October 1970

As appeared in Rothman's Football Yearbook 1971-72 (2nd year)

The Queene Anne Press, London 1971

Note : The news from thirty years ago has an archive below

October 1970

1 Benfica smashed the Yugoslavian side, Olympia Lubliana, 8-1 in the second leg of the Cup Winners Cup, to qualify for the next round 9-2 . . . Real Madrid, having been held to a goal less draw by Hibernian in Malta, smoothed through 5-0 . . . nearer home, in the all-Irish game, Derry City qualified for the next round of the Texaco Cup, by eliminating Limerick 4-3 . .

2 Bristol C. signed 26-year-old Steve Stacey from Ipswich T. at 5,500 pound fee. . . Stacey had been on loan for a month and Ipswich T. held out for7,000 pound fee. . . This was reduced by an F.A. enquiry . . . Scottish Referees Committee ordered fourteen days suspension for Bertie Auld, of Celtic. . . Announced that Littlewoods Results Pool to be replaced by 12 match Points Pool from October 24 . . . In an amateur international match, England beat Iceland 4-1 . . . Alan Birchenall put back into action by injection into knee by specialist. . . Following Saturday scored first goal (after being out for three weeks) in 3-1 win against Southampton . . . Brentford agreed with Brighton that centre forward Alex Dawson should only play in League matches while on loan. . . Scored 6 goals in 12 games, then recalled because Brentford could not afford the fee. . . Announced that the perks pool share out for each England player worked out at 2,300 pounds per man. . . as against the anticipated 25,000 pounds . . . Three victims of cartilage trouble at C. Palace: Billy Laing (his second of season). Bob Goldthorpe and Borge Thorup . . . Derek Clarke, younger brother of Allan (Leeds U.) and Frank (Ipswich T.) signed for Oxford U. from Walsall, for 15,000 pounds, a record for Oxford U. . . . Peter Doherty, former Irish international player and manager of Bristol C., joined Preston N.E. as assistant-manager . . .Italian star forward Luigi Riva broke boy's arm with shot during practice match; a few days later Riva broke a leg playing for Italy.

3 Arsenal, Liverpool and Manchester C. all home, yet not one over-fifty thousand crowd. . . 46,196 saw Liverpool beat Chelsea by Evans's goal. . . London still chasing Leeds U. with four teams in first seven places. . . Bobby Gould hat trick for Wolverhampton W. against Manchester U. . . . Burnley only three points from first eleven games. . .

N.B. This was the day that Ernie Hunt and Willie Carr scored a great and original goal - read more.

4 Tottenham H., favourites to win the first Texaco tournament, drawn at home to Motherwell in second round. . . Other pairings, Wolverhampton W. v Morton; Airdrieonians v Hearts, and Derry v Shamrock Rovers. . .

5 In Round Three of League Cup, more than 30,000 (with new cash record) saw Fulham defeat Q.P.R. . . . Swindon T. beat Liverpool with two Don Rogers' goals; Nottingham F. lost at Birmingham, and West Ham U. well beaten by Coventry C. . . . Brazil beat Chile 5 1 . . . Pele got a goal, then came off at half time. . . Brian Dear, saved from dole by West Ham U., signed one year contract. . . in draw for European Cup, Waterford against Celtic, Everton against Moenchengladbach; and in Cup Winners Cup, Chelsea paired with Sofia, and Manchester C. with Honved . . .

6 Roger Hunt, one of England's World Cup winning players, dropped by Bolton in League Cup against Leicester C. ; John Manning, who took his place, scored in 1-1 draw. . . Tottenham H., eventual winners of League Cup, scraped through 2-1 against Sheffield U. . . . in semi-final of Scottish League Cup, Dumbarton held Celtic 0-0 after extra time. . . Bobby Tambling, midsummer signing by C. Palace, after month on loan during previous season, scored his first goal for the club. . . Millwall, bottom of Division Two and without a League win, went 2-0 up at Derby in League Cup, but lost 2-4 . . .

