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Football Alliance - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Football_AllianceThe president of the Football Alliance was John Holmes, also the president of The Wednesday who were the first champions winning fifteen games out of twenty-two. The nine founder clubs (eight bolded in the table below) originally decided to form the Alliance, originally under the name of the Northern Counties League, and considered applications from 6 clubs to fill the remaining three places.
Football Alliance - Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Football_AllianceIn 1888, the same year the Football League was founded, The Combination was established by clubs who had been excluded from the Football League, initiated by Crewe Alexandra secretary J. G. Hall, and announced at the Royal Hotel in Crewe. However, while the Football League quickly proved a success, the Combination lacked central organisation, with poor planning and unfulfilled fixtures, and failed to complete its first season, finishing in April 1889 without a winner.