PINCH, PUNCH, LAST DAY OF THE MONTH

Last day of the month, April 30th....here's a match from 1938....the FA Cup Final involving Huddersfield Town and Preston North End. Anyone spotted that these two clubs have been mentioned in a final recently in this blog? 

Preston North End met Huddersfield Town at Wembley in front of 93,497. Preston's George Mutch scored the one goal, a penalty in the last minute of extra time, to sort out the winners. It wasn't the first time these two clubs had been at close quarters; have a look at yesterday's entry about the 1922 Cup Final. 

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/3994718670252035536/6142682424440666484?hl=en-GB

and this little gem.....https://www.hangerlondon.com/30th-april/ 

Mutch, a Scottish international, scored with a penalty that hit the underside of the square cross bar (as they were in those days) and bounced in. It was the final act of another poor but balanced cup final, shown for the first time by BBC television, with an estimated number of 10,000 viewers. Mutch had been brought down by Huddersfield's captain Alf Young...was it a foul? and was it inside the penalty area? The TV don't lie!

Mutch was dazed by the tackle, he couldn't swear where he was when it happened and was unsure why he was handed the ball for the spot kick....BILL SHANKLY, one of the Preston players told Mutch to "just hit the ruddy thing!".

Joe Hulme, of Town, (above) played his last first class game in his FIFTH Wembley final. He had played in four previous finals for Arsenal winning in 1930 (v Huddersfield 1-0) and 1936 (v Sheffield Utd 1-0), a runner up 1927 (the famous defeat by Cardiff City) and 1932 (loss to Newcastle Utd). Hulme then joining Huddersfield in January 1938, losing the final to Preston. An England international, he also played cricket for Middlesex and later managed Tottenham Hotspur.