football story

[granny grump]

All the answers are British Football Teams. Just need to fill in the blanks. The number of question marks indicates how many letters are in the word.

The sun shone BRIGHTON the day we set sail for ??????in a ship with a HULL. we sailed down the river which LEEDS to the sea. We waved to the fair maiden leaning against the ???????.

The CREWE was made up of Scot, Irish and others of the ??????

Please can you help me finish this quiz

[slimseeker]

and others of the celtic?

[HowardKennitby]

Do the number of ? indicate the number of letters?

[sandyRoe]

against the Millwall?

[mallyh]

leaning against the arsenal?

[THECORBYLOON]

Others of the ORIENT?

[granny grump]

Thank you Celtic and Orient fit Arsenal fits but do you think that it flows or am I being picky? Millwall has too many letters Yes the ? do indicate the number of letters

[sir.prize]

granny grump. For reference only: You will see that Arsenal fits further on in the story.

The sun shone BRIGHTON the day we set sail for the
ORIENT in a ship with a HULL riddled with holes.
As we sailed down the river which LEEDS to the sea
we waved to the fair maid leaning against the
MILWALL.
The CREWE was made up of Scots, Irish and others
of the CELTIC race.
The exception was the cabin boy named CLYDE who
s job it was to STOKE the boilers. He was illiterate but
won our HEARTS with his STERLING efforts to improve his READING.
He was sent to COVENTRY by the other villains who had brought their ARSENAL
of weapons on board. They were a rowdy bunch after a drinking session they did
in fact WREXHAM furniture.
The voyage made my MOTHERWELL. She had not had a holiday FORFAR too
long. The sea AYR did her CHESTER lot of good.
We landed LEYTON in the day on the SOUTHEND of the island below the hills
where the natives BURY their dead. We crossed a MANSFIELD and entered a
dense FOREST where the WOLVES roamed freely. We PRESTON regardless
and eventually met a group of game RANGERS dressed in LINCOLN green.
After a day’s journey we caught dark fish in a BLACKPOOL and tried
unsuccessfully to get milk from a herd of wild cows. They didn’t like having their
HUDDERSFIELD.
At last we came to our destination, the home of
Hawaii’s monarch the QUEEN OF THE SOUTH. She
greeted us with a friendly ALOA, but she was very
upset as her CRYSTAL PALACE had been smashed
when the WALSALL fell down. While the
NEWCASTLE was being built she was forced to live in a sumptuous VILLA.
When we found the treasure we put the LUTON the ship determined
to put it in the HALIFAX building society when we got home. That night for tea we
had DUNDEE cake, CHELSEA buns and some OLDHAM which made us all ill.

[THECORBYLOON]

It's STIRLING by the way, not Sterling.

[sir.prize]

TCL - yes indeed, Stirling.

The compiler of granny's quiz has also indicated 7 letters rather than 8 for Millwall.

[THECORBYLOON]

It would have helped if she had included the "race" bit too.

[granny grump]

Thank you sir the story is slightly different to the one i am working on but more or less the same - Clyde doesn't have enough letters - the answer needs 8 letters and I have Clyde Bank for your Halifax answer and Millwall is spelt with 2 LLs isn't it?

[quinie]

Cabin boy's name has 8 letters.
Alloa
My copy doesn't have the bit about the sea air and building society isn't in it either.

[sir.prize]

Obviously there are numerous variations on the same theme.

[granny grump]

Apologies corbyloon - a typo - but slimseeker got it thank you

Is Alloa the answer to one of the questions quinie?

[quinie]

Yes,sir_prise suggested Aloa but five letters were needed so I put Alloa -sounds like Aloha.Must admit I had great difficulty counting the dots (no question marks in my copy) -not much room for answers either.

[quinie]

I put Stirling for the cabin boy's name

[granny grump]

Thank you quinie - I put stirling originally but then I have got 'with his STIRLING' efforts - what haveyou got for that please?

[Cruciformist]

..others of the CELTIC.....

[quinie]

Very iffy but I put Montrose efforts-sounds like monstrous-or does it?

[granny grump]

You've got me thinking now - and as granddad g says that can be dangerous