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[Football] Pick who gets relegated from these scores
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And there was a fair amount of match fixing too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_British_betting_scandal
darkwolf666
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I would suggest Ipswich, any team that loses a game by a 9 goal deficit has to be in deep shit ..
Justice
Dangerous Idiot
Bolton & Ipswich at a guess
Official Old Man
Uckfield Seagull
The team that won the title still lost 11 (of 42) games. Third from bottom had 40 points (based on 3 for win).
I got into football not long after the scandal broke and it was still a big talking point, it was probably the major football story until the World Cup. Peter Swan and Bronco Layne both returned to playing football - I definitely remember Swan turning out for Massive at the Goldstone (I think it was a 3-3 draw).
There's probably quite a bit of fixing that's not been uncovered - occasionally players and refs are nabbed for it but I bet there's more that we don't know about.
AmexRuislip
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studio150
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An average of 6 goals a game I wonder how MOTD would have fitted all those in if it had been around in 1963.
Indeed. I think we are pretty much the same age. Swan was the one in the news to my recollection, and it was all about his England career and that.
Some of those scores look decidedly peculiar. Leeds were notorious for offering bungs. It was the main reason why Clough loathed Revie. Yet it must have gone on for way longer than ten years without it ever making headlines. It would probably crush the memories of many of us if we were to learn the true extent of corruption back in the 'good old days'.
I had a look at football attendances a while ago and seem to recall they were at a lowpoint from the early 60s to late 70s (with The Albion bucking the trend with massive crowds even in division 4). Cynical, ignorant, shitty times, where everyone smoked, had one bath a week (whetehr we needed it or not) and were grateful. No wonder football was corrupt.
55 minutes of Liverpool, including full coverage of pre match YNWA and an interview with three hilarious scousers. 5 minutes for the rest.
about a goal every 5 seconds, that would be pretty intense TV.
Liverpool weren't such a big team then - they'd only been promoted a few seasons before. Tottenham, Man U and Everton would have been the top teams.
And I'm not sure that YNWA would have been so big then. It had only been released a couple of months before and while Liverpool fans were singing it, it wasn't as iconic as it would become
Pacemakers had a totally different meaning too
Medwayseagull
JCB
Perhaps they would have cut out all the pundits waffle which we have to put up with.
I just looked this up and I was wrong about this - Liverpool won the title that season. But I was right about them not being an established top flight team, it was their second season back in the 1st Division having been relegated in the 53/54 season.
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MOTD debuted less than 8 months later with Liverpool v Arsenal, only 5 goals:
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Only one match, as it was for several years with goals not replayed, so no problem showing all the goals from whichever match chosen
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Correction, Albion lost 1-2 at home to Exeter and were already out of both cups. Dire times. Average gate fell below 10K.
https://www.11v11.com/teams/brighton-and-hove-albion/tab/matches/season/1964/