ON THIS DAY

The financial problems that afflicted Maccesfield Town in 2019/20 saw club staff - players and non-playing staff - regularly paid late. That resulted in their first-team players going on strike for their home FA Cup First Round tie against Kingstonian on Sunday November 10th 2019. The Silkmen fielded a team of youth players and loanees against the non-leaguers - and lost 4-0 in front of a crowd of just 996 with over a quarter of them being from Kingstonian. Worse was to follow with two League matches postponed because of striking staff and with Macclesfield being docked a total of 17 points for their financial problems they lost their place in the Football League at the end of the season. Worse was to follow with the Silkmen going bust before the start of the 2020/21 season. . 11 th November

It wasn't as famous as the hat-trick scored at Wembley 12 years later but the 3 goals Chelsea's Roy Bentley scored against Wales in the British Home Championship was the first hat-trick by an England player at Wembley (it opened in 1923!). England won 3-2, John Charles scoring the two goals for Wales.

Arthur Bridgett first made his name in the history books with his career at Sunderland in the early 1900s. The left-winger made 320 First Division appearances for Sunderland between 1903 and 1912, scoring 108 goals. He also scored three times in 11 appearances for England. He then dropped to non-league football, as a player and manager, before returning to League football with Port Vale in 1923. At the age of 41 and after 11 years away from League football – which included the years of the First World War – he made the perfect debut for Port Vale. That was on November 10th 1923 at Port Vale’s former Old Recreation Ground home in a Second Division match against Clapton Orient (now Leyton Orient). In the second minute he scored the only goal of the match! His Port Vale career consisted of 15 league and cup matches in which he scored 7 goals. Arthur Bridgett was one of the few players who refused to play in matches on Christmas Day or Good Friday on religious grounds.