Football League Division One
8 April 1899 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Liverpool |
31 |
39 |
Aston Villa |
29 |
37 |
Burnley |
31 |
37 |
Blackburn Rovers |
32 |
35 |
Notts County |
32 |
35 |
Everton |
31 |
34 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
32 |
33 |
Bury |
31 |
32 |
Sunderland |
32 |
32 |
Derby County |
32 |
31 |
Nottingham Forest |
32 |
31 |
Stoke |
31 |
31 |
West Bromwich Albion |
32 |
30 |
Sheffield
United |
32 |
29 |
Newcastle
United |
32 |
28 |
Preston North End |
31 |
27 |
The Wednesday |
32 |
23 |
Bolton Wanderers |
31 |
22 |
Division One
matches played on 8
April 1899:
BURNLEY
1-0 SUNDERLAND
Ferguson
6,000 (Turf Moor, Burnley)
Sunderland were without Ted Doig, who was playing in goal for Scotland
against England at Birmingham.
BURY 2-0 NOTTS COUNTY
Brimblecombe, Wood
3,021 (Gigg Lane, Bury)
Bury
were without Settle, who scored, what turned out to be, the winner for
England against Scotland at Birmingham, and Sagar, who was a reserve for
England.
LIVERPOOL
4-0 DERBY COUNTY
Walker 3, Raisbeck
15,000 (Anfield, Liverpool)
Liverpool were without Howell, who was playing for England against
Scotland at Birmingham, and Morgan, who was playing for Scotland, whilst
Derby were without Steve Bloomer, who was playing for England.
NEWCASTLE UNITED 1-0 BLACKBURN ROVERS
MacFarlane
12,000 (St. James' Park, Newcastle)
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
1-2 BOLTON WANDERERS
Spencer pen. (Morgan 2)
3,000 (City Ground, Nottingham)
Forest were without Frank and Fred Forman, who
were playing for England against Scotland at Birmingham.
PRESTON NORTH END 4-0 WEST BROMWICH ALBION
Pratt 3, Gara
2,976 (Deepdale, Preston)
STOKE 2-1 EVERTON
Tooth, Johnson
(Boyle)
3,000 (Victoria Ground, Stoke)
Although Liverpool hit the front with only three
games left, Aston Villa still had two games in hand. Yet they didn't
return to the top until their penultimate game, and then only on goal
average. The two teams met in their last game, level on points, in the
ultimate Championship decider at Villa Park. Villa won 5-0 and picked up
their fourth title in six years.
Football League Division Two
8 April 1899 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Manchester
City |
32 |
48 |
Glossop |
32 |
43 |
New Brighton Tower |
31 |
41 |
Leicester
Fosse |
31 |
41 |
Small
Heath |
31 |
39 |
Woolwich Arsenal |
32 |
39 |
Burslem Port Vale |
33 |
39 |
Newton Heath |
31 |
39 |
Walsall |
32 |
38 |
Grimsby Town |
30 |
31 |
Barnsley |
32 |
29 |
Lincoln City |
31 |
29 |
Burton Swifts |
32 |
26 |
Gainsborough Trinity |
32 |
23 |
Luton Town |
30 |
21 |
Blackpool |
32 |
18 |
Loughborough |
31 |
16 |
Darwen |
31 |
6 |
Division Two matches played on
8 April 1899:
DARWEN 0-2
BLACKPOOL
(Leadbetter, Morris)
1,500 (Barley Bank, Darwen)
GLOSSOP
0-0 BURSLEM
PORT VALE
3,500 (North Road, Glossop)
LINCOLN
CITY 1-6 GRIMSBY TOWN
Swan (Ratcliffe
2, Cockshutt, Richards, Mountain, Greenwood)
5,000 (Sincil
Bank, Lincoln)
LUTON TOWN 0-1 NEWTON HEATH
(Lee)
2,000 (Dunstable Road, Luton)
MANCHESTER CITY 2-0 SMALL HEATH
F.Williams 2,1 pen.
20,000 (Hyde Road, Manchester)
WOOLWICH ARSENAL 4-0
NEW BRIGHTON TOWER
Cottrell 2, Haywood, Hunt
3,000 (Manor Ground, London)
Manchester City became the first
ever Football League club to win automatic promotion by virtue of their
league position, when a large crowd saw them clinch the Second Division
Championship as well. The test matches had been abolished after the
manipulative collusion between Stoke and Burnley in the previous season.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 7 April
1899 that an eleven-year-old boy, Edward Bates, was killed in a horrific
accident whilst taking part in a stage play at Oadby in Leicestershire.
He was shot in the face and his jaw was shattered when an old
muzzleloader gun unexpectedly produced a violent discharge during a
fight scene. The gun had been tested beforehand and fired twice without
any danger, but it was thought that the testing had dried the pellets
inside and they were to injure another seven people with one boy being blinded.