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[Banana Banana]

What is the connection between the following:

Aberdeen
Birmingham City
Bournemouth
Dundee
Liverpool
Portsmouth
Reading
Sheffield
Southampton
Sunderland

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Sheffield? Sheffield FC, is that?

[Banana Banana]

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I am being precise. Not Sheffield Wednesday and not Sheffield United.

[Gerontophile]

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all are shitholes?

[Hot Orange]

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No, Aberdeen's quite nice, except the bit nearest the beach.

[Banana Banana]

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Well even if so, and Aberdeen isn't, they wouldn't be uniquely so.

[Banana Banana]

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The only clue I can think of is that

Birmingham City joined the list on 1st October 2007.
Aberdeen and Liverpool joined in 1903
Dundee joined in 1967
Sunderland, Bournemouth and Portsmouth in 1992
Reading in 1926
Sheffield in 1905
Southampton in 1952

[ursus arctos]

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Something about having a female chief executive?

(though Aberdeen and Liverpool would seem to have been awfully progressive in that regard)

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Ah, I've got it, I think. Southampton 1952 was the give away for me. I was there in 1992 when they celebrated the 40th anniversary.

[Banana Banana]

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You could always PM me. But sounds like you are sniffing the right bum.

[Banana Banana]

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It's not female chief executives

[ericcantona]

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Is it when each place became a University?

Should that really be in a football forum?!

[Banana Banana]

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Aberdeen has had a University since the 16th Century.

It is a football related question. And the list is unique and you are sniffing in the right direction.

[ursus arctos]

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Visits by the ruling monarch?

(as opposed to a random "royal")

[Banana Banana]

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Not monarchal visits.

[ale]

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achieved city status ?

[Guest]

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Formed a womens team?

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

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Has he not given it up yet, for ericcantona's answer?

I'm sure it's "football clubs who share a name with Universities". Believe it or not there is a Boormingham City University, as well as Birmingham University, the former probably handing out degrees in hair styling management, kitchen design management and tae-kwondo.

[Banana Banana]

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Or indeed these are a list of Universities that share a name with a football club.

Well done Rogin

[boris]

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There's a university in Sunderland? Whatever for?

[Sundeporino]

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To keep Rick Derris from the working week.

[rick derris]

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There's a university in Sunderland? Whatever for?

Oi!! I went there

edit: ah! alright there BC!