Can I ask you something Lee...
Don't use 1883 when mentioning us please...That may be the teams playing name, but the majority of our fanbase absolutely hate being called Darlington 1883, we are simply Darlington...
The Reason why
When we got relegated in 2012, the club did not have the golden share that enables us to play and without it back in 2012, the FA gave us the quadruple relegation, they told us basically 'No Golden Share, No play football' The FA decided were a new entity, that Darlington F.C. went to the wall, when in fact we didn't really, when the 1883 Rescue Group bought the club, they took on the old debts and honoured them, but we came out of that period of Administration without a CVA being in place...Despite that, the FA said 'New Club', that is where 1883 comes from, that name was chose quick as there was not enough time to poll the fans on the new name so 1883 was decided upon.
We hate the 1883 bit, so will you drop it if you don't mind please