ON THIS DAY

Peugeot, Coventry's shirt sponsors, got their monies worth when a colour-clash of kit saw Chelsea needing to borrow Coventry's away strip in the Coventry v Chelsea Premier League match at Highfield Road.

When goalkeeper Jesse Whatley played his first match for Bristol Rovers, who were then in the Southern League, he didn’t make the most memorable of debuts – he let in five goals. Rovers then progressed to the Football League and Jesse Whatley progressed to setting an amazing playing record. He played all his League football for Bristol Rovers and from August 1922 he played in 246 consecutive Football League matches for the Pirates. Those 246 matches comprised playing in every League match for 5 full seasons and the first 36 matches of the following season which at the time was a League best and still remains a Rovers record. The last match in that amazing sequence was on 9th April 1928 against Crystal Palace at Eastville and then he asked to be left out of the team for the rest of the season to allow deputy Bert Densley a run in the side. Amazing!