8 Tony Allen, former England full back, left Stoke C. for Bury at 10,000 pound fee. . . After C. Palace drawn at home to Arsenal in League Cup, Board raised stand tickets by four and five shillings, but decided against all-ticket match. . . Chelsea drawn against Manchester U. at Old Trafford . . . Bobby Collins, former Gillingham wing half, appointed to club's training and coaching staff . . . free-scoring Oldham Ath., going flat out for the Ford Sporting League trophy, won 2-1 at Colchester U. . . . Rothmans Golden Boots awards presented at London luncheon, by Eusebio, specially flown over from Portugal. . . Phil Gunter, former Portsmouth and England Under 23's full back, resigned as sports coach at Royal Military Acadamy, Sandhurst . . . Announced by F.A. that Jackie Charlton will face JointCommission of F.A. and League for making remarks in a TV interview 'which were considered to have brought the game into disrepute' . . . Arsenal's mid-field player Eddie Kelly escaped a suspension ban at F.A. Disciplinary hearing, because they said he had been 'provoked' on the field. . . was fined 50 pounds and received four weeks suspended sentence. . .

9 David Thompson, Southampton winger, signed by Mansfield T. . . . C. Palace Manager Bert Head defended decision to raise prices for Arsenal match, pointing out that these were the prices chargcd in the previous season, before being lowered for 1970-71 . . . Tommy Booth, Manchester C. centre half, had cartilage operation . . . Corby Town received 60 applications for manager's job, left vacant by resignation of George Swindin . . . Japan, hoping to qualify for 1974 World Cup, invited Tottenham H. to make summer tour. . .

10 Alex Dawson, Brighton centre on loan to Brentford, was booked in first match against Bournemouth . . . Bobby Charlton played in 500th league appearance for Manchester U. when one day short of 33rd birthday. . . said Manager Matt Busby: 'Tomorrow will mark another epic day in a wonderful career. No club has had a more honest or dedicated player' . . . Then United lost 0-1 at home to C. Palace. . . Bobby McKinlay, with 692 first team games on record, retired from playing side of Nottingham F., stayed on as scout. . . Alan Jackson came on as sub for Bromley against Bishops Stortford, sent off after fifteen minutes. . . Bolton W. announced that they were losing 1,000 pounds a week. . . Terry Hennessey Derby Co's. 110,000 pound signing, announced all clear after playing in reserves six weeks after cartilage operation. . . . Jimmy Greaves 350th league goal {all in 1st Division) at Stoke. . .

11 Malta and Greece, in same group as England in Nations Cup, drew 1-1 in Valletta ...

12 Ian Callaghan, Liverpool winger, into hospital for cartilage operation, as Eddie McCreadie, after long list of injuries had limited his season' appearances to one reserve game, faced yet another operation for damaged ankle. . . Leicester C. beat Bolton W. in League Cup replay. . . Coventry C's. attempt to sign West Ham U's. Harry Redknapp, halted when player caught flu. . . Mick Keams (Oxford U.), and Jim Conway {Fulham) withdrew from Eire team against Sweden in Nations Cup. . . with depleted team Eire forced 1-1 draw at Dublin. . . Ken Home, Brentford full back for eleven years, appointed coach to club's newly formed Under-14 team. . . Alf Ramsey, forced to rejig his Under-23's team against West Germany, brought in big Ray Kennedy (Arsenal) and Steve Kember (C. Palace) for first time.

13 Hard-up Peterborough U's. request for 50,000 pound loan turned down by city's Developments Corporation. . . Henry Newton, Nottingham F. defender, signed by Everton in 150,000 pound deal involving Tom Jackson in part-exchange . . . full back Alan Campbell from Coleraine to Grimsby T.; Wimbledon beat a C. Palace team, with seven first-teamers, 2-1 in London Challenge Cup. . .

14 England defeated West Germany Under-23s by 3-1 at Leicester . . . the money taken, 9,863 pounds, was a cash record for an Under-23's international. . . in Scottish League Cup semi-final, Rangers beat Cowdenbeath 2-0 . . . Chelsea announced that they were to spend over a million pounds on a new look for Stamford Bridge . . . eight players and ten clubs, six of them in Second Division, figured in transfer deals worth 263,000 pounds. . . biggest took Tommy Taylor from Orient to West Ham U. in 80,000 pound deal involving Peter Bennett, and Peter Rodrigues cost Sheffield W. 50,000 pounds from Leicester C. . . .

15 Aldershot paid Colchester U. 8,000 pounds for mid-field player Roger Joslyn . . . Crewe Alex. manager Ernie Tagg, stating that younger man was needed to lead Crewe Alex. sacked himself. . . Later Tom McAneamey appointed. . . Chelsea John Dempsey, sent off against Greek team Aris in European Cup Winners Cup, banned from next two games in competition. . . Two West Ham U. players, Alan Stephenson and Ronnie Boyce, in for cartilage operations. . .

