What We Like

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Football

The team at Valetime Group are fluent in football – we find football to be a common topic of conversation all over the world. It doesn’t not matter if you do not share the same language, you can always talk about football! Unless you are in America, in which cause we’d be talking soccer!

Valetime’s UK operations are based in the North West of England. The North West is a hot spot of English football. There are 7 Premiership football clubs in the North West, namely Blackburn Rovers, Bolton Wanderers, Everton, Liverpool, Manchester City, Manchester United and Wigan Athletic (2008). There are also many other well known teams in the North West playing in lower division leagues. Some of these clubs may not be as famous today as their Premier League neighbours, but some once were. Accrington Stanley, Burnley and Preston North End may not have International status but, they are all founding members of the English Football League in 1888, as are with Blackburn Rovers and Bolton Wanderers.

So, who do we support?

With an Internationally renown “galatico” team on our doorstep, it would be hard for some of the Valetime team not to support Manchester United. Based at Old Trafford in Manchester, Manchester United is arguably the most popular football club in the world,with over 330 million supporters worldwide! The club is the second most successful in the history of English football and by far the most successful of recent times, having won 20 major honours since the start of Alex Ferguson‘s reign as manager in November 1986.

However, we are not all Manchester United fans. Some of the Valetime team support Bolton Wanderers – another local Premiership football team. Founder members of the Football League, Bolton were a successful cup side in the 1920s, winning the FA Cup three times. The club won the cup a fourth time in 1958 thanks to two Nat Lofthouse goals. A leaner spell followed, reaching a nadir in 1987 when the club spent a season in the Fourth Division. The club regained top-flight status in 1995 after a 15 year absence; their current spell in the top division started in 2001. In 2005â€“06 they participated in European competition for the first time, reaching the last 32 of the UEFA Cup. Bolton qualified for the 2007â€“08 tournament by finishing 7th in the 2006â€“07 Premier League season and this time they managed to reach the last 16 of the competition. Bolton Wanderers moved to the Reebok Stadium in 1997. Their former home was Burnden Park.

Travel

Valetime Group operate internationally and have interests in the UK, Eatern Europe and China. Valetime also have associate organisations and partners based across North & South America, Europe, Asia and New Zealand. We get to experience the world through our day-to-day business activities. But, we also love to visit places and explore local culture, sites, activities and experience.

Our top global destinations are as follows.