NICE NAMES

I'm being serious now. It's nearly time to head to my home county to enjoy the incoming 2020 in the shadow of the South Downs, a landscape a little softer than my present view of the South Pennines. Both beautiful in their own way.

Playing in the Unofficial Internationals between 1870-72 was a mixture of Englishmen and Scots, all living south of the border, mainly around London. There had been an unofficial international on March 5th 1870 at The Oval which ended in a 1-1 draw.
This result encouraged the secretary of the Football Association to announce in "The Sportsman" paper that a match between the "Scotch" and English will take place at The Oval on February 19th so any person "duly qualified and desirous of assisting either party must communicate with Mr AF Kinnaird of 2 Pall Mall, SW or Mr J Kirkpatrick  of the Admiralty, Somerset House, WC. on behalf of the Scotch, OR , Mr Charles W Alcock, Court, Ludgate Hill, EC. or Mr RG Graham, 7 Finch Lane EC, on behalf of the English.

It seemed a good idea to advertise nation wide but in the end only London "livers" applied. Alcock picked the England team and Kinnaird the Scotch. This upset the footballers north of the border, another reason for them to rebel!

Some of the chaps (with nice names) that played included:
John Cockerell, from Camberwell, who played for the Brixton Club and Barnes.
Evelyn Freeth, from London, who was educated at Eton and worked in the Civil Service.
Thomas Charles Hooman, educated at Charterhouse School, and who(man) also played for The Wanderers.
Edgar Lubbock from London also a Wanderer and Old Etonian. He played for the Etonians in the 1875 FA Cup final with his brother, the first pair of brothers to achieve this.
Walter Boldero Paton from London went to Harrow Schoool and also played for Oxford University in the 1873 Cup Final.
Archibald Wayland Ruggles-Brise-YES seriously went to Eton, of course and Cambridge University, Cleverly he married Mabel Coope of the brewing family Ind Coope. (there is some doubt that he played being ill on the day, so William Crake took his place)
Robert Sandilands Frowd Walker, born Chester Castle, went to Brentwood School and played for Clapham Rovers. He went to Malaysia to plant rubber trees!

The game started at 3pm and by then the Scotch team had to import two last minute players, having lost a couple just before the kick off. The game ended 1-0 to England and "The Scotsman" reported that "It must not be supposed that the eleven who represented "us" have in their defeat involved our national reputation as athletes". Following this, the Scots were quick to develop the game of rugby!

ITS NOT CRICKET

A friendly cricket match between  local rivals? It used to happen and eventually the idea fell foul of the fear of a hard ball causing injury to expensive footballers and of course, mustering up enough players from their multi national squads, who know how to play the game?

Some football grounds were able to support both games and gave "entrance" income for the full year. Northampton Town FC played on the edge of the county cricket ground from 1897. Unexpectedly it was a terrible surface because they used the edge and car parking areas. The Cobblers' last fixture was a Division 3 0-1 defeat to Mansfield on October 11th 1994. 4 days later they played out a 1-1 draw to Barnet at their next venue Sixfields.

Sheffield Wednesday was formed as a winter fitness exercise for the members of the Wednesday Cricket Club who met at the Adelphi Hotel in the city on September 4th 1867 to form a football club. Over 60 members joined up.
Bramall Lane of course was a double venue:
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/03/just-not-cricket.html

I've shown snowy football pitches recently but this is the cricket pitch at Feethams, next door to Darlington FC, on December 29th 1923. The Quakers were playing Chesterfield on the side of the football to avoid postponing the match due to a snowy surface. The cricket pitch apparently was playable. 5675 turned up to see their team win 2-1. Founded in 1883, the club now plays at Blackwell Meadows (see below).
 Feethams in 2005.

ALL BETTS NOW

Got another book on football for Christmas. Graham Betts has painstakingly gathered details of every England international from 1872 to present. Its a belter. From the "unofficial internationals", early on, to the present day, I can find out all sorts of stuff about our brave internationals.

First man up alphabetically is Walter Abbott who made his debut on 3rd March 1902 v Wales havinf been spotted playing for Everton. He also played for the Football League team and was awarded two FA Cup medals with Everton, a runners up in 1906 and a winners one in 1907. His career went from Rosewood Victoria, Small Heath (later Birmingham City), Everton, Burnley and back to Birmingham City, by then named properly!Injury curtailed his progress and his son Walter played for Grimsby Town after the First World War.

Last named was Robert Lester Zamora whose career spanned Bristol Rovers, Bath City, Brighton, Tottenham, West Ham, Fulham, QPR and Brighton again. His debut was against Hungary in August 2010; he made two appearances.

