30th JANUARY 1937 AND RAICH CARTER

On 30 January 1937, home sides either won or drew all 35 FA Cup ties and Football League matches.

Of the 16 FA Cup matches that day, only one involved two top-ten First Division clubs, as 6th place Derby County rolled to a comfortable 3-0 win over 3rd place Brentford in the FA Cup. 

Other First Division match-ups in the Cup included 15th place Preston North End hammering 14th place Stoke City 5-1, 10th place Everton beating 19th place Sheffield Wednesday 3-0, and 1st place Arsenal crushing 22nd place Manchester United, 5-0. Both Sheffield Wednesday and Manchester United would end the season in the two relegation spots.

Arsenal's margin of victory was the largest in the Cup that day, but was both matched and exceeded in Division Two, where Blackburn beat Newcastle 6-1 and, in the day's most lopsided result, Blackpool rode over Bradford Park Avenue, 6-0.

Meanwhile, Luton Town provided the Cup's shock of the day, as the Third Division South side held reigning League champions, Sunderland to a 2-2 draw. Two other Third Division South teams provided upsets, as Millwall defeated First Division Chelsea 3-0 and Exeter City beat Second Division Leicester City 3-1. Exeter's victory looked even more impressive at the end of the season, as Leicester won the Second Division, while Exeter finished 21st in the Third Division South.

Four Cup matches went to replays, including York City's scoreless draw at Swansea. It was part of a pattern for York, who had earned home replays in the two previous rounds. But the pattern broke with Swansea, who won at York, 1-3. In fact, the visiting teams won three of the four replays for that round, with the only exception being Sunderland's 3-1 victory over Luton. 

Sunderland (pictured above) went on to win the FA Cup that year, beating Preston North End 3-1, in the Final. A 93,495 crowd watched this. Sunderland captain...Horatio Stratton Carter lifted the Cup , presented to him by The Queen (Elizabeth 2's mother). In this Coronation Year. Raich had married fiancee, Rosie, on the last day of April in 1937 and then "honeymooned" with his team in the Final, a few hours later! 

Sunderland had won the First Division title (top one at the time) the season before, so Carter had a League Winner's Medal, an FA Cup Winner's Medal, a place in the England team, was captain of his home town team and lovely wife...all at 23 years old.

Tommy Lawton, the England centre forward at the time, of some ability!! said that Raich shot as if he hated both the ball and the goalkeeper. His team were a goal down at half time but scored three in the second half to secure victory, one through Carter himself.

The War interfered with his history in football!

*Raich also played cricket briefly for Derbyshire in 1946.

Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1931–1939	Sunderland*	245	(118)
1945–1948	Derby County	63	(34)
1948–1952	Hull City	136	(57)
1953	Cork Athletic	9	(3)
International career
1934–1947	England	13	(7)
Managerial career
1948–1951	Hull City
1953	Cork Athletic
1953–1958	Leeds United
1960–1963	Mansfield Town
1963–1966	Middlesbrough