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* The FA Cup Second Round match between Manchester City and Sunderland, two of the top sides of the period, on Saturday February 1st 1913 was abandoned due to problems with the crowd (Sunderland were leading 2-0 at the time). The official attendance at Hyde Road was 41,709 although it was estimated that 50,000 were in the ground with many thousands more locked out of it. The crowd spilled onto the pitch forcing an abandonment. Manchester City were fined £500 and the re-arranged match was staged at Roker Park.

That re-arranged match played four days later at Roker Park also saw some serious crowd problems as reported in a newspaper at the time....

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!