Thames Valley Royals proposal
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title:
Thames Valley Royals proposal
text:
The Thames Valley Royals proposal was a controversial and ultimately unsuccessful 1983 proposal to merge the Oxford United and Reading football clubs. Shortly before the end of the 1982–83 Football League season, Robert Maxwell, the then-owner and chairman of Oxford United Football Club, announced that he had made a deal with the owners of nearby Reading to amalgamate the two teams to create a new club he proposed to name "Thames Valley Royals". This appellation combined a loose term for the geo
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Unsuccessful proposal to merge football teams
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Valley_Royals_proposal
date created:
2013-08-27T08:55:43Z
date modified:
2024-08-31T02:38:32Z
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