28-12-2021, 10:01 PM
A bit bored, so been reading up on how football coped with Spanish Flu - which was much more deadly than Covid.
No evidence of any disruption to games - for players or fans! Guess people were made of sterner stuff in those days!
What really hacked me off though was that Pompey finished Champions of the Southern League and were then promoted into Football League Division 3 South as was the entire league.............. apart from Cardiff City who finished behind us in 4th place yet were elected to Division 2.
Seems as though corruption was rife back then - e.g. Arsenal were 6th in div 2 yet were promoted to div 1 (and never been relegated since!) rather than teams such as Barnsley and Wolves who finished above them
No evidence of any disruption to games - for players or fans! Guess people were made of sterner stuff in those days!
What really hacked me off though was that Pompey finished Champions of the Southern League and were then promoted into Football League Division 3 South as was the entire league.............. apart from Cardiff City who finished behind us in 4th place yet were elected to Division 2.
Seems as though corruption was rife back then - e.g. Arsenal were 6th in div 2 yet were promoted to div 1 (and never been relegated since!) rather than teams such as Barnsley and Wolves who finished above them