There are 3 "I"s.....Paul Ince, Danny Ings and James Iremonger, who has been mentioned before, two "Q"s.....Alfred Quantrill of Derby and Preston when in international form in the 1920s, he was the son-in-law of Steve Bloomer.....please don't say you have never heard of Steve. The third is Albert Quixall who played for England when at Sheffield Wednesday.

The first professional to gain an England cap was James Forrest of Blackburn Rovers who won his first cap v Wales in March 1884, playing 11 times

and the well known writer Bernard Joy was an amateur playing for Arsenal when he won his cap against Belgium on May 9th 1936, the last amateur to play for England. He wrote for the Evening Standard and Daily Express.

AND on the 28th December 2008 Albert Stubbins died. He appeared once for England in an unofficial match during the Victory Internationals after the First World War. His fame is that he appears on the Beatles "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band". The only footballer included. WHY? Born in Wallsend he played for Newcastle United and during the war he worked for the Royal Ordnance engineering factory and gathered 240 goals in 172 appearances. Sold to Liverpool in September 1946 he continued to score goals and win medals until 1953, when he signed for Ashington in the non-league. More about him on the link...can you find him?
https://ahalftimereport.com/2015/12/11/albert-stubbins-sgt-peppers/

KINGSTON UPON HULL

The original badge Hull City FC with the "Three Crowns", the civic emblem of Kingston-upon-Hull.

AND now.....
I was looking at this club badge this afternoon, when I was sharing tea and cake with a local lad and his guests who are ardent Hull City fans, one who wore this emblem on his seasonal jumper. The couple go to every Hull game, home and away. So they have experienced a few ups, a few downs and quite a lot of "stay where you ares!" They are presently in the Championship.

Founded in 1904 the club has to contend with "rugby league" competition for support, there weren't a lot of trophies. Two Wembley highlights  would have been the 2008 Championship Play Off  and the 2014 FA Cup final defeat to Arsenal. There was excitement here, when Hull were 2-0 up in ten minutes and lost 3-2 after Extra Time.

The Championship Play Off win over Bristol City 1-0 (local lad, Dean Windass scored the winner) meant that the club had risen from the lowest Football League Division to the Top in 5 seasons, the third fastest ever.
There was another promotion to the PL in 2015-16 when Hull beat Sheffield Wednesday in the Championship play-off.

December 27th 1919 saw the end of a 4 game run without a point for Hull City in a Division 2 League match. Hull City beat Wolves 10-3 in another high scoring game at Christmas time (too much "pop"!). Seven days earlier on the 20th Wolves had won 4-2.
At that time their other opposition in Div 2 would have been the likes of Leeds City (later Leeds United), Burton United, Gainsborough Trinity and Glossop North End.

In 1980 on the same date, goalkeeper, Tony Coton (below) made his debut for Birmingham City against Sunderland in a league game and his first touch of the ball (after 54 seconds) came about when team mate Joe Gallagher gave away a penalty. Opposition John Hawley's spot kick was saved, by the debut goalkeeper.

WELL HUNG OVER?

I'm off to Bramall Lane with family and friends today (Boxing Day) to enjoy the hospitality of Budweiser at the Blades v Watford Premier League clash. We hope for a stonking game.

On Boxing Day 1979, in the Third Division, Sheffield Wednesday hosted Sheffield United and won 3-0 in front of 49,309 fans. The Steel City derby sent half the city home with a smile.

In 1963, on Boxing Day, the First Division (the old top one) aggregated 66 in 10 matches including Fulham thumping Ipswich, 10-1, the last time a team has scored double figures in the top flight. When they met again later in the season Ipswich won 2-4. The Tractor Boys came root in the First Division:
Playing 42 Winning 9 Drawing 7 Losing 26  Scoring 56 and Conceding 121.
Some scores were: v Arsenal 0-6, v Bolton 0-6, v Liverpool 0-6, v Stoke 1-9, v Tottenham H 3-6
was the Ipswich manager at the time.
A prolific centre-forward, he scored 177 goals in 353 games for Newcastle Utd and remarkably only played 13 times for England scoring 10 goals. His face did not fit! 
He went on to manage Linfield and Yiewsley (who?) before taking on the Ipswich role....nothing after! I think he was not tuned into defensive coaching.

