Query Update

Over the last couple of weeks we’ve opened up a couple of statistical queries and here we bring you up to date with their progress.Over the last couple of weeks we’ve opened up a couple of statistical queries and here we bring you up to date with their progress.

Our AFS Performance of the Week last week featured Chesterfield’s first-ever league win in the city of Bristol. As the first attempt dates back to 7 December 1901, we wondered if this had ended the longest hoodoo in English football.

AFS member and Chesterfield historian Stuart Basson has been in touch and he informs us that it hasn’t even ended the Spireites longest hoodoo!

They’ve tried to win at Manchester United on ten occasions over the years but have yet to be successful.

The first attempt dates back to Chesterfield’s first season in the Football League when United were then known as Newton Heath. Before an attendance of 3,000, the Second Division match was played at the Bank Street Ground in Clayton on 28 April 1900.

The Heathens won 2-1 with goals from J Holt (in his only League appearance) and J Grundy. The Spireites scorer was Bill Gooing.

We also related the story of the three Holsgrove brothers who all scored in Windsor & Eton’s 3-3 draw with Heybridge Swifts in a Ryman League Premier Division game on Saturday 8 January.

We suspect this occurrence of three brothers scoring in the same game is a unique event and, as yet, we are unable still unable to prove otherwise.

If you think it has happened before or know of a longer hoodoo, we’d be delighted and grateful to hear from you. Please forward the details to mark@11v11.com

Our photo shows the Chesterfield team from the 1949-50 season