Bootle

Why Bootle

Here is the argument for Bootle: England, England FA Trophy, and a ground called Hawthorne Road. A second team should give you something your first one cannot, and this is a different country's whole weather system.

• The calendar you inherit

  England FA Trophy is cold-weather football: mud in February, breath visible under the lights, and a fixture list that rewards anyone who sticks it out. England does not do easy neutrals.

• Modern era club

  Formed in 1953, so the whole story is documented, arguable and still being written. Join now and you were basically there from the start.

• Nothing won, everything to play for

  Trophyless, so far. That is the pitch: be there before the story turns.

• Home is home

  Hawthorne Road is the address. Learn the walk from the station to the turnstile and you have most of what supporting a club actually is.