(NFR) - Come on USG!

[Airfix]

With no domestic football, let's have a collective cheer for Royale Union Saint-Gilloise of the Belgian third division who are currently playing in the second leg of the D3 playoff final.  2-1 up from the home leg, they are currently 1-0 down at Patro (and away goals count double) at half time.
How can you NOT love a club who were founded in 1897 and whose main stand fascia looks like this:



Come on USG!!

[Chesh]

With no domestic football, let's have a collective cheer for Royale Union Saint-Gilloise of the Belgian third division who are currently playing in the second leg of the D3 playoff final.  2-1 up from the home leg, they are currently 1-0 down at Patro (and away goals count double) at half time.
How can you NOT love a club who were founded in 1897 and whose main stand fascia looks like this:



Come on USG!!

You do realise that we were founded in 1879 though?

Otherwise, good shout.

[Airfix]

You do realise that we were founded in 1879 though?

Otherwise, good shout.

Yes, I do.  There are many parallels with FFC though.  They used to be brilliant (unlike us, they won the league eleven times before WW2) but have fallen on hard times.  They are one of the oldest clubs in Belgian football (their registration number is 10).

[Airfix]

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[Lighthouse]

Typical, we have to go to Belgium to get our fill of sadness and disappointment.

[Airfix]

Lost 2-0 (3-2 on aggregate).

Next year!!

[sunburywhite]

We should adopt them as our sister club

[Airfix]

We should adopt them as our sister club

:group hug:

No argument here.  Sipwell is a huge fan of theirs, hence my interest.

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[sunburywhite]

The club was founded in 1897 and obtained its first of eleven titles as Champion of Belgium in 1904. Its matricule is the n°10, meaning that it was the tenth football club to be formed in Belgium. From 1933 to 1935 the team played 60 consecutive matches undefeated, setting a still unbeaten and well-known record in Belgium. In the early 1900s the club also had a dominant spell in some of the very first "European" Cup competitions that took place, prior to officially sanctioned UEFA competitions.

Between 1958 and 1965 the club had a brief spell of European success, playing the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup, and reaching the semi-finals in the 1958-60 edition after a two legged victory against A.S. Roma. However, in 1963, the club was relegated to the second division, and in 1980 even fell as low as the Belgian Promotion division.

[HatterDon]

Flippin' 'eck, in Belgium the Royal Family is unionized?

[Burt]

Excellent... Got me a new club to start keeping an eye out for...

[sipwell]

Union lost. Sadness reigns. Another chance to promote to second division lost (it is very hard to get into second division).

[Burt]

Better luck next season...  049:gif