Given the unusually expanded time period this time around, "the season from July 1016 until June 2017" may I propose for Small Club of the Year, the chessboard used in the incident mentioned below.
"Around 1060, William the Conqueror (1027-1087), was playing chess with the Prince of France and got checkmated. The king then took the chessboard and hit the prince over the head with it."
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