True story.
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2004/may/31/sport.comment1
Ref earlier comment above about Exeter being a rugby town - that’s pretty recent (late 90s onwards), they’re all rugby JCLs.......
Born in Devon, near Exeter, so got to be the Grecians for me
(in case anyone is wondering - which I doubt - the nickname apparently comes from a fair at Southernhay in the 1700s, in which the Siege of Troy was enacted - the team that played there (St Sidwell's Old Boys) changed their name to...