29 September

1886: - Bob Crompton signed for Blackburn Rovers. Regarded as the greatest right-back of his day he stayed with the club until May 1920 which became the longest spell any player had been with one club. This was surpassed in 1953 when Ted Sagar completed 24 years with Everton.

1928: - Ealing played St. Leonards and became the first amateur match to be played at Wembley Stadium when they meet in the Southern Amateur League.

1947: - Following a match between Zagłębie Sosnowiec and AKS Chorzów in Poland, one fan died and other were injured after skirmishes broke out between police and fans. Zagłębie Sosnowiec, who had missed out on promotion to the First Division, tried to attacks AKS’s players, the referee and the officers.

1962: - At the age of 15 years and 9 months, Peter Lorimer made his debut for Leeds United against Southampton at Elland Road.

1964: - Bill McGarry was appointed as manager of Ipswich Town. He took the club to the Second Division title but walked out of the club a year later in 1968.

1992: - Wimbledon owner Sam Hammam labelled Vinnie Jones a “mosquito brain” for his involvement in a video glorifying cheating and violence in football.

2001: - Tottenham Hotspur surrendered a 3-0 home lead given to them by Dean Richards, Les Ferdinand and Christian Ziege, to Manchester United to eventually lose 5-3 after goals from Andy Cole, Laurent Blanc, Ruud van Nistelrooy, Juan Sebastian Veron and David Beckham.

2007: - Portsmouth beat Reading 7-4 at Fratton Park in an FA Premier League match. The match, which saw 11 goals, became the highest scoring match in Premier League history.

28 September

1878: - The Lancashire Football Association was formed by 23 clubs following a meeting in the Volunteer Inn in Bromley Cross.

1891: - The Uruguayan club; Club Atlético Penarol was founded in Montevideo. Originally called the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club it was founded through the impetus of employers and workers of Montevideo’s Central Uruguay Railway which had operated in Uruguay since 1878. Of the 118 founding members, 72 were British, one was German, and 45 were Uruguayan.

1893: - FC Porto was founded, in the northern city of Porto, by the wine-salesman António Nicolau de Almeida’ who had his first contact with the game of football on one of his trips to England.

1920: - Tommy Miller transferred from Liverpool to Manchester United, after 8 years at Anfield. He only spent one season at Old Trafford before moving onto Heart of Midlothian.

1933: - Walter Bussey was signed by Blackpool from Stoke City. He also went onto play for Swansea Town and Exeter City.

1946: - Wolverhampton Wanderers’ Billy Wright won his first England cap.

1951: - Sammy Smyth moved to Stoke City from Wolverhampton Wanderers. He left Stoke in 1953 for Liverpool. In total he scored 68 goals in 172 League matches.

1955: - The FA Cup match between Carlisle United and Darlington became the first floodlit FA Cup match between two Football League clubs.

1966: - Tommy Walker was sacked as manager of Heart of Midlothian. While in charge of the club he guided the club to its first success in over 50 years as they twice won the League in 1958 and 1960 and also won the Scottish Cup in 1956 and the League Cup three times in 1955, 1960 and 1963.

1992: - The German striker, Rudi Voeller announced his retirement from international football.

1996: - Arsenal appointed the Frenchmen Arsène Wenger as their new manager.

1997: - Manchester United captain Roy Keane suffered knee ligament damage against Leeds United and was ruled out for the season.

27 September

1884: - The Glasgow Evening News put out the first ever issue of a special Saturday night football paper. The paper is now defunct.

1924: - Swansea Town’s, Jack Fowler scored 5 goals against Charlton Athletic in a Third Division South match. He went onto score 102 goals in 167 League games for the Swans.

1931: - Don Mills, transferred to Leeds United from Cardiff City. From 1946 to 1962 he was one of the most consistent players in the game. At the end of his career he had played in 464 League games and scored 96 goals.

1961: - Ted Drake, the Chelsea manager was sacked. He had been in charge for nine years and guided them to the League Championship in the 1954-1955 season.

2003: - Leyton Orient sacked their manager Paul Brush after a 3-0 defeat in League Two against Huddersfield Town.

2004: - Billy Davies was appointed Preston North End’s manager on a permanent basis.

26 September

1908: - SK Brann were formed after 10 men met in a local cafe in Bergen. Due to the dissatisfaction of the current state of the local football clubs in Bergen, they decided to form a new football club. They called it Ski-og Fodboldklubben Brann (Ski and Football Club Brann). This was later changed to Sportsklubben Brann (Sport Club Brann).

