19th January 1933: In their second Football League season, Mansfield Town suffered what is still their record League defeat on Thursday 19th January 1933, when losing 1-8 at Walsall in a Third Division (North) encounter. Amazingly just a few matches earlier - on Tuesday 27th December 1932 - they beat Rotherham 9-2 at Field Mill, to record what is still their record League victory. A month between a club recording their long-standing record League win and record League defeat is very much unique! I have to say though, Mansfield had some amazing results in 1932/33 with the sequence of League results around those two matches being very strange :
11 matches: 3-6, 0-3, 9-2, 2-5, 0-6, 2-1, 1-8, 1-3, 2-0, 0-7, 2-5. (F22 A46) You were never going to get bored watching them were you! In 1933, Mansfield Town FC was in its second Football League season (1932-33), becoming the first club to offer installment payments for season tickets, in the Summer 1933; the following 1933-34 season saw the club have a 17th-place finish and a manager change from Jack Hickling to Harry Martin in December 1933.
- FA Cup (1933-34): Lost in the first round replay to New Brighton.
- Players: Notable players included centre-half Leslie Butler, who joined in 1932 and played two seasons, and goalscorer, Harry Johnson.
- In essence, 1933 was a year of mixed results, record-setting highs and lows, and pioneering financial initiatives for Mansfield Town as they established themselves in the Football League's northern section.
On This Same Day - 19th January but in 1952, Oldham Athletic beat Chester 11-2 at Boundary Park in a Football League Division 3 (North) match, Eric Gemmell scoring seven of them, which remains a club scoring record. Amazingly though Oldham weren't good enough to win promotion that season and Chester weren't bad enough to have to seek re-election. Just two run-of-the-mill teams, sharing 13 goals - those were the days!
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