Im tryi g to trace my first match

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blackthorn8

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I'm sure as l can it was 1942 in the Southern league but can't find a bloody thing also sureit was Aldershot we were in the Southern League.
According to my late grandad,i but cant find a bloody thing. As there is little information.
 
God knows where I got Aldershot from dozy old bugger.
According to my late father's diary it was Wolves 2 -0 Herbert Chapman scored both.

I'm going bloody senile Aldershot FFS
 
Herbert Chapman??????
Never played for Leicester.
And he managed Arsenal in the 1930s.
Do you mean Vernon Chapman?
 
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Trouble is Soho there were so many changes to players even last minute jobs when they couldn't get leave we had quite a few guest.players probably l am wrong l could be Jesus man it's 80 years ago.
And dad's fading book didn't help
 
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Yes but it would be very hard for someone who had died 8 years previously aged 55 to then rise from the grave to score 2 goals for Leicester v Wolves in 1942.

Vernon Chapman it must have been.
 
First game in 1941! Bloody hell. Incredible.

Here's the match report. Leicester 2 Wolves 0. September 27th 1941:

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A few more points about that game.

Billy Wright was playing centre-forward for Wolves. The previous season he'd guested for us.

Two weeks before, Vernon Chapman had scored ten goals for Leicester City Colts (= reserves) in a 17-0 win against Holwell Works at Filbert Street - the greatest ever haul for a player in a Leicester City shirt.

Interesting that you called it a 'Southern League' match. It kind of was - it was called the Footbal League Southern Section. In the 1970s, Vernon Chapman was boss of Enderby Town for a couple of spells - including shortly after they were elected to the Southern League to fill the gap created when Hereford United were elected to the Football League in 1972, replacing Barrow.
 
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I didn’t know the football continued during the war
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It did....they formed a Wartime League north and south we were in the northern section from 1942 to 1944 we won the southern section in 1941/42 Guest players were allowed to play .those on leave from army commitments
 
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Sohofox said:
Kendal - why were the crowds so small?
Was it because so many men were away in the armed forces?
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I think It was mainly the fact that what was on offer was not the real thing - so many players had signed up, teams were full of guest players and the official Football League was suspended. What was left was really exhibition matches, and the crowds were I suppose fairly similar to those for friendly matches in later years. When there really was an event - like the 1941 semi-final of the 'War Cup' at Filbert Street, over 30,000 turned up - and people were in fact locked out.

 
Think it was 3d for me to get in, in those days and 1d for a one sheet blue programme the tannoy read out HT scores .....2 pm kickoff during winter
 
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