Ten things...

Swindon
1 It was just a small town in Whitehorse Vale and some would say Spartan. Then the railways came through heading for Great Western destinations and brought with it via Paddington, mobs of rampaging away clubs fans from London.
2 In 1881 Spartans cricket club formed a football team and somehow Swindon Town FC developed. But don't suppose the County Ground had everything to do with it.
3 By 1896 Town were in the Southern League and had moved to beside the cricket pitch as now. To get out of financial troubles they entered the FA Cup and trainloads of Pikeys turned up to watch.
4 Not only railways expanded and in 1920 the Football League introduced third division south and Swindon joined. Unfortunately it was a return ticket to nowhere, as they sought re-election hoping easy rail access would help the cause.
5 In the fifties Robins tried to emulate Busby Babes and even had facsimile red & white kit. Hey, those local kids grew up and only got 'em promoted at last.
6 They played in the Anglo-Italian cup after a little incident at Wembley in 1969. No, we didn't believe it either - google League Cup shock.
7 Swindon were a selling club and hero Don Rogers went to Palace. They'd reached a glass ceiling, then cracked and crashed back to div4.
8 Another decade and somebody built the M4 past the door and invented silicon valley. After that it was chips with every winning away trip as they motored on up to div2.
9 Ossie Ardiles turned 'em into Argentina but dodgy deals by formerly connected officials plunged the club into a third world existence. At hands of a South American style FA dictatorship too.
10 Town made it into renamed div1, now called the Premiership and Hoddle was responsible. Chelsea took a fancy to him and really, they'd have had to send Ken Bates one way down GWR tracks with a 'development plan' to make it work for Swindon.