1936: - Denis Compton made his League debut for Arsenal against Derby County. He became a fine outside-left and his career last until 1950 during which he won an FA Cup medal in his last match for Arsenal against Liverpool. He also scored 15 goals and played in 54 peace-time League games and 11 war-time internationals for England.

1948: - England were held to a 0-0 draw in Copenhagen in their first ever international with Denmark in one of the surprise international results of all time.

1955: - Don Kichenbrand signed for Rangers from Boksburg of South Africa. The centre-forward scored 24 goals in 25 matches, winning a Championship medal at the end of his first season. He however, only played in 4 games, scoring just twice the following season. He then spent two seasons with Sunderland scoring 28 goals in 43 games but left the game shortly afterwards.

1956: - Manchester United beat Anderlecht 10-0 in the European Cup 1st Round, 2nd Leg tie, winning 12-0 on aggregate after they beat the Belgium side 2-0 in the 1st Leg. The game was the first such tie to be played in England. United’s goals came from Viollet (4), Taylor (3), Berry and Whelan (2).

1960: - Fulham’s Maurice Coo became the first player to score in the Football League Cup when he scored in the 9th minute of his sides’ game against Bristol Rovers at Eastville Stadium. Despite this early setback, Bristol Rovers went onto win the game 2-1.

1962: - Arthur Rowley scored his 411th League goal against Millwall for Shrewsbury Town. This landmark made him the highest ever scorer in British football, beating the 410 goals scored by Glasgow Celtic’s Jimmy McGrory. McGrory, however, did it in fewer seasons as it only took him 15 seasons to reach his total, whereas Rowley was in his 17th.

1969: A Lloyd Aereo Boliviano aircraft disappeared at 4,000m near the Tres Cruces in the High Andes. The plane was carrying the first team of the Bolivian side The Strongest back from a fixture at Santa Cruz de la Sierra. Three days later, a military search party found the plane with the 19 team members and another 50 passengers and crew all dead.

1984: - The legendary Russian goalkeeper Lev Yashin underwent a leg amputation. The complications in this leg amputation would eventually lead to his death.

1993: - Sir John Moores, the former Everton chairman died at the age of 97.

25 September

1869: - Clapham Rovers beat The Wanderers 1-0 in the clubs’ first ever match, despite the Wanderers being one of the most successful clubs of the time.

1904: - Charles Follis became the first black player to play professional football after he signed a contract with Ohio Shelby Blues.

1929: - Joe Bradford scored 5 goals for the Football League against the Irish League at Goodison Park. The Birmingham inside-forward was probably the greatest forward Birmingham ever had as he scored 250 goals in 413 League matches for the club between 1919 and 1935.

1933: - Blackburn Rovers’ inside-left; Tommy McLean and Sheffield Wednesday’s inside-left Harry Burgess came together during the First Division match between the two sides at Ewood Park. The two players however left the pitch before the referee Harry Mee could send them off.

1936: - Hughie Gallacher for the first time in a 15 year career transferred out of the First Division when he transferred from Derby County to Notts County, who were then in the Third Division South. Before the Second World War a total of £23,000 was spent on his transfers which were a record at the time. He moved from Airdrieonians to Newcastle United in 1925 for £6,500, to Chelsea in 1930 for £10,000, to Derby County in 1934 for £3,000. Notts County signed him in 1937 for £2,000 but that moved lasted less than a year when he moved onto Grimsby Town for £1,000. A move to Gateshead followed in 1938 for £500. In his 18 years in the Scottish and English Football Leagues he scored 386 goals in 549 matches.

1963: - Tom Finney came out of retirement to play a European Cup tie for Distillery against SL Benfica. The former Preston North End and England winger inspired the Irish club to a 3-3 draw. However without his influence the club lost the second-leg 5-0.

2006: - Millwall parted company with their manager Nigel Spackman, following five successive defeats, the latest being a 1-0 defeat to Northampton Town on Saturday 23rd September.

2006: - Four Greek football fans were charged with causing a public disturbance following Panathinaikos’ 2-1 win over PAOK Thessaloniki. The rioting started by Panathinaikos fans after the match resulted in 24 cars, 2 buses, and a motorcycle being seriously damaged or destroyed when they attacked them with iron bars and gasoline bombs. 7 people were initially detained inside the stadium for violent behaviour, but three of them were later released without charge.

2006: - The French coach Raymond Domenech called for two referees on the pitch in Ligue 1 matches, after a string of controversial decisions happened in the early part of the 2006-2007 season.

2006: - Gigi Multescu resigned as manager of the Romanian club Vaslui, after picking up only 1 win and 5 points from 9 matches.

