10 things..........
Plymouth
1 Those Elizabethans liked Plymouth and ships. They used to get down at the Armada Centre and attempt to 'light my fire', in floating around at night.
2 In the Barbican area they used to distill Gin. Trust them old rum sodden senior service sailors to go all wavy navy instead, when given a final shore posting.
3 Drake's statue is where he famously lingered when playing bowls. Hey Hoe, it was probably a Sound idea, as he still had to jack his end up.
4 In 1898 a Devon rugby football club named Albion, gave up a pitch in Central Park. Plymouth moved in and were uniquely called Argyle - though we don't mind, do we?
5 During WW2 their Home Park ground was bombed and destroyed. Who would want to flatten a football field, apart from groundsmen?
6 Name one other team that plays in green, white and black.
7 Paul Mariner - can you guess the sea-going connection? Clue - it might just be something to do with Pilgrims.
8 Plymouth got three quarters of a million for Mickey Evans, when land-lubber Neil Warnock sold him - then jumped ship himself.
9 It took a Scot to get 'em to the Championship. However, we don't know if he was a decendant of Highlander's from Argyll & Sutherland, stationed there 100 years before.
10 A Cornish beauty attracted their big front man across the Tamar Bridge, with similar promises to Devonport delights. He didn't realise there was a toll to pay and almost developed a case of Torpoint.
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