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    Headingley Carnegie

    By Will 2 years ago, mid-January Leave a comment on this post

    As you’ll no doubt have heard by now, Headingley has been renamed Headingley Carnegie, and I’m reliably informed that the name comes from Andrew Carnegie. He was a self-made rich bloke who, in later life, gave away most of his money to fund public libraries and so forth. So now you know.

    Rotten name, though…bloody sponsorship deals ruin names.

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