LOADS OF GOALS

Yesterday's thriller at Villa Park (28th November) saw the home team
score after 11,14, 36, 71 and 75 minutes while their visitors, Nottingham Forest scored at 3,6,22,51 and 82 minutes. The game "to and froed" with 3-3 at half time and 34,000 in the ground. There have been 127 games between the two clubs beginning in December 1880 in the FA Cup and Villa won away 1-2.
On the 12th November 1892 the teams fought out a 4-5 win for Forest away in the First Division.
Anniversary matches  have not been so exciting with a 2-2 draw in 1998 at Forest and a Villa victory 3-1 at home in 1981.
Villa have won 59 and drawn 30 games.

Boxing Day 1952 saw a nine goal thriller which involved West Bromwich Albion at Sheffield Wednesday, scoring only two goals in a nine goal thriller. Their other three goals came from the two opposing full backs and a Wednesday "half back". Over 59,500 saw them win 5-4.
The very next day, 27th December, at the Hawthorns, the Baggies lost 0-1 with over 52,500 watching.

21st April 1930 Leicester City drew with Arsenal in the First Division 6-6
On 21st December 1957 Charlton Athletic beat Huddersfield Town 7-6 and on  22nd October 1960 Charlton drew with Middlesbrough 6-6 in the Second Division.

Reading lost to Arsenal 5-7 in a Capital One League Cup tie on 31st October 2012. The Gunners were 0-4 down, scoring their first goal in added time tacked on to the first half. Theo Walcott scored 3 including the winner after extra time + 1 minute!

Manchester United beat Swindon Town 8-4 in the 4th Charity Shield on 25th September 1911 at Stamford Bridge with only 10,000 watching. United's Harold Halse scored 6, an individual record for Manchester United. And 60 years later George Best slotted 6 goals against Northampton Town on 7th February 1970 and equalled this club scoring record.
The Charity Shield was originally played from 1898 between the winners of the Football League and Southern League. The proceeds went to Charity and later went to the Titanic Fund. It has had a varied history and is known now as the Community Shield.

In the FA Cup Dulwich Hamlet beat St Albans City 8-7 in an FA Cup 4th Round Qualifying round on 22nd November 1922. They also drew with Wealdstone 7-7 in another 4th Round Qualifier on 16th November 1929.

In a Non-League, FA Vase 1st Round tie, on 20th October 2001, in the North-east of England, Washington Nissan hosted Billingham Synthonia which may be recorded as the "match of syllables". Like the syllables (well 5-7, not quite), it went to 6-6 after 90 minutes, then 9-6 to Synthonia and then Nissan scored one more 9-7.