ON THIS DAY

At 40 years of age former England goalkeeper David Seaman announced his retirement from football because of a recurring shoulder injury. Kevin Keegan had signed him for Manchester City in 2003 and Seaman had enjoyed a League career of over 20 years with Peterborough, Birmingham, QPR, Arsenal as well as Manchester City and had played 75 times for England.

& 2018 A 34-year-old David Moyes took charge of his first match as a manager, stepping up from Preston's assistant manager when previous boss Gary Peters resigned. His first match as the boss was in front of 1618 fans at Macclesfield Town's Moss Road ground where Preston won 1-0 in an Auto Windscreens Shield second round tie. Twenty years later to the day - January 13th 2018 - David Moyes was the manager of the West Ham United side who won 4-1 at Huddersfield Town and so became just the fourth person to record 200 wins as a Premier League manager. The other three at the time were Alex Ferguson, Arsène Wenger and Harry Redknapp.

When Worksop Town played at First Division Tottenham Hotspur on this day in 1923 their last visit to London for an FA Cup First Round tie was doubtless on their mind because almost exactly 15 years earlier (11th January 1908) they had played Chelsea at Stamford Bridge…and lost 9-0. This time though things were different. The Midland League champions put on a great display against Spurs at White Hart Lane with many home fans in the 23,928 crowd cheering on the non-leaguers with Worksop recording a memorable 0-0 draw. Worksop didn’t consider their Central Avenue ground as being suitable for the replay and Spurs immediately accepted a request to stage the replay at White Hart Lane. Worksop stayed over in London and the clubs re-assembled in north London two days later on the Monday afternoon. This time the 23,122 crowd saw a very different match. Spurs were 6-0 up at half time and finished 9-0 winners. Such is life!