22 Facts About Notts County

Notts County Football Club is a professional association football club based in Nottingham, England.

Notts County has a local rivalry with city neighbour Nottingham Forest, as well as with other nearby clubs such as Mansfield Town.

Notts County has, for many years, claimed to be the oldest professional association football club in the world, having beenformed in 1862, although this is disputed by Crystal Palace FC.

Notts County are considered to be one of the pioneers of the modern game and are the oldest of the world's professional association football clubs.

Notts County were relegated in 1926 in what was to be their last season in the English top flight for over half a century.

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Legend among Notts County supporters it has been said he had "hands like the claws of a JCB and was a seven foot tall monster".

Notts County stunned the footballing world by signing Tommy Lawton from Chelsea for a then-record fee of £20,000.

Notts County appointed Jimmy Sirrel, a charismatic Scot who had once played for Celtic, as manager in November 1969.

Notts County completed the remarkable transformation of Notts County in May 1981.

Notts County had turned The Magpies from Fourth Division strugglers to a top division side in little over a decade, ending an absence of 55 years from the top flight.

Notts County survived relegation a little more comfortably the following season, but Wilkinson was tempted away by the manager's job at his boyhood club, Sheffield Wednesday, and the board recruited former Wigan Athletic manager Larry Lloyd to replace him.

Notts County booked their second successive visit to Wembley and their second successive promotion.

Notts County's relegation came shortly after the sale of strikers Paul Rideout and Tommy Johnson, which raked in nearly £2million in total and contributed towards a £5million stadium revamp which saw Meadow Lane rebuilt on three sides shortly afterwards.

Notts County had led for much of the game, until Forest got a free kick from which they equalised.

Notts County fans were reluctantly resigning themselves to a draw, when Palmer headed in the winner.

Notts County won the Anglo-Italian Cup at Wembley in March 1995, but ended the season relegated to Division Two, with Walker, Russell Slade, Howard Kendall and Steve Nicol each taking control of the team at different times throughout the season, before the club appointed yet another manager, Colin Murphy after the season ended.

In June 2009, it was announced that Notts County were in talks on a takeover by Munto Finance, a Middle Eastern consortium owned by Qadbak Investments and represented by Nathan and Peter Willett.

Notts County signed a three-year deal and stated his intent to get the club promoted to League One, but resigned two months later after just nine games in charge.

Notts County's luck ran out in March 2015, when Derry and assistant manager Greg Abbott were sacked with the team relegated to League Two.

Notts County's first known colours were amber and black hooped shirts, dating from the 1870s.

Notts County had a friend who lived in Nottingham, who being a Notts County supporter, shipped out the black and white striped shirts to Turin.

However, when Trent Bridge was in use for cricket, Notts County played matches at the Castle Ground or Nottingham Forest's Town Ground.