On that day in 1963, 157 goals were scored in 39 matches in the four Football League divisions that day.
The scores in the top division were:
Blackpool 1 Chelsea 5
Burnley 6 Man U 1 (the reverse result on 28th was 1-5)
Leicester 2 Everton 0
Liverpool 6 Stoke 1
Nottingham Forest 3 Sheffield Utd 3
Sheffield Wednesday 3 Bolton W 0
WBA 4 Spurs 4
West Ham 2 Blackburn Rovers 8 (reverse on 28th 3-1)
Wolves 3 Aston Villa 3

CHRISTMAS CHEERS

A very Merry Christmas to you hundreds out there, here's a "stolen" article on this special day, published by 442 magazine a few years ago.
https://www.fourfourtwo.com/features/football-christmas-day-match-history-victorian-tradition

RIGHT-HONORABLE MUIR MACKENZIE OC GCB PC QC

Well, I never struggle for a theme....and today is no exception. In "Forthcoming Marriages in the Daily Telegraph, Court and Social page, I noticed the surname Muir Mackenzie. Snaffled it and looked it up in "From Cloisters to Cup Finals"...yes, my book on The History of Charterhouse Association Football. Well Miss G.M. Muir Mackenzie was getting wed. She is the daughter of Sir Alexander M M, Baronet and Lady M M of Gillingham and Sherborne, Dorset.

There won't be many Muir Mackenzies around, I guess, and sure enough Kenneth is on page 15 of the book; born on 26th June 1845, he went into the school's "Scholars' " House (Saunderites) in March 1857. Six years before Association Football was formalised in 1863.
He stayed in school until 1864 and played First XI football in 1862-3, captaining the side in his last year. He played 1st XI cricket also, leading his school team in his final season.
Remember that the school was in London at this time, in Charterhouse Square, neighbouring Smithfield Market.
Sir Kenneth became Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor and was on the school's Governing Body.

Kenneth is third from left, a team photo outside the Cloisters in 1863.
After Charterhouse, he went to Balliol College, Oxford, married, continued his career in politics, going to the "Bar" in 1873, getting a peerage in 1915. He brought a team to the school to play the School XI annually. His claim to fame is playing in the first ever England v Scotland unofficial international on March 5th 1870 at the Kennington Oval. It was drawn 1-1. He died in May 1930.

His brother Montague (on team photo he is far right) followed a similar path to his brother (Charterhouse, Oxford and Law), he also played for the school and in one of the "representative internationals" for Scotland against England, on February 24th 1872. He played in goal for part of a game and interchanged with Charles Nepean, another Carthusian. England won 1-0.
John Inglis and Edward Ravenshaw, also Carthusians and Inglis representing the Wanderers too, also played in these internationals.


MERRY CHRISTMAS!

THE CHICKS AVOID THE CHOP

Dorking FC, the Chicks, is a football club founded in Mid-Surrey in 1880.
It remains the oldest senior club in the county, but folded in 2017.
Don't panic, a club now known as Dorking Wanderers FC was set up by Marc White, with some mates in 1999, taking the club from the now defunct Crawley and District League to the National League South in 11 promotions...a British Record. Dorking Wanderers won the Isthmian Premier Division in 2018-19 by 22 clear points and now performing in the National League South, lying 5th alongside such established clubs as Bath City, Slough Town and Wealdstone.
On Saturday they beat Maidstone Utd away 2-3 in front of over 1700.
 
Playing originally in the Mid Surrey League, the Dorking FC club was a founding member of the Surrey County Senior League in 1922. In 1956 they began to play at Meadowbank Park (below) and joined the Athenian League merging with Guildford City in 1974 and became Guildford and Dorking United. This lasted two years, the club collapsed, became Dorking Town FC in 1977 and played in the Surrey Senior League from 1977. In 1983 they joined the Isthmian League as Dorking FC and had various successes and failures in the Combined Counties League, closing in 2017 after the usual financial and social turmoil facing Non-League clubs, merging with Dorking Wanderers.

MARTIN PETERS

 Died at the weekend aged 76 after enduring Alzheimer's. he will be remembered for his 364 appearances for West Ham United, when he was one of the Hammers' trio that made such a huge contribution to the England World Win in 1966. He played between 1959-70 just over 300 games for West Ham scoring 81 goals from midfield.


Martin went to Spurs in 1970, as Britain's first £200,000 footballer, winning two League Cups and the European Cup Winners Cup and he appeared 189 times scoring 46 goals.
In 1975 he then went to Norwich playing 206 times with 44 goals City and in 1980 Sheffield United played 24 times and then managed for a while.

