Football Club
The town's football team A.F.C. Fylde, formerly Kirkham and Wesham, play in the North West Counties League, after being promoted from the West Lancashire League in 2007. On May 11, 2008 the team travelled to Wembley Stadium to challenge Lowestoft Town in the final for the FA Vase. They returned victorious. On May 12 here was a victory procession through the town, with the team on an open-top bus, from Kirkham Market Square to Wesham Fire Station and back again, followed by a celebratory party in the Kirkham Community Centre car park. Thousands of spectators lined the route to cheer home the victorious team.
The town is also the home of two Sunday League football teams, Wesham FC and the somewhat superior Wesham Town FC.
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Famous quotes containing the words football and/or club:
“Idon’t enjoy getting knocked about on a football field for other people’s amusement. I enjoy it if I’m being paid a lot for it.”
—David Storey (b. 1933)
“He loved to sit silent in a corner of his club and listen to the loud chattering of politicians, and to think how they all were in his power—how he could smite the loudest of them, were it worth his while to raise his pen for such a purpose.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)