On December 12th 1891, an attendance of 300 watched Preston North End 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.
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born in Edinburgh in 1865, was a utility player, including playing as a left wing AND A GOALKEEPER. Drummond played for St Bernard's before joining Preston North End.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.
St Bernard's Football Club were a football club based in Edinburgh, Scotland. The club was established in 1878 and joined the Scottish Football League Their biggest success came in winning the 1894-5 Cup Scottish Final. They played at several different grounds before making the Royal Gymnasium Ground, their long-term home. However, after having to sell it in 1943, the club was dissolved
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On 15 December 1982, England got goals from a record number of scorers when they beat Luxembourg 9-0 in a European qualifier. And one of them wasn't English.
The match, at Wembley, was the third of the qualification campaign for both teams, with England taking a win and draw in their previous two and Luxembourg losing both of theirs. It was no surprise when the hosts took a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute, though the scorer's identity may have been—Luxembourg's Marcel Bossi who put the ball into his own net while trying to clear a square ball from Luther Blissett.
It was only the beginning of what turned out to be the most lopsided result of the campaign for either team. By the break, England were up 4-0 with additional goals from Steve Coppell (22'), Tony Woodcock (34'), and Blissett (44'). Blissett scored twice more in the second half (62', 86') along with Mark Chamberlain (71'), Glenn Hoddle (87'), and Phil Neal (89') to stretch the final margin to 9-0.
The seven different scorers (including Bossi's own goal) set an England record for the largest number of scorers in a single match. England ultimately finished second to Denmark in the group and missed out on qualifying for the tournament.
The match, at Wembley, was the third of the qualification campaign for both teams, with England taking a win and draw in their previous two and Luxembourg losing both of theirs. It was no surprise when the hosts took a 1-0 lead in the 18th minute, though the scorer's identity may have been—Luxembourg's Marcel Bossi who put the ball into his own net while trying to clear a square ball from Luther Blissett.
It was only the beginning of what turned out to be the most lopsided result of the campaign for either team. By the break, England were up 4-0 with additional goals from Steve Coppell (22'), Tony Woodcock (34'), and Blissett (44'). Blissett scored twice more in the second half (62', 86') along with Mark Chamberlain (71'), Glenn Hoddle (87'), and Phil Neal (89') to stretch the final margin to 9-0.
The seven different scorers (including Bossi's own goal) set an England record for the largest number of scorers in a single match. England ultimately finished second to Denmark in the group and missed out on qualifying for the tournament.
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