derlandBristolor Coventry.
These three teamsthenhad everything to play for on that Saturday.
Sunderland were playing against a fourth team (whose tenure in the
First Division was not in doubt). Bristol and Coventry happened to
be playing against each other. It was known thatif Sunderland lost
their gamethen Bristol and Coventry needed only to draw against
each other in order to stay in the First Division. But if Sunderland
wonthen the team relegated would be either Bristol or Coventry
depending on the outcome of their game against each other. The two
crucial games were theoretically simultaneous. As a matter of fact
howeverthe Bristol-Coventry game happened to be running five
minutes late. Because of thisthe result of the Sunderland game
became known before the end of the Bristol-Coventry game.
Thereby hangs this whole complicated tale.
For most of the game bet [link widoczny dla zalogowanych][link widoczny dla zalogowanych]n Bristol and Coventry the play was
to quote one contemporary news report'fast and often furious'an
exciting (if you like that sort of thing) ding-dong battle. Some
brilliant goals from both sides had seen to it that the score was 2-all
by the eightieth minute of the match. Thentwo minutes before the
end of the gamethe news came throuyilai:
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