Apologies that this is a day late. I thought that I’d do the article anyway as it is important to do one for every day. Bill Shankly became Carlisle United manager on this day in 1949. It was his first job in football management, a career that lasted fifteen years and saw him becoming one […]
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On This Day – 29th January
Yeovil Town of the Southern League provided one of the greatest FA Cup shocks of all-time on this day in 1949, beating First Division Sunderland 2-1. The match was played at Yeovil’s Huish Park, famous for its sloping pitch, and the amateur side used this to their advantage to record a famous win. Sunderland had […]
On This Day – 2nd December
Alf Ramsey made his England debut on this day in 1948 in a 6-0 win over Switzerland at Highbury. He is better known for his managerial career but this was the first of 32 caps that he would win as a player. The match against Switzerland was played on a Thursday afternoon at Highbury. It […]
On This Day – 23rd April
Portsmouth’s Peter Harris goes close in the title-clinching game at Burnden Park Portsmouth won the First Division for the first and only time in their history in the 1948/49 season. They sealed the League title on this day back in 1949 with a 2-1 in over Bolton Wanderers at Burnden Park. A crowd of 28,816 […]