Yes I know its all a bit contrived but you yo trying doing this daily for the number of years that I have and see how you get on! Don't mention it!
Ben Stokes looks as though he could wheel a leg around a football pitch but it is Stoke that gets the vote and ......
Below is a nice link to those football/cricket doubles (which I have certainly mentioned before but hey ho some of my thousands of readers might not have seen this. Its good for a Christmas quiz if you are so inclined!)
http://footballsite.co.uk/DYK/DYK22-Cricket.htm
On December 16th 1899 two Englishmen and some Swiss pals, living in Milan were keen to get a bit of cricket and football going in the Italian city, so they gathered a few ex-pats and few immigrants to have fun. Herbert Kilpin and Alfred Edwards formed the Milan Cricket and Football Club, not calling it Milano (the Italian version) and so the name Milan stuck with the football club, AC Milan, in Italian history. AC Milan eventually rested the Italian championship from Genoa in 1901. In 1908 the Italian Football Federation were so fed up with the dominance of teams populated by foreigners that they excluded Genoa, Milan and Torino from the national competition. The officials eventually agreed to rescind the "ban" in return for thr official use of the word "calcio" for the name of the game rather than the English "football". Calcio means "I kick".
On December 16th 1961, Spurs' inside forward, Jimmy Greaves scored a debut hat trick for Spurs, in a 5-2 win over Blackpool in the 1st Division (top one) at White Hart Lane, one goal a spectacular flying scissors kick. This season they won the FA Cup and came third in the league.
It wasn't the first time that JG has scored a debut hat trick for a club!
I bet you spotted the link? of course Greaves went to AC Milan on June 1961, staying for less than a year. He scored in his first game against Botafogo in a 2-2 draw. Greaves then signed for West Ham and managed two goals on his debut on March 21st 1970.
Greaves, sporting AC Milan colours, scored 366 goals in top flight football had his record beaten by Cristiano Ronaldo in 2017. JGs career tailed off at Brentwood Town, Chelmsford City, Barnet and Woodford Town FC.
And on this date 2017, Sunderland beat Fulham 1-0 in the Championship, their first home win since beating Watford 1-0 on December 17th 2016, having gone 21 league and cup games without a win at the Stadium of Light. A WHOLE YEAR.
AND FINALLY....I haven't mentioned Stoke!
Well on March 27th (my birthday) the famous amateur club Corinthians (not the Brazilians) played Stoke as they were known then, on their "northern" tour in 1882-3, the first season of their foundation, losing 4-5. The previous tour games were against Accrington (3-4), Church (2-0) and Bootle (2-0); the tour was designed to bring football to the north!!! to stimulate Association Football at a time when the Scots were beating England during the first decades of internationals:
Results from 1872-England first:
0-0, 4-2, 1-2, 2-2, 0-3, 1-3, 2-7, 5-4, 4-5 (1880), 1-6, 1-5, 2-3, 0-1, 1-1, 1-1, 2-3, 5-0, 2-3, 1-1(1890)
Then: 2-1, 4-1, 5-2, 2-2, 3-0, 1-2, 1-2, 3-1, 2-1, 1-4 (1900)..........
The Scots were professional in their approach to the game and filtered across the border to play for the north-western clubs which were paying money. The south remained amateur for a number of years, so something had to be done. Here are some of the chaps. The Corinthian Club merged with the Casuals to form the Corinthian-Casuals, a club that plays in the BetVictor Isthmian Premier.
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