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On 3 September 1910, County moved to Meadow Lane, the first game was a 1–1 draw with old rivals Nottingham Forest, played in front of 27,000 fans paying receipts of £775. [ 7 ] In 1920 the landlord, Nottingham Corporation, which leased the land to the club, came very close to removing the club from its premises to make way for an abattoir.
Coral is a chain of betting shops in the United Kingdom, owned by Entain. The Coral business was established by Joe Coral in 1926. It grew into an entertainment conglomerate before undergoing a series of ownership changes starting in 1981. As of 2015, Coral had 1,845 shops across the country. [1]
The combination of the two companies created Britain's biggest bookmaker, with over 4,000 betting shops and 30,000 employees. [51] In July 2016, the Competition and Markets Authority identified 642 areas where the merger would harm local competition, and said 350 to 400 shops would need to be sold off for the merger to be approved. [52]
His efforts made little headway, and in protest, he proposed in 1969 to split the state in two, with horse betting legal in South Texas. [19] Nonbinding statewide referendums to revive parimutuel betting were defeated in 1962, [20] 1968, [21] 1974, [22] and 1978, [23] with opposition led largely by Baptist churches. [24]
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Notts County first played their neighbours Nottingham Forest in March 1866, [18] in Forest's first ever match. [138] This makes the Nottingham derby, as matches between the two clubs are known, one of football's oldest fixtures. [139] A team of 17 Forest players took on a Notts team of 11, and the match finished 0–0. [18]
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