Across
- 2. Creepy but never played them in league or cup (7,4)
- 4. Current league team we’ve never played - for wheel (6)
- 7. League newcomers (2019) who we’ve never met Butt could happen one day.
- 8. And Wise men say we never played this fishy-nicknamed team who only dropped out of the league last season after 15 years
- 9. Another northern Phoenix club whose previous entity fell out of the league in ‘99 thanks to on-loan goalkeeper Jimmy Glass scoring for Carlisle and keeping them up (11,8)
- 11. Recently yo-yoing from National to League and back again. Players often photographed in local KFC contrary to the club’s gastro-ethos (6,5)
- 12. Dropped out of league in 2000. Wound up in 2010. Phoenix club now in the 7th tier National League North (6)
- 14. I’m told it’s one of the most polluted places in the UK. Due to it sitting in a natural, smoke-accumulating, recess and being close to London. Dropped out of the league in ‘92 (9,4)
Down
- 1. They’ve never been in the league but we meet them for the first time soon in the London Senior Cup. No idea if they are dark and satanic. (4,6,5,5)
- 3. Currently the highest placed league side we’ve never met. John Cooper Clarke’s Evidently Chickentown is about this town (9)
- 5. Though we’ve played this club many times we never played them at Wembley in any kind of dairy-based football competition. And don’t believe otherwise (6,6)
- 6. Three seasons recently in the league for this South London team. Fined over the FA Cup ‘piegate’ fiasco. (6,6)
- 9. Now in the 6th tier, this Merseyside side were a league side for over 50 years before dropping out of the league in ‘78. And guess what … we never played them.
- 10. A posh part of Yorkshire. That should narrow it down
- 13. Last in the league in 1960. Almost returned in 2014 but lost in the play-off. Most famous supporter is a big fairy.