December 28 – Dodgy At The Back
HOW have those Christmas hangovers been? For us here at OTFD the last thing we want to do today is pull on the boots and run around in the rain. And perhaps that was what was going through the minds of First Division defenders today in 1963, as they conceived to let in a whopping 66 goals over the ten matches played.
As we’re only young pups here at OTFD we can only speculate to what the 1963 version of Jeff Stelling’s Soccer Saturday made of it, but we imagine that a Chris Kamara-ite would’ve been telling us it was ‘unbelievable Jeff!!’ as he leapt around the gantry at Craven Cottage when Fulham, the day’s highest scorers, bagged their tenth goal against an Ipswich side that had won the title only 18 months earlier. Props too to Blackburn who hit eight away from home at the Boleyn Ground in an 8-2 win against West Ham.
All those depressed Hammers and Tractor Boys didn’t have too long to wait to get their own back though, as the fixtures were reversed two days later and the tables were turned as Ipswich won 4-2 and West Ham’s revenge was served in a 3-1 shaped dish.
Have a gander at the comedy set of results in full below and come back tomorrow for more tales of footballing history.
Blackpool 1 Chelsea 5
Burnley 6 Man Utd 1
Fulham 10 Ipswich 1
Leicester 2 Everton 0
Liverpool 6 Stoke 1
Nottingham Forest 3 Sheff Utd 3
WBA 4 Spurs 4
Sheff Wed 3 Bolton 0
Wolves 3 Aston Villa 3
West Ham 2 Blackburn 8
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