Ten Things...

Wrexham
1 There was a cricket team across the English border that thought they'd have a go at football. Being Welsh they played more than eleven a side. Well it was 1873 after all, so before proper substitution might not count.
2 Ten years later they were expelled by the FA but a new outfit called Wrexham Olympic took over. They got changed for matches in the Turf Hotel, although this didn't remotely break any rules of propitious conduct apparently.
3 Before WW1 part of the old racecourse became a permanent association ground. This was a good idea and would help prevent horses loose on the pitch or by comparison, footballers losing at bookies pitches.
4 Wrexham kicked-off in third division north in 1921 after playing in the Birmingham & District League. Presumably they didn't consider themselves Welsh dirty northern bastards.
5 By the time WW2 arrived Wrexham had won Welsh Cup honours but nowt over in England. They then made up most of the local Home Guard muster rather than ranks in their elite national regiment.
6 The fifties and sixties were a blur of mediocrity either in div3 or div4. They were so average everybody else forgot they even er, knew they were.
7 Wrexham entered the European Cup-Winners Cup eight times over 25 years from 1972. Visiting teams from the continent must have felt like Romans reaching extremities of the empire when versus warlike tribesmen.
8 Following a rise to div2 in 1978, a subsequent fall into div4 by 1983 meant almost a decade of lowest league soccer. Wrexham would have joined the Conference but for FL restructuring, proving they were bloody lucky as an 'international' club.
9 By 1993 they were back in div2, which of course was still third tier. Suggesting there was icing on their cake even at that level.
10 A new millennium appeared and at first, light of an encouraging new dawn. Then dark days of Administration and those black FA threats of over 100 years previously could finally kill off the Red Dragons.