On This Day – 24th November

Former Wigan Athletic chairman Dave Whelan was born on this day in 1936. He owned the Lancashire club for 20 years before handing the reigns to his grandson David Sharpe in 2015. Whelan played for Blackburn Rovers and Crewe Alexandra as a left back before having to retire from the game at the age of […]

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Heroes & Villains – Grimsby Town

The bumper crowd at Old Trafford for Grimsby’s 1939 FA Cup Semi-Final with Wolves Heroes – FA Cup teams of 1935/36 and 1938/39Both of these teams reached the FA Cup Semi-Final and is the furthest that any Grimsby Town side have ever got in their 142 year history.Jackie Bestall, Harry Betmead and goalkeeper George Tweedy […]

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