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.