ON THIS DAY

For the first time an England match at Wembley was postponed, the scheduled European Championship qualifier against Bulgaria being called off because of heavy fog. The match was played the following evening although without England captain Kevin Keegan who had to return to his club, Hamburg. England won 2-0 with Glenn Hoddle scoring on his international debut. 22 nd November

He was 37 and playing for a non-league club but you couldn't keep Jimmy Greaves out of the headlines. Playing for Barnet on this day in 1977 against Chelmsford City in an Eastern Floodlit League match he was sent off for using foul and abusive language. He refused to leave the pitch so the referee abandoned the match.

Peter Shilton joined Stoke City for a £325,000 transfer fee, at the time a world record for a goalkeeper. A week later the England international was part of a team - which included Mike Pejic, Jimmy Greenhoff, Alan Hudson, Jimmy Robertson and Geoff Hurst - that beat his former club Leicester City 1-0 to go top of the First Division. They finished the season in fifth place, four points behind League champions Derby County.

It was announced that Peterborough United were to be relegated from the 3rd to the 4th Division at the end of the 1967/68 season after being found guilty of financial irregularities. One of those irregularities was offering Posh players an illegal bonus to beat Sunderland in an FA Cup tie the previous season - Posh had lost 7-1. At the time of the punishment Peterborough were still hopeful of a promotion challenge but the season became almost meaningless - surely the most severe punishment ever handed out by the football authorities?

A 4817 crowd at the Feethams saw an entertaining Third Division North fixture between Darlington and Hartlepools United. The match ended 5-5 with nine players scoring goals - Logan, Brown, Towers and Stranger (2) for Darlington and Scott, Hill, English, Robertson and Wigham for Hartlepools (they had an 's' in their name in those days!).