Match Centre

Saturday August 29th, 1970

Football League Division Two

Swindon Town

2 - 0

2

A. Horsfield (13'), T. Gough (39')

Sunderland

Sunderland

0

A. Horsfield (13'), T. Gough (39')
(HT: 2-0)

Attendance: 17,060

H. Davey
County Ground, Swindon

Videos


Goals from Arthur Horsfield and Tony Gough see off Sunderland - but the main talking point is a delay in the game, due to the goalposts collapsing!

Newspaper Reports


Results


Football League Division Two results on Saturday August 29th, 1970:

Birmingham City Birmingham 1-1 Luton Town Luton Town
Bolton Wanderers Bolton 2-2 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R.
Bristol City Bristol City 1-0 Cardiff City Cardiff City
Leicester City Leicester City 2-2 Carlisle United Carlisle United
Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 0-2 Oxford United Oxford United
Millwall Millwall 0-0 Portsmouth Portsmouth
Norwich City Norwich City 1-0 Sheffield United Sheffield United
Orient Orient 0-0 Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic
Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday 1-1 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn
Swindon Town Swindon 2-0 Sunderland Sunderland
Watford Watford 1-2 Hull City Hull City

Table


Football League Division Two table after matches on Saturday August 29th, 1970:

Pos. Team P Home Away TOTAL
W D L F A W D L F A W D L F A GA Pts
1 Birmingham City Birmingham 3 1 1 0 3 2 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 0 6 2 3 5
2 Oxford United Oxford United 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 0 0 4 1 2 1 0 5 2 2.50 5
3 Hull City Hull City 3 1 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 3 2 2 1 0 4 2 2 5
4 Bristol City Bristol City 3 2 0 0 5 3 0 1 0 1 1 2 1 0 6 4 1.50 5
5 Cardiff City Cardiff City 4 0 1 0 2 2 2 0 1 3 2 2 1 1 5 4 1.25 5
6 Bolton Wanderers Bolton 4 2 1 0 8 5 0 0 1 0 4 2 1 1 8 9 0.89 5
7 Portsmouth Portsmouth 3 1 0 0 4 0 0 2 0 1 1 1 2 0 5 1 5 4
8 Orient Orient 3 1 1 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 3 1 3 4
9 Norwich City Norwich City 3 1 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 1 2 0 2 1 2 4
10 Sheffield Wednesday Sheffield Wednesday 5 1 1 1 3 3 0 1 1 2 3 1 2 2 5 6 0.83 4
11 Swindon Town Swindon 3 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 1 1 4 3 1.33 3
12 Leicester City Leicester City 3 0 1 1 2 3 1 0 0 3 1 1 1 1 5 4 1.25 3
13 Watford Watford 3 1 0 1 3 3 0 1 0 3 3 1 1 1 6 6 1 3
14 Millwall Millwall 3 0 1 1 1 2 0 1 0 2 2 0 2 1 3 4 0.75 2
15 Blackburn Rovers Blackburn 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 2 3 0 2 1 2 3 0.67 2
16 Luton Town Luton Town 3 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 1 3 5 0 2 1 3 5 0.60 2
17 Sheffield United Sheffield United 3 1 0 0 2 1 0 0 2 1 4 1 0 2 3 5 0.60 2
18 Charlton Athletic Charlton Athletic 3 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 2 1 1 2 0.50 2
19 Middlesbrough Middlesbrough 3 1 0 1 2 3 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 2 2 4 0.50 2
20 Sunderland Sunderland 3 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 2 3 6 0 1 2 6 9 0.67 1
21 Queens Park Rangers Q.P.R. 3 0 0 1 1 3 0 1 1 3 4 0 1 2 4 7 0.57 1
22 Carlisle United Carlisle United 3 0 0 1 0 3 0 1 1 3 4 0 1 2 3 7 0.43 1

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