ON THIS DAY

Norwich finished the season with a 1-1 First Division draw against Nottingham Forest at Carrow Road. It was their 23rd League draw of the season - a record for a 42-match League season.

A major upset in the FA Cup Final at Wembley when for the first time since 1931 a club from outside of the top flight won the competition. Second Division Sunderland beat the then-mighty Leeds United, the FA Cup holders, 1-0. Memorable moments were the first half goal from Ian Porterfield and a brilliant second half double-save by Sunderland ‘keeper Jim Montgomery to foil goalscoring efforts from Trevor Cherry and Peter Lorimer. Another memorable image was that of the jubilant celebratory jog down the Wembley pitch made by Sunderland manager Bob Stokoe – a former Newcastle United player. That image has now been immortalised in a statue of Bob situated outside of Sunderland’s Stadium of Light ground.

A tragedy at York City's Bootham Crescent in their last Fourth Division match of the season, against Halifax Town. Referee Roy Harper collapsed on the pitch shortly after kick off and died of a heart attack. I think it amazing that the match wasn't called off out of respect but instead one of the other officials took over and the match was played to the finish.

The lowest-ever League crowd at Highbury – just 4,554 – saw Arsenal defeated 3-0 by Leeds.

Probably the most famous footballing injury of them all. At the 1956 FA Cup final between Manchester City and Birmingham City Bert Trautmann, the Manchester City 'keeper, was injured when making a save. He was treated for several minutes on the Wembley pitch but with no substitutes in those days, he played on to help his side record a 3-1 win. Three days later it was found that he had broken his neck when making the save! His surgeon was blunt in his assessment of the injury - ' You should be dead' he told the player. But Trautmann always denied that it was a brave act, ' If I had known I had broken my neck, I would have been off like a shot.'

A Football League first. Alex and David Herd became the first father and son to play together in the Football League – for Stockport County against Hartlepools United in Division 3 (North).

There were certainly a fair few goals about in the Third Division (North} of the Football League in 1933/34. Four teams scored a century of League goals and another four conceded a century with the best single match goalscoring feat being Stockport's 13-0 demolishing of Halifax Town in January 1934. That was a League record which has been equalled but never bettered since. But in their last match of the season - on Saturday May 5th 1934 - Barrow came close to matching that total beating Gateshead 12-1 at Holker Street. Five of those goals were scored by Jimmy Shankly - one of the famous Shankly brothers that included Bill Shankly of Liverpool fame. Those goals saw Barrow finish the season with 116 League goals to their name - another club record. But they also let in 94 League goals - that's 210 goals in League matches involving Barrow that season - an average of exactly 5 a match! And there were some amazing goalscoring sequences - a 7-0 defeat was followed by a 6-3 Barrow win and in another sequence a 5-5 draw was followed by a 6-1 defeat and then a 9-0 victory. Amazing!

Everton’s Dixie Dean scored a hat-trick against Arsenal to bring his League goals total for the season to 60 – still a record. Including FA Cup and representative matches his total for the season was an amazing 82 goals.