Brexit, football and changing of the goalposts

In true nerd style, I came across an interesting documentary the other night about trains and England, and how the rail network shaped that country in terms of commuters, building, culture, architecture.

During the programme the significance of train networks in sport was mentioned: horse racing meetings were facilitated by spectators taking the train, and the new rail industry employed enough people to fill entire sports teams. One such was composed by the workers on an obscure section of track in northwestern England, soccer side Newton Heath LYR.

LYR, standing for Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway, was intended to distinguish them from Newton Heath Loco, the team from the power division of the company.