h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I'm not sure that irony means what you think it means and don't forget that these were the days of 'election' in the Football League; it's certainly the only time that Arsenal have beaten Spurs 18-8!

I think you may be correct that I, like a lot of people, don't fully comprehend the meaning of irony. I must confess until a few years ago I thought it meant something like goldy or silvery only made of iron.

van smeiter.

You have increased the sum total of my knowledge, I had not been aware of the "election" possibility.

"The League decided that the clubs in the promotion and relegation spots should meet in "test matches", a descriptive enough term borrowed from cricket where the first international matches to be labelled as test matches took place in 1861/62. The test matches ran for six seasons, but were not regarded as particularly fair or successful and were replaced by automatic promotion and relegation in 1898/99. The League rules still allowed for direct election into the first division;"