Salford City

Why Salford City

Here is the argument for Salford City: England, England EFL League Two, and a ground called Moor Lane. 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 EFL League Two 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.

• Old enough to matter

  1940 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.

• Nothing won, everything to play for

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

• Cathedral football

  Moor Lane holds around 51,082,246. Even a routine league game arrives with a noise floor most clubs only reach in a semi-final.