ON THIS DAY

Oldham Athletic beat Chester 11-2 at Boundary Park in a Football League Division 3 (North) match, Eric Gemmell scoring seven of them which remains a club scoring record. Amazingly though Oldham weren't good enough to win promotion that season and Chester weren't bad enough to have to seek re-election. Just two run-of-the-mill teams sharing 13 goals - those were the days!

In their second Football League season Mansfield Town suffered what is still their record League defeat on Thursday 19th January 1933 when losing 8-1 at Walsall in a Third Division (North) encounter. Amazingly just a few matches earlier - on Tuesday 27th December 1932 - they beat Rotherham 9-2 at Field Mill to record what is still their record League victory. A month between a club recording their long-standing record League win and record League defeat is very much unique! I have to say though Mansfield had some amazing results in 1932/33 with the sequence of League results around those two matches being very strange - 3-6, 0-3, 9-2, 2-5, 0-6, 2-1, 1-8, 1-3, 2-0, 0-7, 2-5. You were never going to get bored watching them were you!