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| Event | 1929–30 First Division | ||||||
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| Date | 21 April 1930 | ||||||
| Venue | Filbert Street, Leicester | ||||||
| Attendance | 27,241 | ||||||
The 1929–30 season First Division match between Leicester City and Arsenal at Filbert Street took place on 21 April 1930. The game finished as a 6–6 draw, the highest scoring draw in the history of first class English football.[1] The record still stands today though was matched in a Second Division fixture between Charlton Athletic and Middlesbrough in October 1960.[2][3]
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Summary
The game took place five days before Arsenal's FA Cup final against Huddersfield Town and the club rested a number of players. Arsenal's David Halliday scored four goals[4] as Arsenal came back from a half-time scoreline of 3–1 to draw the game 6–6[5] The Gunners also had a goal disallowed.[5][6][7]
Aftermath
Arsenal played in the FA Cup final later in the same week. Despite his four goals Halliday was not selected for the game.[4] Arsenal went on to lift the trophy, defeating Huddersfield Town 2–0.[8] Halliday now had five goals from his last three Arsenal first teams games.[4] However after the Leicester 6-6 draw he never played for Arsenal's first team again.[4]
Halliday later became Leicester's manager.[4][9]
References
- ^ Harding, John (21 April 2011). "On This Day In History: April 21". Give Me Football. Archived from the original on 11 July 2011. Retrieved 10 March 2014.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ Arsenal's A to Z... L is for Ljungberg | News Archive | News | Arsenal.com
- ^ On this day | Trivia | This Is Bristol
- ^ a b c d e "Queens Legends, Dave Halliday" www.qosfc.com
- ^ a b https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1946&dat=19300422&id=rnAtAAAAIBAJ&sjid=OYwFAAAAIBAJ&pg=6846,3597311
- ^ Forward, Arsenal! – Google Books
- ^ https://books.google.com/books?id=grXiAUEzVZoC&pg=PA1928&dq=leicester+city+6-6+arsenal&hl=en&sa=X&ei=CvDvToKiCMnr8QO1vqSdCg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=leicester%20city%206-6%20arsenal&f=false
- ^ Motson's Fa Cup Odyssey: The World's ... – Google Books
- ^ https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2011/oct/06/forgotten-story-leicester-city-ice-kings