10 things...

Southampton
1 In 1016 Cnut (refer to spellcheck) was offered the crown of England there. Perhaps it tells you more about those damp, hairy inhabitants than historical south coast tide times.
2 Mayflower set out from there to America in 1620. See how a wild idea can blossom into peninsular passenger port potential.
3 There are a lot of open parks and a Titanic memorial. This is bizarrely in the exposed NW passage but is always kept ice free in winter.
4 A fan married a girl in St Marys church. After seven years they experienced Itchen which became a Test, Solent their love as neither were Saints.
5 Their stadium is on the site of a former gas works. However, pressure had increased after 100 years at the Dell, so came as a natural release to a very warming fairy story.
6 Saints won the FA Cup in that long hot summer of '76. It left a very dry taste in 11 of Man Utd's mouths.
7 Channon, Le Tissier and Gabriel. Not champagne, vintage red or an angelic white but local heroes they'd liked bottled decades ago.
8 Club captain and subsequent manager Alan Ball had an extremely high er, profile for a very vocal position or two.
9 You may remember Keegan & Shearer, or McMenemy & Souness - away the Geordie lads down south.
10 Then again Lowe, Redknapp & Woodward, presumably not a union made in rugby football.