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Newcastle United F.C. 0–1 Crystal Palace F.C. (1907)
Newcastle United v Crystal Palace was a football match played on 12 January 1907 at St James' Park, Newcastle upon Tyne, Newcastle. The match was an 1906–07 FA Cup, FA Cup First Round match. The result, a 1–0 victory for Crystal Palace F.C., Crystal Palace, is notable for being one of the greatest shocks of all time in the history of the FA Cup. The home team, Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United, played in the Football League First Division, the highest level of English football at that time. They had been in the FA Cup final for the previous two seasons and had won the First Division title as recently as 1904–05. They had also maintained an unbeaten at home record which had started on 25 November 1905.Matthews, Tony (editor). ''We All Follow The Palace''. Juma (publisher), Juma, 1998. pp.15-16. Crystal Palace were a non-league side formed the previous year who were playing in the Southern League (football), Southern League. The build-up As a Southern Football Lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906–07 FA Cup
The 1906–07 FA Cup was the 36th season of the world's oldest association football competition, the Football Association Challenge Cup (more usually known as the FA Cup). The Wednesday won the competition for the second time, beating holders Everton 2–1 in the final at Crystal Palace. Matches were scheduled to be played at the stadium of the team named first on the date specified for each round, which was always a Saturday. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played, a replay would take place at the stadium of the second-named team later the same week. If the replayed match was drawn further replays would be held at neutral venues until a winner was determined. If scores were level after 90 minutes had been played in a replay, a 30-minute period of extra time would be played. Calendar The format of the FA Cup for the season had a preliminary round, five qualifying rounds, and six proper rounds, including the semi-finals and final. Qualifying rounds Concern abou ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archie Needham
Archibald Needham (2 August 1881 – 1950) was an English footballer, who played for Crystal Palace in a variety of positions. Career Born in Sheffield, Needham played professionally for Sheffield United but unlike his namesake (relative?) Ernest Needham he was not a regular first team player. In 1905 he joined new club Crystal Palace, and was the club's top scorer in their first season, playing in the Southern League Division Two. Needham was a versatile player, and played in almost every position save for goalkeeper whilst at Palace. On 21 January 1909, he scored a memorable goal against Football League side Wolves in an FA Cup first round replay. In the dying minutes of extra time, Fred Fountain wrote of the goal in the ''Croydon Advertiser'' in 1946: "...he simply weaved his way through all the players and dribbled it right up to the Wolves' goal, putting in an unstoppable shot." Writing in ''The Penny Illustrated Paper The ''Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy McCracken
William Robert McCracken (29 January 1883 – 20 January 1979) was an Irish footballer who played as a defender. He is famous for inventing the offside trap. He was a cousin of Robert McCracken who also had a career as a professional footballer. Playing career During his career, McCracken captained both English club Newcastle United and the Ireland national side. He played for Newcastle from 1904 to 1924, helping them win three Football League titles and one FA Cup. In total he played 432 games for the ''Magpies'', scoring eight goals. McCracken gained sixteen international caps (including one match against Scotland in 1902 which is not counted as official by the Scots due to its unusual circumstances as a fundraiser following the Ibrox disaster, but excluding two ' Victory matches' in 1919 against the same opposition), scoring one goal. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nottingham
Nottingham ( , East Midlands English, locally ) is a City status in the United Kingdom, city and Unitary authorities of England, unitary authority area in Nottinghamshire, East Midlands, England. It is located south-east of Sheffield and north-east of Birmingham. Nottingham is the legendary home of Robin Hood and to the lace-making, bicycle and Smoking in the United Kingdom, tobacco industries. The city is also the county town of Nottinghamshire and the settlement was granted its city charter in 1897, as part of Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrations. In the 2021 United Kingdom census, 2021 Census, Nottingham had a reported population of 323,632. The wider conurbation, which includes many of the city's suburbs, has a population of 768,638. It is the largest urban area in the East Midlands and the second-largest in the Midlands. Its Functional Urban Area, the largest in the East Midlands, has a population of 919,484. The population of the Nottingham/Derby metropolitan a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Temperance Movement
The temperance movement is a social movement promoting Temperance (virtue), temperance or total abstinence from consumption of alcoholic beverages. Participants in the movement typically criticize alcohol intoxication or promote teetotalism, and its leaders emphasize alcohol (drug), alcohol's negative effects on people's Health effects of alcohol, health, personalities, and family lives. Typically the movement promotes alcohol education and it also demands the passage of new Alcohol law, laws against the sale of alcohol: either regulations on the availability of alcohol, or the prohibition of it. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, the temperance movement became prominent in many countries, particularly in English-speaking, Scandinavian, and majority Protestant ones, and it eventually led to national prohibitions Prohibition in Canada, in Canada (1918 to 1920), Norway (spirits only from 1919 Norwegian prohibition referendum, 1919 to 1926 Norwegian continued prohibition ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Penny Illustrated Paper
