ten things...

Peterborough
1 It was once the market town in Huntingdonshire and people would come from absolutely miles away over those fens. One, because it was flat and two, because they knocked out job lots of errea and admiral kit in various team colours.
2 The cathedral has such a disturbed history, having been attacked and rebuilt several times. It was similar to Posh trying to get into elusive play-off finals with an original pre-war squad.
3 In the thirties a number of clubs in East Anglia were still amateur and controlled by staid men of fixed minds. Those good people of Peterborough rose up and obviously - United then came into existence.
4 Posh were entered in the Midlands League but it wasn't until end of the fifties before they managed FL status. Of all these household names on football pools coupons they would now play, Gateshead were ones missing.
5 In 1967 Peterborough were investigated just like their semi-pro predecessors and financial irregularities would top their list. They were given a 19 point penalty which amazingly was enough to put them at foot of div3 - how strange.
6 In the seventies P'boro regained tier three and pushed on. They just failed on goal average to make that quantum leap into div2. Twelve months later they did change direction - er, dropping into div4.
7 Posh went into Administration in 1988, when an eighties property developer took a punt at a cheap price. Did these people really have interests of average fans at heart? Answers on a postcard to Trading Standards UK plc.
8 The nineties were a bit odd, for with league changes due to introduction of your actual Premiership, divisions were renumbered. For Posh it was like a nursery rhyme. When they were up they were up. When they were down they were down but in between...
9 That bloke from Pizza Express took over in time to keep 'em from extinction inside the 20th century. He'd cooked high street fast food and now turned to London Road's books.
10 Barry Fry liked the place so much he bought the company. Well the old luvvy, he would, wouldn't he?