Martin Peters MBE played 67 times for England scoring 20 goals, along side Alan Ball, Ray Wilson, Gordon Banks, and Bobby Moors who have passed on from the 1966 WC Final team. A modest and disciplined footballer he celebrated the World Cup win with a cup of tea at the victory banquet, having been a goal scorer.
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-itm-001&hsimp=yhs-001&hspart=itm&p=martin+peters+1966#id=35&vid=34b6945bf5a71e852678de470314a119&action=click

Alf Ramsey described Peters as being "ten years ahead of his time", such was his ability to ghost into free spaces to score goals. He was also a specialist at free-kicks and a versatile footballer, who could play in any position, including a stint as a goalie at West Ham, once, after an injury.
 "The Champions" by Philip Jackson, outside the Boleyn Ground, West Ham, in 2003, includes Peters, Hurst, Moore and Ray Wilson.

SHAY SHY OF GOAL

Its a been an exciting day today with a trip to watch these two once Football League clubs play in the National League. The Shay is well preserved and 2491fans enjoyed 6 goals, with County winning 2-4 away from home. My chum Clint, a Magpie supporter, went home happy.

The Shaymen weren't really at the races where County strode out with their right winger rated as most dangerous. County are now 8th in the table and Town 11th. Happy Christmas.

The Shay is nestled in amongst old mill buildings and also hosts the local rugby league team.
County you know is the oldest league club  founded in 1862. What else are they well known for? What about "letting Juventus" have their kit style; The Old Lady.

They are also: The first team to win the FA Cup Final when not in the "top flight". The Bolton Wanderers 4-1 in the 1894 final. Harry Cursham is the top scorer "STILL" since 1887, having scored 49 goals in the competition.
On September 8th 2011 County helped Juventus open their new Allianz Stadium, recognising the link between the two clubs.

Halifax Town has been up and down the leagues, founded in May 1911 and were founder members of the new Football League Third Division North in 1921. The club then joined the new, rearranged Third Division in 1958 and were relegated to the Football Conference in 1993. The club had various financial issues (check Macclesfield, Bury, Bolton etc) and was dissolved in 2008. They joined the National League Division 1 North under the new name of FC Halifax Town and looking at The Shay are doing well.

Most famous Town man? Centre forward, Geoff Horsfield, possibly, who played in the Football League in the late 1996-8, sold to Fulham in October 1998.

TERRIERS TORN APART-EVENTUALLY

Saturday December 21st  at The Valley, home of Charlton Athletic.
The most amazing League match ever? 

At half time in the Second Division match between Charlton Athletic and Huddersfield Town on things looked bleak for the home side. Charlton were down to 10 men with centre-half Derek Ufton suffering a dislocated shoulder after 17 minutes (no

 substitutes in those days). Athletic was behind with goals from Les Massie and Alex Bain for the Terriers. 

Johnny Summers pulled one back for Charlton, two minutes after the re-start, but in the 49th minute Alex Bain scored again for the visitors as did Bill McGarry from the penalty spot after 51 minutes and Bob Ledger added a fifth 11 minutes later.

Charlton were 1-5 down and a man down with less than half an hour to go. Many Charlton fans in the 12,535 crowd fled the ground to do some last-minute Christmas shopping. 

They missed a Christmas miracle. 

Two minutes after Huddersfield's fifth goal it was back to 3-5 with goals from Buck Ryan and Johnny Summers. Summers then added three more in eight minutes to put Charlton 6-5 ahead. 

With four minutes left, Stan Howard equalised for the Yorkshiremen, before Buck Ryan hit the winner for the home side with seconds remaining. 

An amazing 7-6 victory for Charlton - the only time that scoreline has been recorded in the Football League.

Mind you, Charlton were no strangers to remarkable scorelines around that time. 

On Saturday October 22nd 1960 they drew 6-6 with Middlesbrough at the Valley - only the second time that scoreline has been recorded in the Football League. 

Three weeks previous to that Johnny Summers hit another five goals in the 7-4 home victory over Portsmouth. 

In November 1959 they suffered their worst-ever League defeat - 1-11 at Aston Villa.

And six weeks before that they had lost 4-6 at Plymouth. 

Amazingly the following season two more 6-4 results against Plymouth - winning the home match on Boxing Day 1960 6-4 

They lost the return match played a day later at Home Park 4-6.

A time for generousity??

