[Lord Snooty]

February 8th:

First of all, one for our guest reader and contributor to this thread, Hereford Bull. On this day in 1975, we played Hereford United at Leeds Road and won 2-1. Goals that day coming from Martin Fowler and Jimmy Lawson. No idea who scored for them. Was it Ronnie Radford?

This was a Division Three game and Hereford had been the darlings of the media since they beat Newcastle in the Cup as a non league team a few years earlier in 1972. They had been elected into the League later that year and won promotion to the 3rd straight away. This season, 74/75, despite us winning, they finished 12th and we got relegated. The following season, Hereford only went and won the 3rd Division title.

Spot the celebrity goalkeeper!

Four years before, in 1971, we had the 3rd part of our FA Cup 4th round match with Stoke City. It was a 2nd replay and back then these type of games were played on a neutral ground. This one went to Old Trafford, sort of equidistant between the two clubs and a crowd of 39,302 turned up to see Jimmy Greenhoff knock us out.

Here's the programme. Note the price in the top right corner. One shilling/5 new pence. This game was played one week before the UK introduced decimal currency.

It'll never catch on.

Born on this day, in 1911, was Jimmy Richardson. He played for Town between 1934 and 37. He scored two of the goals in November 1934 when we beat Liverpool 8-0 at Leeds Road. That was Liverpool's record defeat for a game in the top flight of English football. They lost a 2nd division game 9-1 against Birmingham in the 50s.

We had signed him from Newcastle and he went on to score 32 goals for us in 125 games, before heading back north to Sid James' Park.

In his first stint up there, he won an FA Cup winners medal in the 1932 Final against Arsenal, managed of course by Herbert Chapman. But it was a controversial win.

Quoting from Wikipedia.....

The 1932 FA Cup Final was contested by Newcastle United and Arsenal at Wembley Stadium in what became known as the "Over The Line" final. Newcastle won 2–1, both of their goals scored by Jack Allen.

Arsenal had led 1–0 with a Bob John goal, but Newcastle's equaliser came after a long ball that had appeared to foul over the goal line, and was put back into action for a goal kick. Newcastle winger Jimmy Richardson crossed the ball back into the field and Jack Allen levelled the match for the Magpies. The referee ruled that the ball had not gone out of play, but photographic evidence later showed that the ball had crossed the line; the goal stood. Allen scored again in the second half to win the match 2–1.