2006: - FIFA upheld the 6-month ban to football agent Olivier Jouanneaux, for his part in AS Roma’s Philippe Mexes’ controversial transfer from AJ Auxerre. Jouanneaux was suspended in February 2006 and was fined 50,000 Swiss Francs ($41,000).

2006: - The Uruguayan striker Dario Silva had his right leg amputated, remaining in a serious condition after a car crash. The former Portsmouth and Sevilla striker lost control of the vehicle, which hit a row of street lights. Former Uruguay internationals Elbio Pappa and Dardo Pereira were also in the car only suffering minor injuries.

2006: - Mehdi Mahdavikia of Hamburger SV, was handed a three-match ban and fined €5,000 for violent conduct, after he was sent-off in the 73rd minute of Hamburg’s 1-1 draw with Werder Bremen on 23rd September, following a bad challenge on Diego who left the pitch with a knee injury.

2006: - The Mexican club Necaxa announced Hugo Sanchez as their new manager, while the former Ecuador captain Alex Aguinaga was announced as their new sporting director.

24 September

1929: - Sam Wadsworth transferred to Burnley from Huddersfield Town. The left-back was most involved in the coaching side with Burnley, playing in only 7 matches in 2 seasons after a brilliant career with the Yorkshire side.

1952: - Bolton Wanderers’ Nat Lofthouse scored 6 goals in the Football League’s 7-1 win over the League of Ireland at Wolverhampton.

1958: - Leeds United signed Willie Humphries from Ards. However, the international outside-right only lasted two seasons in Yorkshire before returning to Ireland. He came back to the Football League in 1962 when he signed for Coventry City and won a Third Division medal with the club in 1964. He later played for Swansea Town.

1964: - Nigel Sims transferred to Peterborough United from Aston Villa. The 14.5 stone goalkeeper had moved to Villa in 1956 from Wolverhampton Wanderers.

1966: - P. Conn of Queens Park came on as a substitute during the Scottish Second Division game between Queens Park and Albion Rovers. In doing so he became the first substitute to be used in the Scottish League.

2006: - Fans of the Albanian side Flamurtari hurled stones and water bottles, and chanted abusive chants towards the referee after he awarded a controversial penalty against them during their match against Teuta Durres. The game was 1-1 when the referee awarded the visiting side a penalty in the 79th minute which they converted to go 2-1 up. Members of the Flamurtari bench then ran onto the pitch towards the referee and the fans started chanting sexually-abusive chants. The coaches were led away by police while a fan punched a linesman and at least one policeman was hit with a water-bottle. The Vlore Mayor Shpetim Gjika intervened to calm the situation and allow the match to proceed with the visitors holding on to win 2-1. The Major then walked in front of the referee, who was surrounded by a dozen policemen, appealing to fans to hurl objects at the end of the match.

2006: - 1 fan was killed and 3 other fans hospitalised after street clashes that ended with the arrests of 160, before the match between the Colombian League leaders Deportes Tolima and Millionarios. The violence began when fans from Deportes Tolima defied the 1,000 police, sent to reinforce security, threw rocks at the bus carrying the visiting Millionarios squad. Following Tolima’s 1-0 victory the fighting resumed and Millionarios fan Alejando Galindo was killed when he was run over by a bus, while three other Millionarios fans were taken to a hospital with minor injuries.

23 September

1920: - Frank Barson, the centre-half and Clem Stephenson, the inside left was suspended for two weeks by Aston Villa for refusing to play against Bolton Wanderers. The club also gave them one month to take up residence in Birmingham. Villa for keen to enforce a local residence policy for their playing staff at the time but the wrangle with these two players was never resolved and led to both them and the clubs’ goalkeeper Sam Hardy to leave the club. Barson moved to Manchester United, Stephenson to Huddersfield Town and Hardy to Nottingham Forest.

1957: - Len Davies, the Cardiff City and Welsh international forward for the 1920s died. He played at a time when Cardiff had one of their most successful teams in their history and was in the side when they almost won the League Championship in 1924 but won the FA Cup with the club in 1927. He also played for Thames in the Third Division South.

1958: - Peter Wakeham, transferred to Sunderland from Torquay United. The promising goalkeeper had only just established himself with the West Country club. He later moved to Charlton Athletic, Lincoln City and then played non-league football with Poole Town in 1966.

1965: - Ernie Hunt transferred to Wolverhampton Wanderers from Swindon Town. He was popularly known as Ernie even though his real name was Roger. He only played 31 times for Wolverhampton Wanderers in an incomplete season.

1983: - Pat Jennings became the first Irishman to represent Northern Ireland in 100 matches. He reached the feat when he played against Austria. At the same time he also became the first player in Britain to achieve a century of caps. Northern Ireland won the match 3-1.