Slavia Prague tackle Oxford exam

0 Comments | AFP, April, 2008

PRAGUE (AFP) — Czech league club Slavia Prague will take a step back into history to celebrate its new 21,000 seat stadium by playing a team of students from Oxford University AFC, the club announced on Thursday.

Oxford University was the first English club to take on Slavia in 1899, winning 3-0 in front of a record crowd of 4,000.

Slavia got their revenge 37 years later with an 8-2 win.

Slavia, currently second in the Czech league with a total of 14 league titles since being founded in 1896, will play Oxford on May 7.

The new stadium was built on the site of a dilapidated ground in the south of the capital which the club had to leave in 2000 after around half a century.

Slavia was forced to move from its previous home in the centre because...

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