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1st Division

Bramall Lane | Saturday 26 August 1939 at 15:00 UK local time

Sheffield United 2 - 1 Liverpool

Half time 1–1

Starting Lineup (Average age 24.61)

1
Dirk Kemp
2
Jim Harley
3
Bernard Ramsden
4
Matt Busby (c)
5
Tom Bush
6
Jimmy McInnes
7
Berry Nieuwenhuys
8
Phil Taylor
9
Willie Fagan
10
Jack Balmer
11
Harman van den Berg

Opposition Lineup

Jack Smith
Dick Young
Joe Carr
Ernest Jackson
Tom Johnson
Alf Settle
Harold Hampson
Alf Jefferies
George Henson
Jimmy Hagan
Bobby Reid

Notes

  • - The three league games played in the 1939-40 season were expunged from Football League records as the season was stopped due to World War II. The games are therefore not considered valid by LFChistory.net and as the "Association of football statisticians" does not count them towards official player totals.
    - The mandatory decision to put numbers on the back of football shirts was officially decreed on June 5, 1939, at the Football League’s annual general meeting after voting 24 to 20 in favor of making shirt numbers mandatory. Players had to wear numbers 1 through 11, assigned strictly by their pitch positions.
    • The Setup: The numbering followed the standard 2-3-5 formation of the era:
    • 1: Goalkeeper
    • 2 & 3: Fullbacks
    • 4, 5 & 6: Halfbacks
    • 7, 8, 9, 10 & 11: Forwards (with #9 acting as the traditional center-forward).

Other details

Manager: George Kay
Opposition manager: Unknown
Referee: Ross-Gower EW
Attendance: 25,483
Half-time score: 1 - 1

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HT 1–1
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Jimmy Hagan
Minute unknown
Jimmy McInnes
Full time 1–2