Football League Division One
4 April 1896 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Aston Villa |
29 |
43 |
Derby County |
28 |
38 |
Everton |
27 |
36 |
Sunderland |
29 |
35 |
Bolton Wanderers |
27 |
34 |
Stoke |
29 |
30 |
Blackburn Rovers |
26 |
28 |
Preston North End |
29 |
28 |
The Wednesday |
27 |
27 |
Bury |
27 |
25 |
Burnley |
29 |
25 |
Sheffield
United |
28 |
24 |
Nottingham Forest |
29 |
23 |
Wolverhampton Wanderers |
27 |
17 |
Small
Heath |
27 |
17 |
West Bromwich Albion |
28 |
16 |
Division One
matches played on 4 April 1896:
BOLTON WANDERERS 2-1 WEST BROMWICH ALBION
Cassidy, Jack (Banks)
7,000 (Burnden Park, Bolton)
West
Brom were without Billy Bassett, who scored for England in Glasgow.
BURNLEY
2-2 DERBY COUNTY
Nicol, Place jnr. (Paul, nk)
6,000 (Turf Moor, Burnley)
Derby
were without John Goodall, who was playing for England in Glasgow.
NOTTINGHAM FOREST 3-2 WOLVERHAMPTON WANDERERS
McInnes, Carnelly, Smellie (Scott o.g., Fleming)
4,000 (Town Ground, Nottingham)
Wolves were without Harry Wood, who was playing for England in Glasgow.
PRESTON
NORTH END 1-1 BURY
Smith (Barr)
7,000 (Deepdale, Preston)
STOKE
3-0 BLACKBURN ROVERS
Johnson, W.Maxwell 2
6,000 (Victoria Ground, Stoke)
Stoke
were without Tommy Hyslop, who was playing for Scotland against England
in Glasgow, as was Blackburn's Tom Brandon.
THE
WEDNESDAY 3-0 SMALL HEATH
Davis, Bell, Spiksley
6,000 (Olive Grove, Sheffield)
Wednesday were without Tom Crawshaw, who was playing for England in
Glasgow.
Although they recovered from being two goals down,
Derby's draw at Burnley stretched their run without a win to four games
and meant that Aston Villa were League Champions for the second time in
three years.
Football League Division Two
4 April 1896 |
Team |
P
|
Pts |
Liverpool |
30 |
46 |
Manchester
City |
29 |
44 |
Burton
Wanderers |
29 |
42 |
Grimsby Town |
28 |
38 |
Newcastle
United |
27 |
34 |
Newton Heath |
28 |
31 |
Leicester
Fosse |
27 |
30 |
Woolwich
Arsenal |
28 |
30 |
Darwen |
28 |
26 |
Notts County |
28 |
24 |
Burton Swifts |
29 |
24 |
Lincoln City |
28 |
18 |
Rotherham Town |
29 |
17 |
Loughborough |
26 |
16 |
Burslem Port
Vale |
25 |
15 |
Crewe
Alexandra |
29 |
13 |
Division Two matches played on
4 April 1896:
BURTON
WANDERERS 4-1 LINCOLN CITY
Garfield 3, A.J.Capes (Frettingham)
2,000 (Derby
Turn, Burton)
GRIMSBY
TOWN 1-1 WOOLWICH ARSENAL
Higgins (Boyd)
5,000 (Abbey Park, Grimsby)
LEICESTER FOSSE 1-2 MANCHESTER CITY
McArthur (Meredith, Robson)
5,000 (Filbert Street, Leicester)
NEWCASTLE UNITED 5-0 BURTON SWIFTS
Stott, Wardrope 2, Thompson 2
7,000 (St. James' Park, Newcastle)
NEWTON
HEATH 2-0 LOUGHBOROUGH
Smith, Donaldson
6,000 (Bank Street, Manchester)
NOTTS
COUNTY 6-0 CREWE ALEXANDRA
Chadburn, Bull 2, McCallum, Kiddier, Shelton
1,000 (Trent Bridge, Nottingham)
Although Manchester City could still mathematically catch Liverpool,
they would have to beat Notts County by 63 goals in their last match to
clinch the title on goal average. This would mean equalling their goals
tally of the other 29 games in just one match! Of more concern, was
Burton Wanderers pipping them to the second test match place, but Burton
were to lose at home to Notts County, just two days later, and City won
2-0, two days after that, but only Liverpool were to gain promotion.
IN OTHER NEWS...
It was on 4 April 1896
that Whitechapel, scene of the Jack the Ripper murders, eight years
earlier, was once again witness to a horrific double murder. A wealthy
retired 75-year-old, John Levy and his 37-year-old housekeeper, Annie
Gale were both butchered by William Seaman, who had a history of violent
crimes. Seaman claimed that Levy had tried to avoid paying him the £70
that he was owed from a deal relating to stolen goods and ransacked the
house after murdering the couple, but a neighbour arrived and called the
police before Seaman could escape. He climbed up onto the roof and then
jumped about forty feet into a crowd of people that had gathered on the
street. The police arrested him and he was hanged for the crimes, two
months later, after willingly accepting his fate.