Royal Artillery's demise lead to the growth and popularity of another newly formed local team. A year earlier, on 5 April 1898, a new football club had been formed by a consortium of local Portsmouth businessmen, chaired by Brickwood's Brewery owner John Brickwood. After the "retirement" of Royal Artillery in 1899, many of Royal Artillery's supporters - and two of their players - then switched allegiances in 1899 to the new football club, who had been preparing as newly elected members of the Southern League First Division for the 1899-1900 season. Former Royal Artillery supporters brought their "Town Hall Chimes" chant and "Pompey" nickname to a modest new football ground, built on a former potato field near the farming village of Milton The new club was officially named the Portsmouth Football and Athletic Company Limited, and they played at Fratton Park, named after the nearby and convenient Fratton railway station.