| STOKE | ..... City, one of the 12 founding members of the Football League in 1888 (5) |
| ASTONVILLA | Birmingham football club, founder member of the Football League in 1888 (5,5) |
| STERLING | ___ Morrison guitarist best known as one of the founding members of The Velvet Underground |
| JUSTICE | Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman are founding members of which League? (7) |
| NATO | Grp. with 12 founding members |
| TOMSK | Siberian city; one of the Wombles |
| LIVETWICE | Unfortunately, I owe unlovely city one of the 25Dn (3,4,4,5) |
| YOUONLY | Unfortunately, I owe unlovely city one of the 25Dn (3,4,4,5) |
| URUK | Sumerian name of a great Mesopotamian city, one of the world's first (4) |
| ABACK | A member of the football team by surprise (5) |
| BARROW | Club voted out of the Football League in 1972 (6) |
| ARSENAL | Football club based in Islington; the first club from the south of England to join the Football League, in 1893 (7) |
| HALLE | Surname of the distinguished pianist and conductor, knighted in 1888, who founded a famous orchestra in Manchester in 1858 (5) |
| HOBBY | Eurasian -; dragonfly-hunting falcon whose genus designation became the name of the football game Subbuteo (5) |
| INTER | _ _ _ _ _ Milan, common name of the football team which shares the San Siro Stadium with AC Milan (5) |
| PORTO | Estadio do Dragao is the home ground of the football club FC ... (5) |
| SPAIN | Identify this country which is chosen as a joint-host of the football World Cup in 2030. (5) |
| WOOLWICH | -- Arsenal, the first southern member of the Football League (8) |
| RICIN | (GKN) Highly toxic protein obtained from the seeds of the castor oil plant, discovered by German scientist Peter Hermann Stillmark in 1888 (5) |
| POSTS | Stops moving the uprights of the football goal (5) |
