On the 13th April, 1936, Joe Payne (centre-forward) scored 10 (ten) goals for Luton Town who beat Bristol Rovers in a Division 3 South match. The Hatters won 12-0. Joe scored 83 goals in 72 appearances for Luton, 21 goals in 36 for Chelsea and 6 in 10 matches for West ham. He won one England cap v Finland on tour in May 1937 and scored twice.
On the 15th April 1961 Jimmy Greaves scored a hat trick for England at Wembley against Scotland for whom Frank Haffey had a nightmare. It was 9-3 to England in the end. Haffey only played twice for his country but did appear over 140 times for Celtic. He ended up playing in Australia and became a cabaret singer! here's Jimmy sticking one past Frank.
On April 16th 1975, another top goalscorer, Malcolm MacDonald, popped in 5 for England as they demolished the powerful Cyprus 5-0 in a Euro qualifier.
On the 14th April 1984, a crowd of 20,000 came to watch Plymouth Argyle take on Watford in the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park. It wasn't going to be their day, though, Argyle lost, but only just, 0-1. Watford and Elton John went on to lose 0-2 to Everton at Wembley.
The Argyle did it the hard way:
Round 1- Southend 0-0, 2-0, Rd 2 Barking 2-1, Rd 3 Notts County 2-2, 0-1, Rd 4 Darlington 2-1,
Rd 5 WBA 0-1, Rd 6 Derby 0-0, 0-1.
Of course, on 15th April 1989, the Hillsborough disaster occurred and the game was stopped at 3.06 pm. Liverpool and Nottingham Forest played again later and Liverpool went on to meet Everton in the "Requiem Final"
On April 13th in 1996, Alex Ferguson was unhappy with his United who were 0-3 down to Southampton at the Dell and he blamed the grey away kit they were wearing. He quickly remedied that by changing into a BLUE in the second half and they only lost 1-3.
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