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1905-06

Football League 1906-07

1907-08
  
Final League Table - Division I
Teams in a silver box denotes a player representing England in 1906-07

Teams in italics were relegated to the second division for the following season
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Newcastle United 38 18 1 0 51 12 4 6 9 23 34 51
Bristol City 38 12 3 4 37 18 8 5 6 29 29 48
Everton 38 16 2 1 50 10 4 3 12 20 36 45
Sheffield United 38 13 4 2 36 17 4 7 8 21 38 45
Aston Villa 38 13 4 2 51 19 6 2 11 27 33 44
Bolton Wanderers 38 10 4 5 35 18 8 4 7 24 29 44
Woolwich Arsenal 38 15 1 3 38 15 5 3 11 28 44 44
Manchester United 38 10 6 3 33 15 7 2 10 20 41 42
Birmingham 38 13 5 1 41 17 2 3 14 11 35 38
Sunderland 38 10 4 5 42 31 4 5 10 23 35 37
Middlesbrough 38 11 2 6 33 21 4 4 11 23 42 36
Blackburn Rovers 38 10 3 6 40 25 4 4 11 16 34 35
The Wednesday 38 8 5 6 33 26 4 6 9 16 34 35
Preston North End 38 13 4 2 35 19 1 3 15 9 38 35
Liverpool 38 9 2 8 45 32 4 5 10 19 33 33
Bury 38 9 4 6 30 23 4 2 13 28 45 32
Manchester City 38 7 7 5 29 25 3 5 11 24 52 32
Notts County 38 6 9 4 31 18 2 6 11 15 32 31
Derby County 38 8 6 5 29 19 1 3 15 12 40 27
Stoke 38 7 6 6 27 22 1 4 14 14 42 26

Everton recorded a six-match winning run from 29 September 1906:
Liverpool (a) 2-1, Bristol C. (h) 2-0, Notts C. (a) 1-0, Sheffield U. (h) 4-2, Bolton (a) 3-1, Manchester U. (h) 3-0, before losing 2-0 at Stoke on 10 November 1906.
Newcastle's biggest winning sequence was of three matches.

Chelsea and West Bromwich Albion, from the second division, each also had a player representing England.


 
How The League Was Won 1906-07 Season
Timeline
35 Saturdays from 1 September 1906 to 27 April 1907, plus Christmas Day (Tuesday, 25th December 1906), Boxing Day (Wednesday, 26th December 1906), New Year's Day (Tuesday, 1 January 1907), Good Friday, 29 March 1907 and Easter Monday, 1 April 1907
There were nine additional games played on the first three Mondays and one on a Monday in November, with four played on Christmas Eve (Monday, 24 December 1906), one played on New Year's Eve (Monday, 31 December 1906) and two on the first Wednesday in January. In February, there was one game on a Wednesday, there were four on Mondays and three on Wednesdays in March, and games played throughout midweek (except Fridays) in April. The FA Cup took precedence on six weekends from the first round on 12 January 1907 to the final on 20 April 1907. There were three weeks between the first three rounds, two before the fourth round and semi-finals, and four before the final. Last league games were on Saturday, 27 April 1907.
Wednesday, 10 April 1907
Everton 2 Woolwich Arsenal 1
  
Goodison Park, Liverpool (8,000)
Young (2) ~ Satterthwaite
Following two defeats in three days, at Birmingham and Blackburn, Everton reduced Newcastle's lead to six points, but still needed to win their last three games, with Newcastle losing both of theirs.
Top Two 10 April 1907
Team P
Newcastle United 36 50
Everton 35 44
  
Saturday, 13 April 1907
Newcastle United 0 Sheffield United 0
  
St James' Park, Newcastle (26,000)
With Everton losing 5-2 at Derby, Newcastle would have won the title even if they had lost. The Merseysiders had seemingly given up on their chances and, with an eye on their defence of the trophy in the following week's FA Cup Final, they only fielded four of the players that had beaten Woolwich Arsenal. Newcastle dropped a point at home for the only time that season, but they could still celebrate regaining the championship. Everton lost the final and only picked up one more point, as newly-promoted Bristol City took the runners-up spot and reduced Newcastle's winning margin to three points.

 

 
The Elite League 1906-07 Season (games between the top four)
Team P Home Away
W D L F A W D L F A
Everton 6 3 0 0 9 2 0 0 3 2 7 6
Sheffield United 6 2 1 0 5 2 0 2 1 5 7 6
Newcastle United 6 2 1 0 4 0 0 1 2 1 5 6
Bristol City 6 2 1 0 7 5 0 1 2 1 6 6
For the second year in succession, only Newcastle United retained their top-four placing from the previous season. Liverpool, Preston North End and The Wednesday all dropped out of the top four.
Games played between the top two:-
Saturday, 24 November 1906
 Bristol City 2 Newcastle United 1
  
Ashton Gate, Bristol (20,000)

Wedlock
, Burton ~ Brown
Saturday, 30 March 1907
 Newcastle United 3 Bristol City 0
   St James' Park, Newcastle (35,000)

Howie, Rutherford
(2)

 
The Continuous League 1888-1907 (first 19 seasons)
Team P Wins
Aston Villa 586 303 706
Everton 586 290 677
Sunderland 542 275 653
Blackburn Rovers 586 226 570
Everton reduced Aston Villa's lead to 29 points. This was the second season of 38 games each, following three of 22, one of 26, six of thirty, and seven of 34 games each. Sunderland still had the highest average points per game from their 17 seasons.
The Continuous '38 Games' League
1905-07 (last two seasons)
Team P Wins
Newcastle United 76 40 94
Bolton Wanderers 76 35 85
Aston Villa 76 36 84
Liverpool 76 36 84
Liverpool drop from the top down to fourth.
The 'Rolling Five-Season' League
1902-07
Team P Wins
Newcastle United 178 95 216
Aston Villa 178 91 208
Everton 178 88 204
The Wednesday 178 83 201
The first three seasons were of 34 games each. Newcastle increased their lead to eight points.
 
 
Champions: Newcastle United
Manager: Frank Watt
1906-07 Most Appearances
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Jock Rutherford 34 10
Colin Veitch 29 7
Jack Carr 26  
Bert Gosnell 26 3
Bert Gosnell did not play for England in 1906-07.
1906-07 Most Goals
by England Players
Name Played Goals
Jock Rutherford 34 10
Scottish international, Alex Young of Everton, was top scorer with 28.
Second on the list was Sunderland's Arthur Bridgett, with 25, followed by Sheffield United's Arthur Brown, with 22.

 
England and the Football League 1906-07 Season
England's impact on the Football League
Of the 33 playing positions used during the active 1906-07 season, Football League players provided 31 of them, and of the three goals scored, League players scored all of them.
Twelve of the twenty first division clubs were represented, plus Chelsea and West Bromwich Albion from the second division.
Twenty Football League games had a direct impact on two of England's games, on 16 February and 6 April.
As a result, on 16 February, England took Aston Villa's Joe Bache, Blackburn's Bob Crompton, Bristol City's Billy Wedlock, Chelsea's George Hilsdon, Derby's Ben Warren, Liverpool's Sam Hardy, Manchester City's Irvine Thornley, Newcastle's Jack Carr, Jock Rutherford and Colin Veitch, and Tim Coleman of Woolwich Arsenal. On 6 April, Crompton, Hardy, Rutherford, Veitch, Warren and Wedlock
were again absent from league action, as were Everton's Harold Hardman, Manchester United's Dick Duckworth, Middlesbrough's Steve Bloomer and Alf Common, The Wednesday's James Stewart and Jesse Pennington of West Bromwich Albion.
 
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