POOL v THE ROWING CLUB

Below a recent reminder about the World Club Championships.
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/the-16th-fifa-club-cup-takes-place-this.html
Just to keep you up to date here are the latest results from the World Club Championships.
1st Round
11/12 Al Sadd Sports Club 3-1 Hienghiene Sport aet
2nd Round
14/12 Al Hilal FC 1-0 Esperance Sportive de Tunis       Monterrey 3-2 Al Sadd SC
5th Place
17/12 Al Sadd 2-6 Esperance for 5th and 6th place
Semi-final
17/12 Club de Regatas do Flamengo 3-1 Al Hilal
18/12 Monterrey 1-2 Liverpool thanks to Brazilian goalkeeper Alison and the referee apparently. The Monterrey coach sportingly said that "Maybe the Liverpool shape caries more weight , so Gomez was not sent off! 24 hours, two matches, 28 players, two cups, two continents! winning goal in 90+ minute.
3rd place
21/12 Monterrey v Al Hilal 2.30pm
FINAL
21/12 Liverpool v Flamengo 5.30pm ko our time.
Flamengo founded in 1895 as a sports' club, with rowing as a major involvement.
The rowing team 1896.
Sited in Rio de Janeiro the football club developed in 1912, playing at the famous Maracana with 30 million supporters trying to get in to the stadium! The club joined the Brazilian National League in 1959 and has won several league and cup titles since their foundation:
Since 2000: won 10 Copeonato Corioca (State Football Championships) and 35 all together.

1912.....Main rivals: Fluminese, Botafogo, Vasco da Gama.

IT COULD BE WORSE

Inclement weather coming up.......It could be worse! I can't identify this ground and crowd but it must have been an attractive game to gather such a dedicated crowd. Below is...........a brave soul......
 Billy Mercer of Huddersfield Town at the old Leeds Road ground in 1925. Yes, you guessed, Billy was a goalkeeper playing in the successful Town First Division team between 1923-6. Previously he spent 10 years at Hull City playing nearly 200 games in the 2nd Division and then at Blackpool in 1928, his last club. Born in Prescot, Liverpool, in 1892, he died in 1956. Luckily for Billy, he avoided drowning in that goalmouth!

Just a short one today because I am off to Manchester to visit the National Football Museum. if you haven't been then GO!

FIFA CWC 2019

The 16th FIFA Club World Cup takes place this week in Qatar, with the final on the 21st December. Liverpool, as UEFA Champions are involved. hence their second team offering to play in the highly prestigious Carabao Cup tonight.
The teams involved in this year's CWC "finals" are:
Flamengo of Brazil representing CONMEBOL,
Al-Hilal of Saudi Arabia AFC,
Esperance de Tunis of Morocco CAF,
Monterrey of Mexico CONCACAF,
Hienghene Sports of New Caledonia OFC (where is this? you may ask)
Al-Sadd of Qatar who are the HOSTS. Only 7 teams are taking part.

Quite simply the riff raff play "quarter-finals" and Liverpool go straight to the semis with Flamengo where they meet Monterrey at the Khalifa Stadium on Doha on the 18th December. The Mexicans will have played one match already.
The final is on the 21st.

BLOG OF THE YEAR???

Spurred on by the SPOTY awards last night and Stokes' win, I am encouraged to research SPURS, CRICKET, FOOTBALL (of course), AC  MILAN and STOKE.

Yes I know its all a bit contrived but you yo trying doing this daily for the number of years that I have and see how you get on! Don't mention it!

Ben Stokes looks as though he could wheel a leg around a football pitch but it is Stoke that gets the vote and ......
Below is a nice link to those football/cricket doubles (which I have certainly mentioned before but hey ho some of my thousands of readers might not have seen this. Its good for a Christmas quiz if you are so inclined!)
http://footballsite.co.uk/DYK/DYK22-Cricket.htm

On December 16th 1899 two Englishmen and some Swiss pals, living in Milan were keen to get a bit of cricket and football going in the Italian city, so they gathered a few ex-pats and few immigrants to have fun. Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards formed the Milan Cricket and Football Club, not calling it Milano (the Italian version) and so the name Milan stuck with the football club, AC Milan, in Italian history. AC Milan eventually rested the Italian championship from Genoa in 1901. In 1908 the Italian Football Federation were so fed up with the dominance of teams populated by foreigners that they excluded Genoa, Milan and Torino from the national competition. The officials eventually agreed to rescind the "ban" in return for thr official use of the word "calcio" for the name of the game rather than the English "football". Calcio means "I kick".

On December 16th 1961, Spurs' inside forward, Jimmy Greaves scored a debut hat trick for Spurs, in a 5-2 win over Blackpool in the 1st Division (top one) at White Hart Lane, one goal a spectacular flying scissors kick. This season they won the FA Cup and came third in the league.
It wasn't the first time that JG has scored a debut hat trick for a club!

I bet you spotted the link? of course Greaves went to AC Milan on June 1961, staying for less than a year. He scored in his first game against Botafogo in a 2-2 draw. Greaves then signed for West Ham and managed two goals on his debut on March 21st 1970.

