Match Summary

Wales Team

England Team

A TAME MATCH

England beat Wales at Wrexham by four goals to none, but did not show the form generally looked for in an international match.

Play had been in progress 12 minutes when England took the lead. Leach placed a free kick well and Hodgson got in a shot which Len Evans in goal stopped, but he did not get the ball away. Hampson sent in a sharp low shot which passed several defenders and beat the Welsh goalkeeper, for he could scarcely have seen what was coming...

Crooks made many determined runs on the wing and from one of his centres Hodgson scored with a good low shot...

Len Evans kept his goal intact for 25 minutes, but Hampson then found an opening and scored again. Keenor took a penalty kick awarded for hands, but his shot went straight into Hibbs's hands. When Crooks was off the field for a while Bradford scored from a free kick taken by Leach... - The Times - Monday 24th November, 1930

Football League Division One 22 November 1930
Team	P	Pts
Arsenal	16	26
Portsmouth	16	23
Sheffield Wednesday	16	23
Derby County	16	22
Aston Villa	16	20
West Ham United	16	19
Huddersfield Town	16	18
Leicester City	16	18
Sheffield United	16	17
Chelsea	16	17
Liverpool	15	16
Birmingham	16	15
Manchester City	16	15
Middlesbrough	16	14
Blackburn Rovers	16	13
Sunderland	16	13
Newcastle United	16	13
Blackpool	16	13
Grimsby Town	16	11
Bolton Wanderers	15	11
Leeds United	16	10
Manchester United	16	3

 

Division One matches played on 22 November 1930:

ARSENAL 5-3 MIDDLESBROUGH
Lambert 11, 21, 57, Bastin 41, pen. 55 (Bruce 13, Camsell 56, Warren 75)
32,517 (Highbury, London)

Middlesbrough were without Maurice Webster, who was a reserve against Wales at Wrexham.

BIRMINGHAM 4-1 GRIMSBY TOWN
Fillingham, Firth 3 (Coleman)
13,639 (St Andrew's, Birmingham)

 Birmingham were without Bradford, who scored the fourth goal, and Hibbs, who kept a clean sheet and saved a penalty, who were both playing against Wales at Wrexham.

BLACKBURN ROVERS 5-3 HUDDERSFIELD TOWN
L.Bruton 3, 1 pen., J.Bruton, Puddefoot (Robson 3)
10,556 (Ewood Park, Blackburn)

Huddersfield were without Campbell and Goodall (the captain), who were playing against Wales at Wrexham.

BLACKPOOL 2-2 ASTON VILLA
Hutchinson 40, Tremelling 43 (Chester 25, Mandley 84)
12,054 (Bloomfield Road, Blackpool)

Blackpool were without Jimmy Hampson, who scored twice against Wales at Wrexham, whilst Villa were without Eric Houghton who was also playing against Wales.

DERBY COUNTY 1-1 WEST HAM UNITED
Randall 45 (Gibbins 50)
12,092 (Baseball Ground, Derby)

Derby were without Sammy Crooks, who was playing against Wales at Wrexham.

LEEDS UNITED 2-3 CHELSEA
Wainscoat 17, Duggan 80 (Jackson 15, 72, Pearson 75)
13,602 (Elland Road, Leeds)

LEICESTER CITY 2-5 SHEFFIELD WEDNESDAY
Chandler 2 (Ball 3, Burgess 2)
18,794 (Filbert Street, Leicester)

Wednesday were without Blenkinsop, Leach and Strange, who were all playing against Wales at Wrexham.

MANCHESTER CITY 3-0 BOLTON WANDERERS
Halliday 2, Marshall
23,481 (Maine Road, Manchester)

PORTSMOUTH 4-0 LIVERPOOL
Easson 18, 46, 64, Ross 53
19,337 (Fratton Park, Portsmouth)

Portsmouth were without Jack Smith, who was a reserve against Wales at Wrexham, whilst Liverpool were without Gordon Hodgson, who scored the second goal against Wales.

SHEFFIELD UNITED 3-1 MANCHESTER UNITED
Dunne 47, 73, 85 (Gallimore 9)
25,998 (Bramall Lane, Sheffield)

SUNDERLAND 5-0 NEWCASTLE UNITED
Eden 11, 88, Connor 29, 79, Gurney 71
26,305 (Roker Park, Sunderland)

A feast of goals in the top flight, with an average of five per game. Half of the first division clubs scored three or more goals, despite the withdrawals for international duty of an England team that scored four goals, themselves. Seven players scored hat-tricks. FA Cup holders, Arsenal still led the field in their quest to become the first southern club to win the league championship.