The ''Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times'' was a cheap ( 1d.) illustrated London weekly newspaper that ran from 1861 to 1913. Premises Illustrated weekly newspapers had been pioneered by the ''Illustrated London News'' (published from 1842, costing fivepence): its imitators included the '' Pictorial Times'' (1843–48), and – after the 1855 repeal of the Stamp Act – the ''Illustrated Times''. With the abolition of paper duty in 1861 it was possible to envisage an even cheaper mass-circulation illustrated weekly. History The first issue, 12 October 1861, announced itself confidently under the masthead "PENNY ILLUSTRATED PAPER: With All the News of the Week": "A new era opens upon the people. In producing a paper for the million, let us plainly say, we want be esteemed the friend of the people ... A new era is opened to us by the Repeal of the Paper Dutie The paper was apparently initially the charge of Ebenezer Farringtonbr>but the wife and sons of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Finlay Speedie
Finlay Ballantyne Speedie (18 August 1880 – 5 February 1953) was a Scottish footballer who played for Rangers, Newcastle United and Scotland in the 1900s. He was a versatile forward who was most at home at inside left. Career Speedie began his career with junior clubs Clydebank and Strathclyde (playing for both in different competitions) then joined Rangers in 1900. Playing under William Wilton he won two League championships, a Scottish Cup, two Glasgow Cups, a Charity Cup and the 1901 Glasgow Exhibition Cup. He left Rangers in 1906 after a match against Celtic was played for his benefit and joined Newcastle United, where he won the English First Division in 1906–07 in his first season. He stayed on Tyneside for another season before joining Oldham for a season and then moved to Bradford Park Avenue for a few months before eventually re-joining old club Dumbarton; he won the old Scottish Division Two title in 1911. Speedie won three Scotland caps, scoring two goals — ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Lawrence
James Lawrence (16 February 1879 – 21 November 1934) was a Scottish football player and manager. A goalkeeper, he played for Newcastle United between 1904 and 1922. Career Playing career Born in Partick, Lawrence's first club was Partick Athletic, from where he moved to Glasgow Perthshire. Although still connected to Glasgow Perthshire, he played three matches in 1904 for Edinburgh side Hibernian when their regular custodian Harry Rennie was unavailable. He played with Newcastle for eighteen years after joining the Tyneside club in 1904 and still holds the record for making the most appearances for them - 432 league appearances, 496 matches in total. With Newcastle he won the English Championship in 1905, 1907 and 1909, and the FA Cup in 1910, also playing on the losing side in the finals of 1905, 1906, 1908 and 1911. In 1911, he also represented the Scotland national team on one occasion, a 1–1 draw with England at Goodison Park in Liverpool in the British Home Cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Millwall F
Millwall is a district on the western and southern side of the Isle of Dogs, in east London, England, in the London Borough of Tower Hamlets. It lies to the immediate south of Canary Wharf and Poplar, north of Greenwich and Deptford, east of Rotherhithe, west of Cubitt Town, and has a long shoreline along London's Tideway, part of the River Thames. It was part of the County of Middlesex and from 1889, following the passing of the Local Government Act 1888, the County of London; it later became part of Greater London in 1965. Millwall had a population of 23,084 in 2011 and includes Island Gardens, The Quarterdeck and The Space. History Millwall is a smaller area of land than an average parish, as it was part of Poplar until the 19th century when it became heavily industrialised, containing the workplaces and homes of a few thousand dockside and shipbuilding workers. Among its factories were the shipbuilding ironworks of William Fairbairn, much of which survives as to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Woodger
George Woodger (3 September 1883 – 6 March 1961) was an English international footballer, who played as an outside left. Career Born in Croydon, he signed for Crystal Palace in 1905 from local club Thornton Heath Wednesday, and played a part in their 1–0 away win against Newcastle United in the FA Cup in 1907. In some reports, Woodger was said to have provided the pass that led to the goal that was scored by Horace Astley.* Woodger moved to Oldham Athletic, in September 1910 for a fee of £750 and earned one cap for England England is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is located on the island of Great Britain, of which it covers about 62%, and List of islands of England, more than 100 smaller adjacent islands. It ... in 1911 during his time with the Lancashire club. References External linksWoodger at holmesdale.net 1883 births 1961 deaths English men's footballers England men's international footballers O ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Horace Astley
Horace Astley (born 1882) was an English footballer who played for Crystal Palace as a forward. Career Born in Bolton, Astley played professionally for Middlesbrough, before following manager Jack Robson South to join the newly established club, Crystal Palace. Astley was the top scorer in the club's second season, 1906–07, the club's first playing in the Southern League Division One. Astley famously scored the only goal in Palace's shock defeat of Newcastle in the first round of the 1906–07 FA Cup."THE WORLD OF PASTIME" ''The Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times The ''Penny Illustrated Paper and Illustrated Times'' was a cheap ( 1d.) illustrated London weekly newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is oft ...'' (London, England), Saturday, 19 January 1948466585757; Issue 22. References 1882 births English men's footballers Middlesbrough F.C. players Crys ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Howie (footballer)
James Howie (19 March 1878 – January 1963) was a Scottish footballer who later became a manager. Born in Galston, Ayrshire, he joined Kilmarnock from local junior side Galston Athletic in 1898. He was in the side which won the 1898–99 Scottish Division Two title and the following season earned selection to the Scottish League representative side. He joined Kettering Town in 1901 then moved to Bristol Rovers the next season. Howie was signed by Newcastle United in May 1903 and between then and 1910 made 237 appearances for the club, scoring 83 goals. Toon1892 He won the three times ( |