Greaves, sporting AC Milan colours, scored  366 goals in top flight football had his record beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017. JGs career tailed off at Brentwood Town, Chelmsford City, Barnet and Woodford Town FC.

And on this date 2017, Sunderland beat Fulham 1-0 in the Championship, their first home win since beating Watford 1-0 on December 17th 2016, having gone 21 league and cup games without a win at the Stadium of Light. A WHOLE YEAR.

AND FINALLY....I haven't mentioned Stoke!
Well on March 27th (my birthday) the famous amateur club Corinthians (not the Brazilians) played Stoke as they were known then, on their "northern" tour in 1882-3, the first season of their foundation, losing 4-5. The previous tour games were against Accrington (3-4), Church (2-0) and Bootle (2-0); the tour was designed to bring football to the north!!! to stimulate Association Football at a time when the Scots were beating England during the first decades of internationals:
Results from 1872-England first:
0-0, 4-2, 1-2, 2-2, 0-3, 1-3, 2-7, 5-4, 4-5 (1880), 1-6, 1-5, 2-3, 0-1, 1-1, 1-1, 2-3, 5-0, 2-3, 1-1(1890)
Then: 2-1, 4-1, 5-2, 2-2, 3-0, 1-2, 1-2, 3-1, 2-1, 1-4 (1900)..........
The Scots were professional in their approach to the game and filtered across the border to play for the north-western clubs which were paying money. The south remained amateur for a number of years, so something had to be done. Here are some of the chaps. The Corinthian Club merged with the Casuals to form the Corinthian-Casuals, a club that plays in the BetVictor Isthmian Premier.

THE X FACTOR

You know the "X" factor question about how many Football League clubs can you name with an "X" in their name. These days there are no longer 5.
Now: only Crewe Alexandra (often forgotten), Oxford United, Exeter City

Once also: FC Halifax Town (not known as this at the time) and Wrexham AFC, now Non-League.
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2019/12/wrexhams-cup-run-floweth-over.html

Yesterday in the First Round Proper of the Buildbase FA Trophy, FC Halifax Town hosted Wrexham AFC at The Shay, Town's historic stadium. Halifax won 4-0 watched by 752.

Some clubs have been in the Football League and may have changed their name for historic or sometimes financial reasons:

Other ex-Football League teams competing in this round were:
(some of these will have disbanded and reformed under a slightly different name)
Solihull Moors v Darlington FC 2-2,
Stockport County v Blyth Spartans 4-2
Bradford Park Avenue v Halesowen 2-2
Harrogate Town v Hartlepool Utd 3-2
Torquay Utd v  Aldershot 5-1
Sutton Utd v Dagenham and Redbridge 1-1
Hednesford v Chester City  0-0
Chesterfield v Notts County 0-1
Yeovil Town v Welling 3-1
South Shields v Southport  yes South Shields played n the 3rd Division North and 2nd Div from 1919 to 1929-30
Barnet FC v Weymouth FC
Athertone Collieries v AFC Barrow

Draw on Monday next Round January 11th

DRUMMOND KICKS SEVERAL BALLS

It's December 14th, Hepworth village Pantomime tonight, precipitation outside, at 1000 feet above sea level and north enough (53 deg N) a latitude to be chilly, is snow and hail threatening this afternoon's sport. I chose to stay indoors, I suspect most games locally have been postponed.

On December 12th 1891, an attendance of 300 watched Preston NE and Notts County play a First Division league match. They were all chilled to the bone at Deepdale. The North Eastern Daily Gazette noted that feeling cold was no excuse for the "unpleasant behaviour and remarkable scenes". Preston were known as "The Invincibles" for their previous success in the emerging Victorian football league, including the first Double.

Preston came second to Sunderland in this season, whilst Notts County were 8th out of 14.

Jimmy Ross had scored for Preston from a free kick. Then Preston's Geordie Drummond (below) and County's Jimmy Oswald collided and the latter claimed that Drummond had kick him deliberately in a "dangerous part of the body". The pair had a fight and were dismissed from the field by referee Mr Lockett.
A few minutes later Drummond returned to the field and scored twice giving Preston a 3-0 lead at half time. Drummond made it 4-0 after half time, so the County coach ordered his team off the field and back to the Pavilion, claiming the weather was not appropriate. Drummond played 139 games between 1883-99 and scored 36 goals (note how many he scored in this game) including a hat trick on his debut, at 18, against Accrington FC, the original club.

Half the team obliged but five didn't, Harry Daft (seriously), David Calderhead, Tom McLean, John Hendry and keeper George Toone. There were of course 11 opposition players from Preston.

