The inaugural FA Cup Third Place Play-Off took place on this day in 1970 between losing semi-finalists Watford and Manchester United. The match was played at Highbury as a neutral venue. Manchester United were the match 2-0 in front of a crowd of only 15,105. United had lost to Leeds in their semi final and […]
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On This Day – 4th April
Bradford Park Avenue played their last Football League match on this day in 1970. The club had been in the Football League for sixty-two years before going bankrupt. They became the second club in eight years to drop out of the League after Accrington Stanley had left in early 1962. The home match against Scunthorpe […]
On This Day – 7th February
George Best went on a personal crusade against Northampton Town on this day in 1970, scoring six goals for Manchester United in an 8-2 win. United utterly dominated the FA Cup Fifth Round tie, played on a mudbath of a pitch at Northampton’s former County Ground home. A record crowd of just under 22,000 saw […]
On This Day – 15th November
This article might win you a point at a pub quiz one day! It was on this day back in 1969 that the first games was broadcast in technicolour on ‘Match of the Day’. Liverpool hosted West Ham United at Anfield and beat them 2-0. World Cup winners Geoff Hurst and Bobby Moore were in […]
On This Day – 5th November
Emlyn ‘Crazy Horse’ Hughes won the first of his 62 caps for England on this day back in 1969 as England beat Holland 1-0 in a friendly in Amsterdam.Hughes played as a left back and Colin Bell scored the only goal of the game with five minutes of the game left to play. Holland’s left […]
On This Day – 29th April
It was on this day 50 years ago that Chelsea and Leeds United played out one of the dirtiest matches in English footballing history. The two were contesting the FA Cup Final Replay which Chelsea won 2-1 in extra-time to lift the FA Cup for the first time in their history. The game is mainly […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.3
Sandy Brown heads the most famous own-goal in a Merseyside Derby Sandy Brown made 251 appearances for Everton between 1963 and 1971 but will forever be remembered for an own goal that he scored in one particular game. The own goal came in a 3-0 defeat to arch-rivals Liverpool on 6th December 1969 at Everton’s […]
On This Day – 10th April
Football has long been used for experiments over the years. Golden Goal, Silver Goal and kick-ins replaced throw-ins in the 1994/95 season in the lower leagues in England, Belgium and Hungary. One experiment trialled in the first five seasons of the 1970’s was a Third and Fourth Place Play Off between the two losing semi-finallists […]