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Location:
Former Coal mining and still Market Town in North East Derbyshire - just past the Peak District, turn right before you end up in Sheffield. Their ground (Saltergate) is a bit of a mouldering old relic, but exudes loads of antique charm. They're rumoured to be moving to some new fangled space age thingy soon.

Reasons to Dislike Them:
1. DERBYSHIRE - well I ask you - are they Midlands or are they Northerners? How can you trust em?
2. For some obscure reason, quite a lot of their fans really dislike us. Maybe it's to do with them beating us at Wembley in 1995, but failing to understand that nowadays we couldn't GIVE a toss.
3. They hogged all the media limelight with that cup run they had a couple of years back (While the Might Whites, of course, were breaking records in the league and couldn't get a mention).

Reasons to tolerate them:
1. Their situation is remarkably similar to our own - small town near a big conurbation, looked down upon by their big city neighbours, etc.
2. In the past three years they've had to watch while we have leapt up from a division below them to a division higher than them - very frustrating
3. Their local MP is TONY BENN - yeah, THAT Tony Benn. Wonder if they've heard of David Chaytor?
4, Chesterfield's a bazzin little place for a booze up - loads of good pubs. You might fancy it instead of Sheffield next March.
Why not take your Wembley 95 flags along and really confuse the natives.

Trivia:
Chesterfield's main (only?) claim to fame is the fact that the spire of the church looks like it was built by someone with an almighty hangover. You can also buy a brand of ciggies called "Chesterfields" (usually shortened to "Chesties" when I were a lad, for reasons which became obvious as soon as you lit one up) - but I don't think they're actually made there.