The County lads appealed to the ref to end the game, if not for lack of numbers but due to the weather that was "closing in". The ref refused and they had to play out the game. Of course, these days, 7 is the minimum numbers of players to complete a game....otherwise the game has to be abandoned.

The remaining County 5 played a remarkable offside trap and caught the marauding Preston forwards offside continuously. When they got through, County's Toone had a special game between the sticks! It didn't continue like that as Drummond scored another goal to make it 6-0.
Drummond, from Edinburgh, played nearly 140 games for Preston, winning league and cup medals, before becoming the club's "trainer".

Preston, who were paying players in those early days (often Scots who had nipped down over the border) won the first ever Division One League Championship in 1888-9, by 11 points, County came 11th out of 12. The Invincibles won the division again the next season, were runners-up in 1890-1, 1891-2, 1892-3 and the bubble eventually burst when they came 14/16 in 1893-4.

FRIDAY 13th!! BIG SCORES AND PAST BLOGS

On the 13th December 1930 Huddersfield Town were in the First Division (top one) and they scored 10 against Blackpool who managed 1.
On the same day, Sheffield Wednesday couldn't quite make that scoreline managing only 9 as Birmingham City responded with 1 only.

Previous December 13th blogs are linked below:
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2018/12/looking-for-eric.html
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2017/12/tin-miners-and-deflated-balls.html
https://baileyfootballblog.blogspot.com/2016/12/rich-rewards-for-richards.html

On April 4th 1892, top flight big margin in the First Division was achieved by West Bromwich Albion managing 12-0 against Darwen who were also in the top flight then. 
Poor Darwen were on their knees at that end of the season, having played 26 games (14 only in the division) winning 4 drawing 3 and losing 19 scoring 38 and conceding 112, Points 11.
Albion were only 12th, 7 points higher.
Photo from 1879-80, winners of the Lancashire Cup.

Darwen FC founded 1870, joined the Football League in 1891 lasting just 8 seasons. They joined the Lancashire League in 1900 and was "wound up" in 2008-9 reforming as AFC Darwen.

In 1909 on April 21st Nottingham Forest beat Leicester Fosse 12-0 in a top flight game (First Division). Forest came 14th in a 20 strong First Division and Fosse were last, conceding 102 goals. They did score 54 goals.

Chesterfield FC hold a record for scoring in the most successive Football League games, starting on Christmas Day 1929 and ending n December 27th 1930, netting in 46 consecutive matches in Division Three (North). The Spireites ended 11th in the 1928-9 season and 4th in the next one.

Peter Lorenzo once commentated that "Hodge scored for Forest after only 22 seconds and I have to say it was completely against the run of play" BBC Radio.

HOWARD'S WAY

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/howards-way-review-109-minute-17236644
A new film, reviewed above by the link,  has its debut this week, with Howard Kendall the star of the show, supported by members Everton Football Club's successful team.
"The Blues' Brothers", directed by Rob Slowman, follows the Everton team during the 1980s, certainly their best period (so far), managed by Howard Kendall.
Kendall was a "father figure" and a "nice man" as described by his ambitious players, but he gainjed success on the field and off it. he knew how to treat highly charged professionals, having been one himself, so card games like "Chase the £" on the coach and a drink after a game were part of the menu.
Everton won trophies (see above) and might have enjoyed more European success had Heysel not interfered with European ambitions.
In Liverpool there will be a Blue colour dominating the urban landscape, illuminating the monolith at St George's Hall.

Kendall, born in Ryton, Durham, died in 2105 aged 69.

Aided by players such as Alan Ball and Colin Harvey, Kendall and his Toffee mates were known as "The Holy Trinity".
Playing record:
Preston 1963, Everton 1967 (229 apps), Birmingham 1974, Stoke 1977, Blackburn R 1979, Everton 1981, 613 apps in total)
Managing record:
Blackburn  1979, Everton 1981, Athletico Bilbao 1987, Man City 1989, Everton 1990, Xanthi 1994, Notts County 1993, Sheffield Utd 1995, Everton 1997, Ethniko Piraeus 1998-9 = 866 games.

League Managers "Hall of Fame" and England Manager of the Year 1984-5 and 86-7, Premier League M of Month Jan 1998.

BALD EAGLES-JOURNEYMEN

Sadly, within days of each other, two of our long serving and best respected  managers have died; both of them known for their hair styles, or lack of.

