Great Britain Spartans

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The Great Britain Spartans were a football team that competed in the Football League of Europe (FLE) in 1994 and 1995 .

The team was founded as Manchester Spartans back in 1983 before moving to Sheffield in 1994 for the Football League of Europe (FLE) and changing its name. In the first season the playoffs were narrowly missed, in the second season there wasn't much going on for the English : After five defeats in five games, there were "irregularities" in the team, so that the league leadership canceled all further encounters between the Spartans were.

literature

  • Lars Dzikus: American Football in West Germany: Cultural Transformation, Adaptation, and Resistance. In: Annette R. Hofmann (Ed.): Turnen and Sport. Waxmann Verlag, 2004, p. 234, ISBN 978-3-8309-1381-8