Ten things...

Stockport
1 In the 13th century they had a bridge across the Mersey. It caused this market town to be popular because punters from Manchester could come over and pick up replica shirts at prices with a comparable drop.
2 The railway viaduct was so high, occasionally away fans used to be trained out of town in cattle trucks after defeat at Stockport. This prevented them jumping from carriages in a depressed mood on leaving the division's regular whipping boys.
3 On Heaton Norris Recreation Ground members of the Wycliffe Congregational Chapel played their association football. By 1891 they were known as Stockport County, which was at least simpler to understand.
4 From 1900 they entered the Football League as a successful Lancashire League side - even though they then lived in Cheshire.
5 Once County lodged permanently at Edgeley Park, things looked up. Their landlords, a local rugby club went bust and how lucky to inherit that place, as somebody built a motorway network just up the road to everywhere else.
6 Before WW1 they were a div2 club but after the war, slipped into division three north in 1921. It seemed to be their fate, as with more passing decades and a second world war they remained stuck in div3.
7 In the sixties the Hatters were holding out upturned headgear for some extra dosh. They sold freehold to the council and leased it back. As a div4 outfit they needed a big hand and an even bigger hat.
8 Greater Manchester gobbled 'em up and by mid eighties were hit by a double whammy of ground safety. Enter Thatcher's era property developers to er, 'help'.
9 A Uruguayan came in as manager and 'si senor, eet ez just like watching Brazil' in the nineties. Well, County around then anyway but Brazil anytime.
10 Y2k came and eventually in 100 long years made div1 at last, hitting those dizzy heights. So they alarmingly dispensed with yet another successful manager because rich chairmen can do that on a seconds whim. But then freefall...