Yeovil Town F.C.
Yeovil Town Football Club is an English football club based in the town of Yeovil, Somerset, England. The only Somerset-based club in the Football League, they play their home matches at Huish Park, built in 1990 on the site of an old army camp and named after their former home the Huish, itself known for its pitch, which had an 8 feet (2.4 m) sideline to sideline slope. The club plays in League One after having won the League Two championship in 2004–05.
The club was founded in 1895 but took 108 years to enter the Football League when they were promoted from the Football Conference as champions in 2003. They became one of the most successful non-league team in the FA Cup – having defeated major Football League teams, most famously Sunderland in the 4th Round in 1949, going on to play in front of more than 81,000 against Manchester United at Maine Road. Since entering the Football League FA Cup results have deteriorated having only reached the 3rd Round twice including, in 2004, against Liverpool for which the club released a record prior to the tie sold only in shops in the town, "Yeovil True" reached #36 in the UK Singles Chart. The only other successful performance since then was in 2005 when they reached the 4th Round drawn away against then Premier League side Charlton Athletic where they narrowly lost 3–2.
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“If I am to be a thoroughfare, I prefer that it be of the mountain brooks, the Parnassian streams, and not the town sewers. There is inspiration, that gossip which comes to the ear of the attentive mind from the courts of heaven. There is the profane and stale revelation of the barroom and the police court. The same ear is fitted to receive both communications. Only the character of the hearer determines to which it shall be open, and to which closed.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)