Match Summary

England Team

Belgium Team

The International match between England and Belgium was played on The Arsenal club's ground at Highbury yesterday, and ended in a decisive victory for England by six goals to one...

England attacked from the start, and Lieutenant K. E. Hegan missed an excellent chance in the first minute from a pass by Mercer. Soon afterwards, however, the outside left atoned for his mistake by scoring a good goal ; he beat the Belgian goalkeeper with a clever cross shot which was made possible by some good work by Seed...

The English backs were not very sure in their kicking, and two more corners were forced by the Belgians. From the second the ball was so well placed by D. Bastin that H. Vlamincks was able to obtain the equalizing goal...

The Belgian goalkeeper, however, was beaten soon afterwards by Hegan, who sent in a hard drive at the end of a clever run...

In the second half England attacked strongly and, after a good save by Debie, Chambers scored England's third goal with a clever shot. England continued to have the better of the game and further goals were scored by Mercer, Seed and Bullock. - The Times - Tuesday 20th March, 1923

Fourth Round Second Replay played on 19 March 1923:

SOUTHAMPTON 0-1 WEST HAM UNITED
(Brown 75)
22,184 (Villa Park, Birmingham)

West Ham fought their way through to their first ever semi-final, five days later, where they would beat another second division club, Derby County, to take their place in the first final at the new Wembley Stadium.

Football League Division Two 19 March 1923
Team	P	Pts
Leicester City	33	42
Blackpool	34	40
Notts County	32	40
Bury	31	39
West Ham United	31	37
Manchester United	33	37
Fulham	33	36
Barnsley	33	36
The Wednesday	33	36
Leeds United	33	36
Derby County	32	35
Southampton	32	32
Hull City	33	31
Crystal Palace	33	31
Port Vale	34	30
Bradford City	33	30
South Shields	32	29
Stockport County	34	28
Coventry City	32	27
Rotherham County	33	26
Clapton Orient	33	25
Wolverhampton Wanderers	33	17

 

Division Two match played on 19 March 1923:

THE WEDNESDAY 3-1 LEEDS UNITED
Binks, Brelsford, Smailes (Powell)
11,000 (Hillsborough, Sheffield)

A third successive victory lifted The Wednesday above Leeds (for whom it was a third successive defeat), on goal average, but Leeds would finish ahead of them by a point, with neither team seriously troubling the promotion contenders.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 19 March 1923 that the Earl of Carnarvon, who had funded the excavation of the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh, Tutankhamun and was present when Howard Carter first opened the tomb, suffered a mosquito bite which caused various complications and led to his death from pneumonia less than three weeks later. This led to speculation that he was a victim of the 'Mummy's Curse'.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Belgianfootball.be
Rothmans Yearbooks
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