Lockdown Lunacy number 2 (another silly quiz)

By swanstuff8/6/2020 22:57Mon Jun 8 22:57:30 2020

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As the previous question is fizzling out to a spectacular damp squib, here's something else for you to ponder...

Our records aren't quite complete for the period since the Club got back on its feet (1943) to the present day, but they're pretty close. I have 4177 fixtures on record between those dates, against 373 different clubs.

All those figures are slightly "grey" - it depends on what you count as a "different club". I've been reasonably generous, but not completely rigorous, but for the purpose of this question:
I count a new club if two clubs we've played against before join together (but I have made a handful of exceptions, if it seems that one club massively dominates the other in the merger, and they keep the former's ground).
I count a new club even if it has the same name, if a whole new entity starts up at a new ground, and seems to be 'poaching' the record of the old.But I count the same club, if it's a simple name change, a merger with a team we've not played before, and even in most instances where it's a bankruptcy but a replacement club starts up (with the same or similar name) at the same ground.
As I say - there are some exceptions, but I'll not be too harsh on you for falling foul of those!

Now, out of those 4177 games, over one third of them have been against just 29 different clubs (each of whom we've played 39 times or more) I count friendlies, so occasionally we'll meet an "XI" or "Reserve" side, but they count as part of the same Club.

Your task is to identify the 29 clubs. For each one you suggest, the first person to mention it gains 1 point. But beware - if you state a team that's NOT in the top 29, you lose a point.

There you go then: start naming the teams we've played most over the last 77 years!