16 Announced that Andy McCulloch, Q.P .R. amateur, had turned pro. and would make debut next day against Birmingham C. . . . but would receive no pay as registration as professional not accepted for 48 hours by League. . .

17 Gates of 50,000 at Arsenal (40 v Everton) and Leeds U. (22 with Manchester U.) boosted Football League attendances to 681,698, a slight increase on total for previous year. . . sectional leaders, Leeds U., Hull C., Fulham and Bournemouth . . . Rodney Marsh did hat trick for Q.P.R. in 5-2 win over Birmingham C. . . . Jon Sammels, in first game of season, scored for Arsenal reserves at Norwich . . . The Fairs Cup Committee sent warning, but took no further action, to players of Arsenal and Lazio, for their after-match brawl in Rome. . . Cambridge U., winning only their second away game, had three men booked and two sent off at Lincoln. . . Jack Charlton booked against Manchester U. . . . then scored a goal. . . so brother Bobby replied with his 199th first class goal for Manchester U., a club record. . . Bobby Tambling took his 6-year-old son to Selhurst, and scored two goals against W.B.A. . . . after Derby Co. lost at home to Chelsea they transferred Willie Carlin in the evening to Leicester C. for 40,000 pounds. . . this brought total of money spent by Leicester C. to 175,000 pounds for four players for season. . .

18 Oporto, managed by Tommy Docherty, drew in Portuguese League 2-2 with Benfica, managed by Jimmy Hagan . . . in Spanish League, Bilbao (managed by Ronnie Allen) and Barcelona (Vic Buckingham) both won. . .

19 Ford scored four goals in Hearts 50 win at Airdrie in Texaco Cup. . . Preston N.E. signed Bradford C. scorer Bobby Ham. . . and Leeds U. paid 15.000 pounds for Joe Jordan, who had made only six appearances for Morton. . . Brentford cancelled Mike Maskell's contract. . .

20 Coventry C. took a terrible hammering in the Fairs Cup, losing the first leg in Germany 6-1 to Bayern Munich. . . meanwhile, back in the home ranch, Luton T., by beating Blackburn R., went to the top of the Second Division. . . Malcolm Partridge, Leicester C's. 50,000 pounds signing from Mansfield T., broke his left elbow at Birmingham, and was out of the game for five weeks. . . Soccer sensation as John Battersby, one of the most powerful men in soccer, announced his resignation as Secretary of Chelsea, after 22 years. . . he was previously thirteen years with the Football Association at Lancaster Gate. . .

21 Everton forced a European Cup draw at Moenchengladbach, and Celtic won a slaughter in Ireland, beating Waterford 7-0 . . . in the Cup Winners Cup, Tommy Baldwin's goal beat CSKA in Sofia, and Francis Lee's efforts similarly gained a single goal margin against Honved . . . Cardiff C. looked a certainty for the next round with a 5-1 win over Nantes . . . After one leg of their Fairs Cup games, Dundee U. were 1-3 down, Liverpool 3 up, Leeds U. l-0 in front, Newcastle U. 2 up, and Arsenal one down in Austria. Wolverhampton W. won their Texaco Cup match 3-0, but Tottenham H's. 3-2 home margin against Motherwell proved to be not enough. . . Oxford U., who on September 26 had topped the Second Division for the first time in their history, suffered their second successive home defeat and slumped to sixth place. . . Blackburn R. switched the managerial duties. . . Quigley took over Carey's job as admin. manager, handing the team duties to Johnny Carey. . . Real Madrid suffered a humiliating Cup Winners Cup defeat, 0-1 at home, to Wacker of Vienna. . .

22 Billy Bonds, of West Ham U., suspended for five weeks, fined 100 pounds, and ordered to pay 20 pounds costs, for 'spitting' at a Hull C. player in a League cup-tie . . . Jimmy Conway, Fulham and Eire striker, due for cartilage operation. . .

23 Tony Pocock, publishing company sales manager and club supporter for 25 years. appointed director of Charlton Ath., who announced plans to turn The Valley into a sports centre on the lines of Real Madrid. . .

