Football On This Day – 26th May 1982
Goalkeeper Nigel Spink joined Aston Villa in 1977 and made his League debut on Boxing Day 1979 in the defeat at Nottingham Forest. He had to wait until 26th May 1982 for his second appearance in the first team.....playing for Aston Villa in the European Cup Final! He came on as a sub in the 10th minute when injury forced first choice goalkeeper, Jimmy Rimmer, to leave the action against favourites Bayern Munich in the final played in Rotterdam. The goalkeeper played a blinder, keeping a clean sheet while Peter Withe scored the only goal to see Villa crowned as European champions - the sixth season in a row that an English team had won Europe's top club competition.
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So with Charlton 1-5 down and one man down with less than half an hour remaining many Charlton fans in the 12,535 crowd took the opportunity for some last-minute Christmas shopping. They missed a Christmas miracle. Two minutes after Huddersfield's fifth goal it was back to 3-5 with goals from Buck Ryan and Johnny Summers. Summers then added three more in eight minutes to put Charlton 6-5 ahead. With four minutes remaining Stan Howard equalised for the Yorkshiremen before Buck Ryan hit the winner for the home side with seconds remaining. An amazing 7-6 victory for Charlton - the only time that scoreline has been recorded in the Football League.
https://www.11v11.com/teams/lincoln-city/tab/matches/season/1958/ WORTH A LOOK!
Sunderland were 1-5 down at home to Liverpool at half-time in a First Division fixture on Saturday January 19th 1907 but fought back to draw 5-5.
Two years later on Saturday 4th December 1909 it was Liverpool who were on a hiding, losing 2-5 at half-time at home to Newcastle United. But at the full-time whistle they had turned it round to a 6-5 victory.
A few other older notable fight-backs in the League....Syd Reid had scored 4 goals to help Luton Town to a 5-1 half-time lead in the Third Division (South) match at the County Ground against Northampton Town on Boxing Day 1927. But at the final whistle Northampton were the victors 6-5.
Another late fight-back in the Second Division in the 1957/58 season. With six matches of the League season left Lincoln City looked certs for relegation - they were bottom of the table, five points adrift of the club above them (with only 2 points for a win) and had only won five league matches all season. In fact they had lost their last nine matches and it it was 18 league matches since they last won but remarkably they won their last six matches of the season to escape the drop by a single point.
Charlton were no strangers to remarkable scorelines around in those days. On Saturday October 22nd 1960 they drew 6-6 with Middlesbrough at the Valley - only the second time that scoreline has been recorded in the Football League. Three weeks previous to that Johnny Summers hit another five goals in the 7-4 home victory over Portsmouth. In November 1959 they suffered their worst-ever League defeat - 1-11 at Aston Villa - while six weeks before that they had lost 4-6 at Plymouth. Amazingly the following season two more 6-4 results against Plymouth - winning the home match on Boxing Day 1960 6-4 but losing the return match played a day later at Home Park 4-6. Those were the days!
Hull fans were streaming out of Boothferry Park on Boxing Day 1970 when the Tigers were 1-4 down to Sheffield Wednesday with just 8 minutes to play of a Division 2 fixture. Hull fought back to draw 4-4 - and they hit the woodwork in the last minute.
Another League Cup tie with an unexpected ending was the Second Round tie between Second Division Watford and First Division Southampton in the 1980/81 season. After Southampton had won the first leg 4-0 at The Dell the odds were heavily against Watford in the second leg despite Kevin Keegan being absent from the Saints' side due to injury. But Watford had other ideas! The Hornets were 2-0 up at half time and 5-1 in the lead at the end of 90 minutes with even the one Southampton goal being scored by an og by a Watford player! Extra time followed with Watford scoring two more to win 7-1 on the night and 7-5 on aggregate.
On QPR's artificial pitch at Loftus Road visitors Newcastle United were 4-0 at half-time in a First Division fixture on Saturday September 22nd 1984. By the time of the final whistle it was 5-5.
At Fratton Park on New Year's Day 1985, Portsmouth took a 4-0 half-time lead over Fulham before the Londoners fought back to draw 4-4. Hangover cure?
In an amazing match at Elland Road on Saturday April 13th 1991, Liverpool had a 4-0 half-time lead over Leeds but the final score was Leeds 4 Liverpool 5. Lee Chapman scored a hat-trick for Leeds and had another disallowed for a foul on the keeper.
At St Andrews on Easter Monday (April 12th) 1993, Birmingham City led Swindon Town 4-1 in a First Division fixture with just 30 minutes remaining - but Swindon were 6-4 winners at the final whistle. Collapse or what?
At Villa Park on Wednesday February 22nd 1995, Aston Villa led Leicester City 4-1 with just 13 minutes remaining of the Premiership match but THE FOXES fought back to draw 4-4.
In a First Division on Saturday March 9th 1996, Barnsley were leading Ipswich Town 3-0 with just 6 minutes of the match remaining. At Oakwell, the visitors fought back to draw 3-3. The maggot farm behind the far stand stunk as badly as ever. (maggots were for fishing I believe).
Manchester United's attempt to win the Champions League for the first time looked doomed to failure at the Nou Camp, Barcelona. They went behind against Bayern Munich after just six minutes and that was still the score as the final whistle approached. Then amazingly came goals from subs Teddy Sherringham in the first minute of injury time and Ole Gunnar Solskjær a minute later and the Champions League trophy joined the Premier League trophy and FA Cup in the Old Trafford trophy cupboard.
On Saturday September 29th 2001, Spurs were 3-0 up half time against Manchester United at White Hart Lane in a Premier League fixture. At the full-time whistle it was Tottenham 3 Manchester United 5. SPURSY or what?!
Some 2500 Peterborough United fans headed home at half time when the home side ended the half 0-4 down to Cardiff City on Boxing Day 2009 in a Championship match. Yep, you've guessed it - at the final whistle it was 4-4.
Arsenal visited Newcastle for a Premier League match on Saturday 5th February 2011 and were set for a cricket score. One-nil up in the first minute and four-nil to the good in 26 minutes, how many more could they score? In the second half, Arsenal had a player dismissed and then conceded two penalties. At full time it was 4-4 ALSO.
24th January 2015, in the Championship, bottom club Blackpool were set to record a surprising first away win of the season at promotion-chasing Watford when they were 2-0 up at the break. By the time the full-time whistle had blown normal service was resumed - Watford had won 7-2 with Odion Ighalo grabbing four.
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