What is Carlton Football Club?
[[Image:Carlton FC Guernsey.jpg|thumb|220px| Carlton Football Club jumper]] [[Image:Setanta2.jpg|thumb|220px| Irish Gaelic footballer, Setanta O'Hailpin, playing for Carlton FC in 2007]] The '''Carlton Football Club''', the Blues, is an [[Australian rules football]] team that plays in the [[Australian Football League]]. It is based in the [[Melbourne]] suburb of [[Carlton, Victoria|Carlton]]. The club began in 1864, and its first home ground was a clearing in Melbourne's Royal Park.<ref name=blueseum>{{Cite web |url= http://www.blueseum.org/tiki-index.php?page=1864 |title=1864 : Blueseum - Online Carlton Football Club Museum |work=blueseum.org |access-date=6 October 2010 }}</ref> In its first season the Blues won only one game out of ten. In 1877, the club joined the Victorian Football Association, and then in 1897 it joined the Victorian Football League as one of its original teams.<ref name=blueseum/> After using grounds in East Melbourne and [[University of Melbourne|Melbourne University]], the club moved to its new football ground at Princess Park, Carlton in 1897.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.carltonfc.com.au/carltonfc/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/4311/Default.aspx?newsId=2467 |title=History of the Blues - Official AFL Website of the Carlton Football Club |work=carltonfc.com.au |access-date=6 October 2010 |archive-date=1 September 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070901171133/http://www.carltonfc.com.au/carltonfc/Season2007/News/NewsArticle/tabid/4311/Default.aspx?newsId=2467 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 1908, the club added the letters CFC to its navy blue jumpers. Carlton has won 16 Premierships in the VFL/AFL, the last one was in 1995. <ref name=blueseum/> ==Club song== <poem> ''We are the Navy Blues,'' ''We are the old dark Navy Blues,'' ''We're the team that never lets you down,'' ''We're the only team old Carlton knows,'' ''With all the champions they like to send us,'' ''We'll keep our end up.'' ''And they will know that they've been playing'' ''Against the famous ol