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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ผ๐ป๐ฑ๐ผ๐ปโ๐ ๐ผ๐น๐ฑ๐ฒ๐๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐๐ฏ ๐๐ผ๐ผ๐ธ ๐ญ๐ฒ๐ฒ ๐๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ ๐๐ผ ๐ฟ๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฐ๐ต ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ ๐๐๐ฝ ๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ
When Cray Wanderers were founded in 1860, the London Underground did not exist, Abraham Lincoln was still to become US President and Italy had not yet become a unified country.
In the 166 years since then, London's oldest football club have never made it into the first round of the FA Cup - the oldest tournament in world football - until this season, when they ended their curse by winning four qualifying rounds.
So how did Cray Wanderers manage to break their FA Cup hoodoo at the 78th attempt? What happened when they met Stockport County in their big match at the weekend? And what links the club to Premier League champions Arsenal?
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3/211 - Algeria ๐ฉ๐ฟ
Weโre making videos telling a fascinating football story from all 211 countries in FIFA - in alphabetical order, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe! ๐
Follow us to watch the whole series and comment โpodcastโ for a DM with a link to the show, which tells extraordinary stories from across the world.
๐ฉ๐ฟ 3/211: ALGERIA ๐ฉ๐ฟ
This is our Patreon-exclusive series 'Tales from the 211', in which we are telling a short story from all 211 countries in FIFA in alphabetical order.
Up on the third episode is Algeria and JS Saoura, the club based in the Saharan city of Bรฉchar that has made the desert a tougher place to go than Stoke on a wet & windy Tuesday night.
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๐๏ธ How many of these European football clubs did you know were based on islands?
Follow us @SweeperPod for more niche football geography and check out our 5-star rated world football podcast via the link in our bio.
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๐ง๐ท Botafogo in 2023 - perhaps the only other bottle job comparable with Chinaโs Chengdu Rongcheng this seasonโฆ
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๐จ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฑ๐ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป๐ด ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฎ-๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ณ๐ ๐จ๐ณ
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๐จ๐ณ Chengdu Rongchengโs collapse in the 2026 Chinese Super League will go down in the history books!
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๐จ๐ณ ๐๐ผ๐ ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐ป๐ด๐ฑ๐ ๐ฅ๐ผ๐ป๐ด๐ฐ๐ต๐ฒ๐ป๐ด ๐ฏ๐น๐ฒ๐ ๐ฎ ๐ญ๐ฎ-๐ฝ๐ผ๐ถ๐ป๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ฎ๐ฑ ๐๐ถ๐๐ต ๐ฐ ๐ด๐ฎ๐บ๐ฒ๐ ๐น๐ฒ๐ณ๐ ๐จ๐ณ
At the start of October, Chengdu Rongcheng had been top of the Chinese Super League all season and were given a 99.9% chance of winning the title: they had a 12-point lead over challengers Dalian Yingbo with four games to go.
What then followed was a bottle job of stratospheric proportions: Chengdu lost all four of their remaining matches โ including a clash with Dalian, who stole in on H2H to claim their first-ever title.
So what were the most dramatic moments in the run-in? How on earth can Chengduโs collapse from such a comfortable position be explained? And what is it about this CSL season that means they may never have such a good opportunity again?
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