Just as our weather is likely to turn unpleasant over the next 24 hours, I wonder if my club will play any league games this weekend? This story is a day late, but blame the Honest Dodworth lads for that. See last blog.
1904-5 was the 17th season of the Football League (formed 1888-9).
On the 26th November 1904, a match between home team, Woolwich Arsenal (as they were known then, the first London club to perform in the top division) and Everton, was abandoned after 76 minutes due to fog. The Toffees were leading 1-3. The match was eventually replayed just before the end of the season, when Everton had to play three games in four days. Everton lost 2-1. If the original match had been complete and with the same scoreline. Everton would have pipped Newcastle Utd to the 1904-5 League Division One Championship by one point. As it was they came runners up. United won their first title and Aston Villa won the FA Cup.
Small Heath, later to be called Birmingham City, The Wednesday (guess who?) and Woolwich Arsenal were part of that Division. Bury and Notts County (last) came bottom of the table but were saved from relegation by the readjustment of the Football League.
Two divisions of 20 were formed including Gainsborough Trinity (now in the Northern Premier)
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