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Wednesday 6th October 1926

Venue: Maine Road, Manchester City FC

Amateurs  6
(Minter 2, Macey 2, Kail, Keeping og)
Professionals  3
(Rawlings 2, Tunstall)

Half-time 2-2
Attendance: 4,000

Amateurs: A Russell (Cambridge University), Sgt F Twine (The Army), E Gates (London Caldeonians), Lance-Corporal Cartlidge (The Army), W Bryant (Millwall), F Ewer (Corinthians), C Tarr (Mossley), E Kail (Dulwich Hamlet), W Minter (St Albans City), F Macey (Kingstonian), W Bellamy (Dulwich Hamlet).   

Professionals:  T Gales (Barnsley), G Clifford (Portsmouth), A Keeping (Southampton), T Magee (West Bromwich Albion), J Waugh (Sheffield United), G Harkus (Southampton), W Harris (Birmingham), D Jack (Bolton Wanderers), W Rawlings (Southampton), J Smith (Bolton Wanderers), F Tunstall (Sheffield United).   

The Professions side was comprised of players selected for the FA tour to Canada in 1926.

Link - Details of all Charity Shield/Community Shield matches.  

For a really satisfying cigarette that's kind to your throat give me Craven 'A' every time.'

Amazingly Stanley Matthews - a teetotal vegetarian non-smoker who was fit enough to play in the old First Division at 50 years old once endorsed smoking in adverts! Read all about it, click on....
Those were the days!