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OUR region has one of the oldest leagues in the world. And as one of the sport's traditional heartlands, it is only right football is brought home through the 2018 World Cup. The Northern League (action, right) was formed in 1889 and today boasts teams from four County FAs - Northumberland, Durham, Cumberland and North Yorkshire. And the first ever winners of the World Cup were playing in the Northern League, the globe's second oldest. County Durham-based West Auckland funded its own trip to Italy to represent Great Britain in 1909, when it won the trophy without conceding a goal, beating FC Winterthur of Switzerland 2-0 in the final on April 12, 1909.
Two years later they returned to Turin and beat Juventus 6-1 to win the Sir Thomas Lipton trophy outright.See the full content of this document
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