24 London has four teams in top five of First Division as C. Palace, their best gate of season, 41,486 watching the 1-1 draw with West Ham U., moved into fourth place . . . in order behind Leeds U., Arsenal, Tottenham H., C. Palace, Chelsea. . . a goal by 16-year-old Derek Johnstone, gave Rangers the Scottish League Cup over the holders, Celtic, before 106,000 crowd at Hampden Park. . . Burnley (14 games), Barrow and Newport Co. (15) only clubs still without a win. . . Herbert Metcalfe 63, who tried hard to keep Bradford Park Avenue in the League (they were voted out in favour of Cambridge U.) died in a Bradford hotel. . . Guildford captain Darby Watts, ordered off against Cheshunt in F .A. Cup-tie, after only two minutes play. . .

25 A result from the Austrian League emphasised the sensational mid-week defeat of Real Madrid. . . Wacker, Vienna (bottom club) home, 2, Salzburg 6. . .

26 Walsall supporters protested when they heard that their Division Three match, set for January 2, would be switched to Wolverhampton W. ground. . . eventually held at Walsall's ground, with 19,000 gate and record receipts. . . David Gardiner, of Unity Social, banned for twelve months after incidents in the Warley Alliance game. . . Leslie Shannon resigned from Blackpool, and Jimmy Meadows took over as manager. . .

27 Norwich C. forward Neil O'Donnell, who asked for move in September, requested to be taken off the list. . . After spending œ10,000 on extra lamps for floodlight installation, as requested by television companies, Chelsea caused stir by putting up the charges for matches from 150 pounds to 250 pounds. . . 'we're not graspers' says Chelsea Chairman Brian Nears, 'we are asking for the extra for only the first five matches. It will still take us ten years to get the money back.'

28 Tony Hateley rejoined Notts. Co. for 20.000pounds from Birmingham C., thus returning to his first club, which he had left eight seasons and six clubs back. . . estimated his own personal share of the fees totalled 20,000 pounds out of the 400,000 pounds his wanderings had cost. . . Birmingham C. also recalled George Johnson, on loan from Walsall, to sign for Fulham . . . these two sales sent the transfer sales for the season to over œ1 million in eleven weeks. . . Aston Villa reached quarter finals of Football League Cup with 1-0 win over Carlisle U. . . . C. Palace held at home 0-0 by Arsenal . . . Tottenham H. 5 (Peters 3 Gilzean 2) W .B.A. 0 . . . and Chelsea lost to a wonder goal by George Best at Old Trafford . . . In the return Nations Cup Sweden beat Eire by one goal to nil. . . and although Hibernian lost 2-1 in Portugal, progressed in the Fairs Cup with an overall aggregate of 3-2 over Vitoria Guimaraes . . . Charlton Ath. used up some of the money received from the Campbell transfer to pay Tottenham H. 25,000 pounds for Dennis Bond and 5,000 pounds for Derek Belotti, the Gillingham goalkeeper as cover for their brilliant and colourful keeper Charlie Wright.

29 The six major Pools firms announced that when decimalisation comes into force in February the new stakes would cost more, roughly a twenty per cent increase in stake money. . . Fulham took over at the head of the Ford Sporting League with 36 points, one more than Oldham Ath. . . . Martin Peters won the Daily Mail Footballer of the Week Award, following the first week winner of Terry Cooper . . . in the draw for the quarter finals of the League Cup, the two Third Division sides, Aston Villa and Bristol R. were paired. . . other ties drawn Fulham v Leicester C. or Bristol C.; Tottenham H. v Coventry C.; Manchester U. v Arsenal or C. Palace . . .

30 Bournemouth give first game to John Benson, signed two days previously from Torquay U. . . . and George Johnson makes his debut for Fulham . . . announced Portsmouth made a loss of 57,985 pounds on previous year. . .

31 Rodney Marsh, chosen to captain Q.P.R. for first time (at Millwall), shaved off his beard in order to fulfil the dignity of the occasion. . . unfortunately Millwall won 3-0 . . . when a linesman pulled a muscle during the Liverpool v Wolverhampton W. game, his place was taken by Mr. J. Collihole, a first class referee from Watford, who was watching his last game before emigrating to Australia. . . Mike Trebilcock scored a hat trick for Portsmouth against Blackburn R. in the first sixteen minutes. . . Burnley, playing C. Palace, fielded six members of the team which won the F .A. Youth Cup in 1968, and then won their first league game of the season. . . Joe Baker's goal for Sunderland was the first conceded at home by Luton T. in eight games, and Sunderland won 2-1 . . . Luigi Riva broke a leg playing for Italy against Austria in Vienna.