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 […]