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July 2:

On this date in 1912, Huddersfield Town goalkeeper, Ron Brebner played in the semi finals of the Olympic Games Football event for Great Britain, in Sweden. The opponents for this one were Finland and a win would guarantee the GB players a medal of some colour or other.

They would win at least a Silver after the 90 minutes were played at the Olympic Stadium in Stockholm, running out 4-0 winners with our Ron keeping a second clean sheet. It was one nil to GB after only a couple of minutes through an own goal and then Harold Walden, the Bradford City centre forward, made it 2-0 in the 7th.

The third came in the 75th, again scored by Walden, with the goals being completed in the 84th from Vivian Woodward of Chelsea making it 4-0 and getting his third mention on here for three days in a row.

Ron's Town team mate, defender William Martin was again an unused sub, if they had subs back then. He was there watching anyway.

So the Gold Medal match will be the 4th of July, with Denmark as the opponents.

Ken Taylor had twelve years at Huddersfield Town. He also had fifteen years as an all rounder for Yorkshire CCC. During his cricket career, he played three Test Matches for England, the last of which started on this date in 1964.

He had played a couple of Tests a few years earlier before being dropped. This one was against Australia at Headingley and it was the only game of the five match series to have a positive result. Unfortunately it was the Aussies who won it to go 1-0 up, which followed by a couple of draws, won them the Ashes.

England batted first, with our Ken coming in at number 6. He only scored 9 before Neil Hawke had him caught behind. He only got to bowl a couple of overs of his right arm mediums at the Aussies as they built up a first innings lead, with Fred Titmus hogging the bowling.

Ken only got 15 in the second innings, breaking a finger doing so, before getting clean bowled by Tom Vievers. And that finger break meant he didn't get selected again and thus ended his England career.

Welcome to Slow Sports News 1925. I'm jolly Jim White, alongside my colleague Kirsty Gallacher. Only kidding! Sports reporting is no place for a woman in 1925. Now we have some big breaking news this hour........

Reports are coming from our reporter Guy Cholmondley-Havord who is stood outside the Leeds Road stadium in Huddersfield and has sent this report via telegram that the manager of the two times Football League champions, Herbert Chapman has tonight left the club to take up the vacant post at the Arsenal.

That message reads, and I quote.......

Chapman quits [STOP] Gone to Arsenal [STOP]

Get me out of here [STOP] It's grim up north [STOP]

Well Kirsty, that position became vacant when Leslie Knighton was dismissed earlier this month, but it's unclear as to why Chapman would leave the league champions to go manage lowly Arsenal.

But now it seems that the Gunners have offered him an annual salary of..... get this Kirsty, two thousand pounds per annum. Well that may have something to do with the decision. That would make him the highest paid football manager of all time.

A statement from the Huddersfield directors has now come through and says that they thank Mr Chapman for his services and as a mark of respect have awarded him the sum of two hundred guineas. The statement goes on to say that they expect to appoint a new manager tomorrow.

So watch this space for that one.

Whoever gets the job will have a big job on trying to match Chapman. He of course, has won the League championship for Huddersfield for the last two seasons, as well as winning the FA Cup in 1922. And this really does come out of the blue as Chapman had already begun making additions to his squad by bringing highly rated Scottish winger Alex Jackson, down from Aberdeen.

Coming up in the next hour, we discuss the new British Broadcasting Corporation. Will it ever get going and how much will the licence fee be? Will Yorkshire win the County Championship again for a sixth time in a row? And when will we get another British winner at Wimbledon? It's now sixteen years since we had a British winner of the Gentlemen's Singles.

That's all coming up on Slow Sports News1925, at a Fleapit Cinema near you........