ON THIS DAY

At half time at the Leicester v Ipswich First Division match City’s England international Keith Weller had things on his mind. He had suffered an FA fine for bringing the game into disrepute, a transfer request from him had been turned down, Leicester had lost seven matches on the trot (and would lose against Ipswich), the crowd were starting to get on his back and he argued with team-mates in the tunnel at the half-time break. So he decided enough was enough, ran a bath, got in it and refused to go out for the second half! His one-man strike cost him a club fine and he got his wish of going onto the transfer although all was later forgiven and he remained at Filbert Street for another four years.

Brighton's first Second Division game of the 1958/59 season - their first ever season in the second tier - ended in a 9-0 defeat at Middlesbrough. That still ranks as their record defeat in the League. On Saturday December 20th 1958 the return match was played in Brighton and I'm sure few present in the 21,000 crowd were expecting to see as many goals at the Goldstone Ground - but in fact they witnessed 10 goals being scored! Middlesbrough won that one 6-4 with Brian Clough getting a hat-trick to add to the five he scored for Middlesbrough in the first match against Brighton. I bet that wasn't forgotten when in years to come Cloughie became manager at Brighton!