The Club Football History Thread

[Cornish Piskie]

Exactly the same as the International History Football Thread, but about club football, at all levels and from all countries, instead of internationals.

Come on fellas. There have to be some old yarns out there that you know.

Request to Admins to make this a sticky too.

 

[epic73]

Manchester United
a lot

Cork City
1984: Founded
2016: Sean Maguire joins
2017: Sean Maguire leaves
2017: Wins league
2017: Wins cup

 

[Camborne Gills]

Gills

Formed in 1893 as New Brompton

Won Division 4 twice
2 for 3 in Wembley PO finals
Championship for 5 years
Paid Crockenhill a set of tracksuits for that well known 'Irish' international Tony Cascarino
Currently on a 3 game winning streak away from home

 

[Cornish Piskie]

Charlton Athletic

First English club to be promoted from the third division to the first in successive seasons (and then finished runners up in their first season in the first division)
At one time, The Valley had more terracing than Wembley
Had the first player ever to reach 500 appearances for one club (Sam Bartram)
The only club to lose a third round FA Cup match and go on to reach the final (1946)
The only English league club to concede 6 goals in a home match and win (to the best of my knowledge. Please advise if anybody knows of others) (7-6 vs Huddersfield 1957)
First English club to use a substitute in a league match (Keith Peacock)
First English league club to have a ground share arrangement with another club
Had the last player to score a hat trick in a recognised major match at the 'old' Wembley. (Clive Mendonca)

 

[epic73]

The only club to lose a third round FA Cup match and go on to reach the final

The only English league club to concede 6 goals in a home match and win

Which matches were these?

 

[Cornish Piskie]

Which matches were these?

Charlton 7 Huddersfield T 6. December 1957.

Charlton were losing 1-5 with less than 20 minutes to play when Johnny Summers went on a one man goalscoring spree, scoring 5 goals in about 15 minutes to make it 6-5. Huddersfield equalised with just a couple of minutes to go, but straight from the restart, Charlton went downfield and 'Buck' Ryan hit the winner. All this was achieved after Charlton were reduced to only ten players early in the game through injury (no subs in those days..!!).

Notably, Huddersfield's novice manager had taken the decision not to field a young striker who he thought wasn't yet ready for league football. If Bill Shankly had picked Denis Law for that match, who knows what the score might have been..!!

It was with this match in mind that Shanks used to drum into his Liverpool teams that no match is ever lost, no matter how far behind they may be, until the final whistle.


The FA Cup tie in question was the third round tie vs Fulham in 1946. This was the only time the FA experimented with two-leg ties. Charlton beat Fulham 3-1 at the Valley and although they lost 1-2 at Craven Cottage, progressed 4-3 on aggregate. Note that I said Charlton lost an FA Cup match, not an FA Cup tie. Sneaky of me, eh..?

Charlton made the final that season but lost 1-4 to Derby County. And Bert Turner became the first ever player to be credited as scoring for both teams in an FA Cup Final, scoring Charlton's only goal and being officially credited with an own goal.

We returned to Wembley the following season and won the cup, beating Burnley 1-0.

 

[epic73]

Charlton were losing 1-5 with less than 20 minutes to play when Johnny Summers went on a one man goalscoring spree, scoring 5 goals in about 15 minutes to make it 6-5.

According to Wiki the score went something like this:

Spoiler

0-1
0-2
1-2
1-3
1-4
1-5
2-5
3-5
4-5
5-5
6-5
6-6
7-6

However, Summers' goals were scored in a 34-minute spell, not 20.