechoslovakia until 1938
Hungary until 1944
Soviet Union until 1991
Ukraine since 1991.
Have fun learning all those national anthems…
Perhaps reflecting the turmoil above, the club has had the following names (deep breath):
1925 - SC Rusj Uzhorod
1939 - SC Rusj Ungvar
1946 - Spartak
1961 - Verkhovyna
1971 - Hoverla
1982 - Zakarpattia
1997 - Verkhovyna
1999 - Zakarpattia
2011 - Hoverla-Zakarpattia
2012 - Hoverla
Hoverla probably works best, because it fits a lot of terrace tunes, although you can get ‘Zakarpattia’ into the ‘where’s your mother gone’ bit of ‘Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep’.
Ukrainian champions in 1950, their most recent success, as apparently endorsed by Stalin:
Wiki lists their home kit as all light blue, but most of the photos appear to be all white. Aaagh…..there’s that upright bear…
They played at the 10,200 capacity Avanhard Stadium, which in contrast to Hacken has toothbrushes for floodlights:
Oh yeah - I said ‘played’ because they apparently dissolved after last season. The final posting on their website, haphazardly translated by google from the original (sample ‘ зв'язку з інформацією, яка останнім часом з"явилася в ЗМІ') stated that contrary to reports in the media and by the FFU, they were doing everything possible to stabilise the position of the club, following the FFU statement that the club was financially insolvent and did not meet the financial criteria for participation in the Ukranian Premier League next (this) season.
Goodbye Hoverla, I’ve only just heard of you, and now you have drifted away like so much of the ephemera in my life.
Yeah I know that got a bit long, so to the delightfully named Hardbody FC of Zimbabwe, about whom I know next to nothing, thanks to their lack of a Wikipedia page.
Formed in 2004, they play on the Coventry Road, and could presumably therefore intrude on the M69 derby.
They play in the 5,000 capacity Ascot Stadium and compete in the second division of Zimbabwean football.
The team? Well braving the ‘hardbody’ search, you mostly come up with
or
As they play in all red, I desperately hoped that this was a Hardbody player tackling from behind:
but it turned out to be the brilliantly christened Crybert Muvuti from Harare City. Even more brilliantly the caption reads that the players “tussle for possession” !
In the end, the only image I found of Hardbody FC on the internet was this:
which is a little disappointing.
