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The History of Carlisle United – How much do you know?

The History of Carlisle United – How much do you know?

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  1. Carlisle The Historic Borders City And Gateway to Scotland

    […] Carlisle United are currently Cumbria’s only Football League team and currently play in the fourth tier of the English game. If you’re a football fan and happen to be in Carlisle on a Saturday, between August and April, there’s a fifty per cent chance you will be able to catch one of their games. The club’s ground is at Brunton Park on Warwick Road (A69), with kick-off time usually being 3 pm. There’s also the odd mid-week game, more often than not on a Tuesday evening, with a 7-30 pm kick-off. You might not know, Liverpool’s legendary manager, Bill Shankly, played for Carlisle in the 1930s, and returned in 1949, for a couple of seasons as manager. He cited Carlisle’s achievement of promotion to the top flight of English football at the end of the 1973/74 season, as ‘’the greatest feat in the history of the game". Sadly, for Carlisle fans, if nobody else, they were relegated after one season despite actually being top of the table briefly! […]

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