1908

 Just occasionally I struggle for a topic and today was one. But thanks to Bob Weighton who on 29th March 1908 was born in Yorkshire and he is our oldest person at 110 years old. There have been older, no longer with us and of course the World can provide many others too.
A Frenchwoman Jeanne Calment reached 122 years, American Sarah Knauss 119 and our oldest woman is Bessie Camm at 113. The oldest people seem to come from Japan, Italy, USA, Puerto Rico and Spain. Anything to do with diet?

In 1908, Wolverhampton Wanderers won the FA Cup beating Newcastle United 3-1 at the Crystal Palace. Wolves, a middle of the road Second Division side, beat the most successful side of the  Edwardian era. The TYKES were league champions in 1905, 07 and 09. They had also lost in two Cup finals in 1905 and 1906. The Newcastle side had most of the play and Wolves scored twice in five minutes just before half time.

The First Division was won by Manchester United with Newcastle coming 4th, 10 points behind. Wolves were 9th in Division Two.
Clubs in the First Division included Wednesday, Bury, Bristol City, Woolwich Arsenal and Notts County. Much has changed. There were only TWO divisions and Glossop NE, Clapton Orient, Leicester Fosse, Gainsborough, Leeds City made up part of the second tier.

England played internationals against Ireland, Wales and Scotland as usual winning 3-1, 7-1 and drawing 1-1.
They also beat Austria 6-1 and 11-1. Hungary 7-0 and Bohemia 4-0 on tour.

Bob Crompton of Blackburn Rovers capped 41 times for England, was probably the first professional footballer to drive his own car to training in 1908!