Ron Saunders, I saw as an old fashioned centre forward playing at Fratton Park for  Portsmouth in the late 1950s. He was losing it then!
Ron died on December 7th, aged 87, with a record of nearly 400 match appearances and over 200 goals. He was a prolific goalscorer. His career began at Tonbridge Angels and then a huge step to Everton in 1951. He then went to Everton, Gillingham, Portsmouth (1958-64) with 236 games under his belt. He had a short stay at Watford and then two years at Charlton Athletic, retiring in 1967. He played for 16 years.

After time on the pitch, Ron managed from 1974 until 1987, creating a record by looking after Aston Villa, Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion, a Midlands hat trick.
He had success at Villa with Football League Cups in 1975 and 1977, then the First Division (top div then) in 1980-1.
Prior to that he managed at Yeovil Town, Oxford Utd, Norwich city (2nd Div title) and Man City in 1973.

Jim Smith was 79 when he died recfently and although he had a modest playing career, starting at local club, Sheffield Utd, but not recording any games, he was a journeyman, who learned much about the game on his travels.
Next, he was playing at Aldershot in 1961, Halifax Town, Lincoln City, Boston Utd and Colchester in 1973, amounting 372 apps with 8 goals only!

He then managed around 1500 games, with 9 clubs, over 39 years.
He worked at Birmingham City from 1969 as player-manager,
Boston Utd: won Eastern Professional Floodlit League Cup 1972
Here Jim took Boston to the top of the Northern Premier League over three seasons and to the FA Cup 3rd Rd proper in 1972. He set a professional club record with 51 unbeaten games and
was signed by Colchester Utd (1972-5) who won the Football League 4th Div promotion 1974.
He went to Blackburn Rovers 1975-8,
Birmingham City (1978-82): in 1978 he was stepping into Alf Ramsey's shoes, as he resigned and Jim signed Trevor Francis as the first £1 million footballer. 
Winning the FL 2nd Div Promotion 1980

Then at Oxford United (1982-5): FLeague 3rd and 2nd Div promotion 1984,1985 to TOP FLIGHT.
Next QPR (1985-8), Newcastle Utd 1988-91, Portsmouth 1991-5, Derby County:FL 1st Div 1996 until 2001.
Then Coventry 2002, Portsmouth 2002, linking up with Harry Redknapp, gaining promotion to the Premier League 2002-3 and Harry then took him to Southampton 2004.

Jim finished at Oxford Utd 2006-8 (caretaker). He became the League Managers' Association  Chief Executive in 1995.
Remember all that?

LIFE AND DEATH

This is a bit contrived, but last night I watched Chris Tarrant travelling on a train through Turkey. Very entertaining.
This day, on December 10th 2016, a car bomb was exploded at the Vodafone Arena, in Istanbul, hosting a league match between Besiktas and Bursaspor football where 38 supporters were killed and 166 injured.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38276794

From death to new beginnings, Lucien Laurent (above) was born on December 10th 1907. He played for France against England in May 1931 and in another 9 internationals. His first club was Sochaux, which was a Peugeot Workers' Club at the time and he was an amateur, but was compensated by the French FA when he turned out for the national team, in the first ever World Cup tournament. This was the dream of two Frenchmen, Henri Delaunay and Jules Rimet.
Laurent scored with a volley in the 19th minute against Mexico, the "FIRST EVER GOAL" scored in a World Cup at the Estadio Pocitos. It was his only international goal.
The game, played on July 13th 1930, resulted in a 4-1 win to France. The French then lost both their next games to Argentina and Chile.

Lucien was in the French Armed Forces in World War 2, survived and was able to watch his national team win the 1998 World Cup on home soil, the only player remaining from that 1930 squad.

The French captain, Alex Villaplane, was executed in 1944, after the liberation of France, for collaborating with the enemy.

BTW the teams to play in this first World Cup were:-
Group 1:France, Mexico, Argentina (runners up), Chile,
Group 2: Brazil, Yugoslavia, Bolivia
Group 3: Romania, Peru, Uruguay (won trophy)
Group 4: Belgium, USA, Paraguay
Bit one sided, continentally.

A new sporting life was also born on December 10th 1935. This was Terry Allcock, who was the Yorkshire Schoolboys' captain and an England Schoolboy international, before he made his debut for Bolton Wanderers in October 1953 and went on to play at Norwich City.
He also played First Class Cricket for Norfolk, as a wicket keeper, batsman between 1959-75. He played alongside the well known radio commentator, Henry Blofeld.
Terry's retirement from sport ended with a career in a local family Funeral Service.


Do not mix Terence Allcock with Terrence Alcock who played over 300 senior games for Port Vale, Blackpool and others between 1963-78, before running pubs in the Burscough area.