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Questions for club historians

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:26 am
by DesmondHaynes
Apologies if these questions have already been covered.
1. Have we ever gone unbeaten at home in a season of league football?
2. If so, have we ever gone unbeaten at home in a full season including league and FA cups?
3. What is the fewest defeats we have had in a season?
4. Tough one. Have we ever been knocked out of both cups by the eventual winner?!
Thanks to anyone can provide the answers.

Re: Questions for club historians

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 10:42 am
by Claret1205
4. Yes. 1960-61 knocked out of FA Cup by Tottenham & League Cup by Aston Villa, both at semi-final stage.

Re: Questions for club historians

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:27 pm
by sjb
1. Yes 1897/8. Won 14 & drew 1 of our 15 home games.
1900/01 Won 15 & drew 2 of our 17 home games
1911/12 Won 14 & drew 5 of our 19 home games
Technically we were also unbeaten at home in the truncated 1939/40 season - but we only played 1 game!

Re: Questions for club historians

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 12:47 pm
by DesmondHaynes
Thank you for the replies so far.

Re: Questions for club historians

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:11 pm
by Roger Mellie
Two in 1897-98.
2-1 away at Grimsby and 2-0 at Luton.

We also lost a test match 2-0 at home to Stoke ( play offs before play offs were invented ) but still got promoted to Div 1.

Re: Questions for club historians

Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 1:11 pm
by Roger Mellie
Answer to Q3 obviously..