LISTENING TO TALKSPORT and TRACING THE IRONS OUT OF THE FL

It's Good Friday and an opportunity for the Football League to bare its "chest". Plenty of league matches going on, so with a few fixtures left, the results are quite important to the ups and downs. The club is Nicknamed "The Irons" after the region's Iron Industry....Geographers/Economists etc etc should be nodding their heads knowingly.

Here is a clip from the Irons' match at Forest Green on April 2nd. It's not going their way:https://www.skysports.com/football/forest-green-rovers-vs-scunthorpe-united/report/448912

NEXT: April 9th: Mansfield moved up to fourth place in League Division 2, with a 4-0 win at bottom side Scunthorpe, leaving "The Irons" 72-year stay in the English Football League teetering on the brink.

 

Here is the clip:

https://www.skysports.com/football/scunthorpe-united-vs-mansfield-town/report/448930

Only Oldham and Barrow's failure to win, granted Scunthorpe what is likely to be a brief stay of execution, and play was held up for four minutes in the second half as around 30 disgruntled fans entered the pitch, shortly after a number of tennis balls had been thrown from the stands.

Results elsewhere may have spared the Iron's fate this day, but a first-ever stint in the National League is all-but inevitable with Scunthorpe 13 points from safety with only 15 left to play for.

Scunthorpe is the worst club in the EFL, 13 points behind their nearest rivals. Their results do not make good reading.........

Date                        H/A  Opponent         KO/Score            Attd        Scorers

Sat 7 Aug               H Swindon Town  (0)1 - 3(0)              3,602      Loft (pen)

Sat 14 Aug             A Rochdale            (0)0 - 0(0)              2,679     

Tue 17 Aug            A Walsall                (0)1 - 1(0)             4,009      Beestin

Sat 21 Aug             H Sutton United   (0)1 - 1(0)              2,429      Scrimshaw

Sat 28 Aug             H Tranmere R      (1)1 - 0(0)               2,737      Hippolyte (pen)

Sat 4 Sep               A Northampton T (0)0 - 2(0)              4,870     

Sat 11 Sep             H Exeter City        (0)0 - 4(1)              2,443     

Sat 18 Sep             A Carlisle United  (2)2 - 2(0)              4,499      Onariase

Sat 25 Sep             H Port Vale           (0)0 - 1(1)              2,513     

Sat 2 Oct               A Newport County (0)0 - 3(1)            3,213     

Sat 9 Oct               A Harrogate T      (0)1 - 6(5)               3,180      Davis

Sat 16 Oct             H Forest Green    (0)0 - 2(0)               2,140     

Tue 19 Oct            A Barrow               (1)1 - 1(0)              2,739      Taft

Sat 23 Oct             H Crawley Town   (1)2 - 1(0)              2,112      Francomb (og), Scrimshaw

Sat 30 Oct             A Colchester Utd  (0)1 - 2(2)              2,433      Davis

Sat 13 Nov            H Salford City        (1)1 - 1(0)             2,614      Loft

Sat 20 Nov            A Mansfield Tow  (1)1 - 3(2)               4,904      Hippolyte (pen)

Tue 23 Nov           H Leyton Orient   (0)1 - 1(1)              2,067      Scrimshaw

Sat 27 Nov            H Bradford City    (1)1 - 1(0)             3,823     

Tue 7 Dec              A Stevenage         (1)1 - 1(1)                1,808      Hippolyte

Sat 11 Dec             A Hartlepool Utd (0)0 - 0(0)               4,809     

Sun 26 Dec             A Oldham Athletic (0)3 - 1(1)            4,363      Loft (2), Hippolyte

Sat 1 Jan                H Carlisle United  (0)0 - 1(1)             3,020     

Sat 8 Jan                A Tranmere Rovers (0)0 - 4(2)          6,056     

Sat 15 Jan              A Exeter City         (0)0 - 2(0)            4,676     

Sat 22 Jan              H Newport County (0)0 - 1(0)           2,604     

Tue 25 Jan             H Bristol Rovers     (0)2 - 3(1)           2,403      Burns (2)

Sat 29 Jan              A Port Vale (0)0 - 1(0)                        5,467     

Sat 5 Feb               H Oldham Athletic (0)0 - 1(0)            5,014     

Tue 8 Feb              H Walsall (1)1 - 0(0)                            2,123     Rowe

Sat 12 Feb             A Swindon Town  (0)0 - 3(0)              9,012     

Sat 19 Feb             H Rochdale (1)1 - 2(0)                        2,548      Onariase

Tue 22 Feb            H Northampton Town (0)0 - 0(0)      2,355     

Sat 26 Feb             A Sutton United  (0)1 - 4(3)               2,870      (og)

Sat 5 Mar              A Crawley Town   (0)0 - 0(0)              2,144     

Sat 12 Mar            H Colchester United (1)1 - 3(0)         2,427      Nuttall

Tue 15 Mar           H Barrow               (0)0 - 1(1)              2,009     

Sat 19 Mar            A Salford City        (0)1 - 5(2)             1,972      Nuttall

Sat 26 Mar            H Harrogate Town (0)0 - 3(1)            2,317     

Sat 2 Apr               A Forest Green Rovers (0)0 - 1(0)      2,484     

Sat 9 Apr               H Mansfield Town (0)0 - 4(3)             4,015     

Fri 15 Apr              A Leyton Orient   3 – 0 down @ 87 mins……..   if they lose this, they leave the FL.                     

Mon 18 Apr          H Stevenage                  FOUR TO GO!!!                        

Sat 23 Apr             A Bradford City                                    

Sat 30 Apr             H Hartlepool United                           

Sat 7 May              A Bristol Rovers                 

Scunthorpe United was formed in 1899. In 1910 they merged with local rivals North Lindsey United to become Scunthorpe & Lindsey United and joined the Midland League in 1912. There was an unsuccessful application to join the FL in 1921, when it expanded but to no avail. Scunthorpe & Lindsey stayed in the  Midland League and won it in 1926–27 and in 1938–39. When the 1939–40 season came to an abrupt end, due to the war, Scunthorpe & Lindsey finished as runners-up in the second emergency competition.

After the end of the war, in 1945, Scunthorpe & Lindsey United re-applied to join the Football League at every opportunity. The club finished as runners-up in the Midland League in 1947–48, and in 1950 was eventually accepted into the Football League, when the league structure was expanded. After an unremarkable few years in the Football League, the "& Lindsey" was dropped from the club's name in 1958.

The club's first League game on the 19th August 1950 in the Third Division North, at home, was against fellow new entrants Shrewsbury Town; a 0-0 draw! They lost the next fixture away 3-1. They didn't meet again until 1964.

Glanford Park, their home ground was completed in 1988, it was the first new purpose-built FL stadium to be built in England for 33 years, since Southend Utd moved to Roots Hall in 1955.

The stadium is Scunthorpe's second ground, with the Iron having previously played at the Old Show Ground  from 1899 to 1988. Notable past payers include Kevin Keegan, Ray Clemence and Ian Botham!

Sadly The Irons (Scunny) will leave the FL today and be transported to the National League. Can you name the clubs in the NL who have played in the FL?