ON THIS DAY

Hamilton beat Morton 10-2 in the Scottish Championship. It was the first double figure score in the Scottish League since Rangers beat Raith Rovers 10-2 on 16th December 1967. 4 th May

Goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar scored the only goal in his League career – from the penalty spot for Crewe Alexandra against York City in Division 4.

The 1923/24 season was the closest the Welsh have got to winning the League Championship. Saturday May 3rd saw the last matches of the season being played and at the top of the First Division table Cardiff led Huddersfield by a point. But on that last day Huddersfield defeated Nottingham Forest 3-0 and Cardiff drew at Birmingham 0-0 after leading scorer Len Davies missed a penalty. Both clubs had 57 points and under present rules Cardiff would have won the title on goal difference (and then goals scored) but in the days of goal average the title went to Huddersfield by two-hundredths of a goal! Even if their points totals remained the same had Cardiff scored one more goal during the season - or Huddersfield had conceded one more - the title would have been Cardiff's. So that missed penalty cost the Welsh a League title! And hey, things were just as close in Division 2. The second promotion spot from Div 2 to Div 1 was between Bury and Derby. Bury had completed their League programme when Derby played their last match - on Saturday May 3rd - when they needed to defeat Leicester 5-0 at the Baseball Ground to pip Bury to promotion. After 65 mintes Derby were 4-0 up but they couldn't get that fifth and so Bury went up with a better goal average of just 0.143 of a goal!