Nickname
Aylesbury Vale adopted the nickname of "The Moles" after the moles that live under their pitch at Haywood Way. The moles there proved so stubborn and hard to eradicate that the club took them up as the team's nickname.
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“A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)