Football League Division Two 22 November 1930
Team	P	Pts
Everton	16	27
Burnley	16	22
West Bromwich Albion	16	21
Preston North End	16	21
Tottenham Hotspur	16	20
Wolverhampton Wanderers	16	20
Port Vale	16	20
Bury	16	19
Bradford	16	17
Southampton	16	17
Stoke City	16	17
Oldham Athletic	16	16
Swansea Town	16	15
Bristol City	16	14
Nottingham Forest	16	13
Charlton Athletic	16	12
Barnsley	15	12
Bradford City	16	12
Cardiff City	17	11
Millwall	16	10
Plymouth Argyle	16	9
Reading	16	7

 

Division Two matches played on 22 November 1930:

BARNSLEY 3-2 READING
Kerry, Wallbanks, Henderson (Eaton, Davies)
4,712 (Oakwell, Barnsley)

BRADFORD CITY 2-3 BURNLEY
Hallows, Partridge (McCluggage pen., Page, Beel)
12,886 (Valley Parade, Bradford)

BRISTOL CITY 0-3 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
Hartill 3
8,609 (Ashton Gate, Bristol)

BURY 5-0 MILLWALL
Smith 2, Pipe o.g., Pugh, Amos
5,346 (Gigg Lane, Bury)

CARDIFF CITY 0-3 BRADFORD
(Kilcar, Rhodes, Davis)
5,475 (Ninian Park, Cardiff)

Cardiff were without Evans (in goal), Keenor, the captain, who missed a penalty, and Robbins, who were all playing for Wales against England at Wrexham.

CHARLTON ATHLETIC 3-1 SOUTHAMPTON
Astley, Whitlow 2 (Stage)
7,598 (The Valley, London)

EVERTON 5-0 STOKE CITY
Dean 3, Johnson 2
21,185 (Goodison Park, Liverpool)

PLYMOUTH ARGYLE 1-1 OLDHAM ATHLETIC
Leslie (Fitton)
14,490 (Home Park, Plymouth)

PORT VALE 1-0 PRESTON NORTH END
Jennings
10,086 (Recreation Ground, Stoke)

SWANSEA TOWN 3-2 NOTTINGHAM FOREST
R.Williams 3 (McKinlay, Dent)
8,059 (Vetch Field, Swansea)

WEST BROMWICH ALBION 0-2 TOTTENHAM HOTSPUR
(Harper 2)
17,923 (The Hawthorns, West Bromwich)

The two relegated clubs from the first division led the table, but it was Everton's Bill Dean who would propel the Merseysiders to the title and promotion straight back to the top flight, with 39 goals (plus nine in the FA Cup, as they reached the semi-finals).

Selected Division Three matches played on 22 November 1930:

COVENTRY CITY 6-4 NEWPORT COUNTY
Lake 2, Ball, Phillips 2, Bowden (Gittins, Hickie, Pearce 2)
8,276 (Highfield Road, Coventry)

Newport were without Billy Thomas, who was playing for Wales against England at Wrexham.

HULL CITY 2-3 WREXHAM
Duncan 2 (Hughes, Taylor, Mustard)
8,273 (Anlaby Road, Hull)

Wrexham were without Bamford, Crompton, Rogers and Williams, who were all playing for Wales against England at Wrexham.

LINCOLN CITY 1-3 TRANMERE ROVERS
Kitching (J.Kennedy, Meston, Dixon)
9,381 (Sincil Bank, Lincoln)

NOTTS COUNTY 2-2 NORTHAMPTON TOWN
Andrews, Keetley (Dawes 2)
21,329 (Meadow Lane, Nottingham)

Lincoln still led the northern section, on goal average from Tranmere, despite losing at home to them. Wrexham leapfrogged Hull into third place, to close the gap on the leaders to two points. The top two also met in the southern section, where the fifth-highest crowd of the day (bigger than for the international) saw unbeaten Notts County maintain their six-point lead over Northampton after going down to ten men and then losing their two-goal lead.

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 21 November 1930 that a hat found at a beach in Cornwall was identified as probably belonging to a woman who had vanished a few days after the death of Alice Thomas, her friend and neighbour. A week later, the inquest into her death determined that she had been poisoned with arsenic. The missing woman, Annie Everard, who had falsely claimed that she was a widow called Mrs. Hearn, had sent an apparent suicide note to her friend's husband and secretly moved to Torquay under another name. She was eventually found, two months later, and charged with murder. Despite the fact that the bodies of her aunt and sister were also found to contain arsenic following their exhumation, she was found not guilty and no one was ever convicted of the murder.

Source Notes

Welsh Football Data Archive
Original newspaper reports
Rothmans Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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