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dangerman
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 5:50 pm
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does anyone know why Chelsea played 2 matches in two days on the 04/04/69 & 05/04/69 both home games |
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stingray
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:10 pm
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At the risk of a whoosh, it was because the Football League decreed that they should - as I suspect was the case for all clubs that season. |
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Pete’s Picture Palace Forum Moderator
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 6:48 pm
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On the same days in Division 2, Palace were at home to Middlesbrough & Portsmouth.
That made me wonder about Middlesbrough - they were away to Palace and then Charlton. That at least makes sense.
I wonder if there were any ludicrous journeys for any clubs on those days. |
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foxes1
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Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 7:03 pm
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Clubs in the 1960's used to play quite often on consecutive days especially Christmas / Easter. The dates you quoted are Good Friday and Easter Saturday for that year. |
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Fishy
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:22 am
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Millwall were at home to Villa on 4/4/69 and then had to travel up to Hull for a game on the 5th!
We lost both games.................. |
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wandererpaul
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:42 am
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foxes1 wrote: |
Clubs in the 1960's used to play quite often on consecutive days especially Christmas / Easter. The dates you quoted are Good Friday and Easter Saturday for that year. |
Christmas and Easter always had two or three games over a short period of time - 2-4 days. From the 1920's to 1960's at least - although Brentford FCs last game on Christmas Day was 1958 I think, without looking.
I'm surprised the original poster didn't check this out first! _________________ Not Forgotten; Allwright, Greechan, Hagan, Kennedy, Littler, Purver, Robotham, Saunders, Shields |
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rogerclunn
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 12:02 pm
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foxes1 wrote: |
Clubs in the 1960's used to play quite often on consecutive days especially Christmas / Easter. The dates you quoted are Good Friday and Easter Saturday for that year. |
Probably played on the Monday or Tuesday as well. 3 games in 4/5 days was not uncommon. _________________ Regards
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cardiff55
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 1:06 pm
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In those days clubs used to play 3 games over Easter, Good Friday, Saturday and Easter Monday usually.
Back before that, as late as the 1950s clubs used to play on Christmas Day with a return fixture on Boxing Day. Some strange results used to occur depending I suppose on how much turkey or alcohol the players used to have! |
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Karb
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:39 pm
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Pete’s Picture Palace wrote: |
On the same days in Division 2, Palace were at home to Middlesbrough & Portsmouth.
That made me wonder about Middlesbrough - they were away to Palace and then Charlton. That at least makes sense.
I wonder if there were any ludicrous journeys for any clubs on those days. |
Sunderland were away at Ipswich on 4th, then home to Arsenal the following day. |
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Wullie
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Posted: Sat Jul 11, 2015 5:56 am
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No squad rotation either. Probably the same 12 everytime unless there were injuries . |
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