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Football Clubs by Alternate Origin

Given each of the false origin stories, guess the football club.
Quiz by nromero02
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Last updated: May 16, 2023
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First submittedMay 16, 2023
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Owned by prominent cleaning product subsidiary
Ajax
English club named after the owner's house in Spain
Aston Villa
Honoring Martian mechanisms covered in soot and ash
Blackburn Rovers
Originally a business for selling lunch meat
Bologna
Founded by Boston NBA fans to memorialize their first championship
Celtic
Commemorated the child of Bill and Hillary Clinton
Chelsea
Started by George Washington to celebrate independence from Britain
Club America
Soda company CEOs miswrote their name on the stadium lease
Colo-Colo
Funded by a local diamond and gem emporium
Crystal Palace
American meatpacking immigrants introduced to the sport by locals
Hamburger SV
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Stadium renovated from a shipbuilding factory
Hull City
Renamed in honor of the next door pâté company that fed the players
Liverpool
Named after new owner's first remarks upon seeing their ground
Nice
Joint-owned club by the owners of a Texas MLB and New York NHL team
Rangers
Former workers of a waterfront porcelain company
River Plate
Exclusively consisting of Greek emigrants to Czechia
Sparta Prague
First owner was an avid birdwatcher
Swansea
Misspelling of the century in which they were created
Twente
Breakaway from above meatpacking club that left the east of the city
West Ham
Conceived by some bored teenage university students
Young Boys
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