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Saturday 10th January 1920 F.A Cup Round One (equivalent of Round 3 now)
SHEFFIELD UNITED 3-0 SOUTHEND UNITED
Sheffield United were the current Cup Holders and a good first division side, earlier in the season they had a couple of weeks at second in the table, dropped to 5th for a month or so but then had settled down to a mid table position. They had an excellent ground (for the time) with stands on three sides, but it was a ground which they shared with Yorkshire cricket club and one of the stands was said to be some 150 yards from the pitch and you can only imagine that the view must have been somewhat restricted. Sheffield were extremely please to hold the tie, it was the first home cup tie for five years with excitement high in the town. The team travelled up on the Friday and it snowed quite heavily, this turned to rain but during the day the ground staff worked hard and the pitch looked in excellent condition but as kick off approached the drizzle turned to downpours. Undoubtedly the conditions put many off going the attendance was 39,700 but Sheffield officials stated with good weather they would have expected 50,000. It was however the second largest of the day, and the largest crowd that Southend had ever played in front of. As the game got under way the pitch turned into a quagmire, we fell a goal behind within four minutes, but then recovered well until a second just before half time settled the result. In the second half Sheffield United were awarded a dubious penalty, which was parried by the goalkeeper but he was powerless to stop the rebound going in.
Team: Leahy; Reid and Marshall; Wileman; Bollington and Sands; Bridgeman; Burrill, Frost, Jones and J. Young.
Their was a lot of critiscm of transferring the Cup game from the Kursaal to Sheffield, but looking at the attendance at Brammall game it was obviously the right decision and the cash that was made was enough to clear our debts, the Southend Standard reported we had been beaten but in no way disgraced, but the general feeling was that if the game had been played at the Kursaal we would have had a good chance of beating them.
Saturday 10th January 1920 F.A Cup Round One (equivalent of Round 3 now)
SHEFFIELD UNITED 3-0 SOUTHEND UNITED
Sheffield United were the current Cup Holders and a good first division side, earlier in the season they had a couple of weeks at second in the table, dropped to 5th for a month or so but then had settled down to a mid table position. They had an excellent ground (for the time) with stands on three sides, but it was a ground which they shared with Yorkshire cricket club and one of the stands was said to be some 150 yards from the pitch and you can only imagine that the view must have been somewhat restricted. Sheffield were extremely please to hold the tie, it was the first home cup tie for five years with excitement high in the town. The team travelled up on the Friday and it snowed quite heavily, this turned to rain but during the day the ground staff worked hard and the pitch looked in excellent condition but as kick off approached the drizzle turned to downpours. Undoubtedly the conditions put many off going the attendance was 39,700 but Sheffield officials stated with good weather they would have expected 50,000. It was however the second largest of the day, and the largest crowd that Southend had ever played in front of. As the game got under way the pitch turned into a quagmire, we fell a goal behind within four minutes, but then recovered well until a second just before half time settled the result. In the second half Sheffield United were awarded a dubious penalty, which was parried by the goalkeeper but he was powerless to stop the rebound going in.
Team: Leahy; Reid and Marshall; Wileman; Bollington and Sands; Bridgeman; Burrill, Frost, Jones and J. Young.
Their was a lot of critiscm of transferring the Cup game from the Kursaal to Sheffield, but looking at the attendance at Brammall game it was obviously the right decision and the cash that was made was enough to clear our debts, the Southend Standard reported we had been beaten but in no way disgraced, but the general feeling was that if the game had been played at the Kursaal we would have had a good chance of beating them.
