Harrogate Town

Reasons To Adopt

Here is the argument for Harrogate Town: England, England National League, and a ground called Wetherby Road. A second team should give you something your first one cannot, and this is a different country's whole weather system.

• Old enough to matter

  1914 is the founding date, old enough that the club has survived a war, a rebuild and at least one financial scare, young enough that the good years are still in living memory.

• Loaded cabinet

  8 distinct honours on record, including National League (level 5). Adopt them and you inherit expectation, which is more fun than it sounds when the trophies keep coming.

• Cathedral football

  Wetherby Road holds around 50,002,000. Even a routine league game arrives with a noise floor most clubs only reach in a semi-final.

• You get a nickname

  Known as Sulphurites. That is your new shorthand, your search term and your excuse for buying a scarf.