The City Ground

SEASON: 1890-91

Prev Season: 1889-90
This Season: 1890-91
Next Season: 1891-92

DIVISION:: Football Alliance (Tier 2)
MANAGER(s):: Harry Radford
FA Cup:: Quarter Final (Sunderland (A) 0-4)
League Cup:: Did not exist

Top Goalscorer:: Alex Higgins (11 goals)

WHAT HAPPENED
This was our second season in the newly-formed Football Alliance and this season we finished 5th. We entered a request for election to the Football League but this was denied so we were to have one more season in the Alliance...

TABLE

FOOTBALL ALLIANCE (Tier 2) - 1890-91

SEASON END TABLE								Home					Away								Results
Pos	Team	P	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	W	D	L	F	A	GD	Pts	Result	Home	Away
1	Stoke	22	13	7	2	57	39	9	2	0	33	15	4	5	2	24	24	1.46154	33	Champions; Elected to�Football League	2-2	1-2
2	Sunderland Albion	22	11	7	4	59	28	8	3	0	37	6	3	4	4	22	22	2.10714	29	Football League application rejected; left to join the Northern League	1-1	0-0
3	Grimsby Town	22	11	5	6	43	27	9	2	0	31	9	2	3	6	12	18	1.59259	27		1-1	0-3
4	Birmingham St George's	22	12	2	8	64	62	9	0	2	41	22	3	2	6	23	40	1.03226	26		4-0	3-6
5	Nottingham Forest	22	9	7	6	66	39	6	4	1	39	15	3	3	5	27	24	1.69231	23*	Football League application rejected
6	Darwen	22	10	3	9	64	59	7	3	1	45	20	3	0	8	19	39	1.08475	23	Elected to the Football League	5-2	4-4
7	Walsall Town Swifts	22	9	4	9	34	51	6	1	4	22	22	3	3	5	12	29	.66667	22		2-0	2-3
8	Crewe Alexandra	22	8	4	10	59	67	5	1	5	28	29	3	3	5	31	38	.88060	20		5-2	7-0
9	Newton Heath LYR	22	7	3	12	37	55	5	3	3	25	22	2	0	9	12	33	.67273	17	Football League application rejected	8-2	1-1
10	Small Heath	22	7	2	13	58	66	6	0	5	34	23	1	2	8	24	43	.87879	16		4-5	2-4
11	Bootle	22	3	7	12	40	61	3	6	2	28	18	0	1	10	12	43	.65574	13		7-0	5-1
12	The Wednesday	22	4	5	13	39	66	4	3	4	30	26	0	2	9	9	40	.59091	13		0-0	2-0

Points per win: 2
*Nottingham Forest deducted 2 points for fielding an ineligible player

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LEAGUE POSITIONS

Competitive Games:: 5
Competitive Goals:: 23
Goals per game:: 4.6
League Games:: 22
League Points:: 25 out of 44 (2 points per win)
Points Percentage:: 56.8%

GOALS
Goals scored, conceded and win and loss margins

Goal count:	1 goal	3 goals	4 goals	5+ goals
Scored	1 time	1 time		2 times
Conceded	1 time	1 time	1 time
Won By				2 times
Lost By			1 time

LEAGUE POSITION ANALYSIS
Analysis of the league positions
This table shows:
(a) how many days we spent in each of the league positions
(b) how we did when we played teams in each of the league positions.

Position days		Record against teams in each position
Forest Pos	Num Days	Opp Pos	P	W	D	L	F	A	Points	Results (Green=win; Blue=draw; Red=loss)
1	56	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
2	86	2	2	-	1	1	2	3	1	Stoke (1-2), Sunderland Albion (1-1)
3	54	3	1	-	1	-	0	0	1	Sunderland Albion (0-0)
4	14	4	2	-	1	1	2	5	1	Stoke (2-2), Grimsby Town (0-3)
5	14	5	3	2	-	1	10	8	4	Darwen (5-2), Birmingham St George's (3-6), Walsall Town Swifts (2-0)
6		6	1	1	-	-	5	2	2	Crewe Alexandra (5-2)
7		7	3	-	2	1	7	8	2	Newton Heath LYR (1-1), Darwen (4-4), Walsall Town Swifts (2-3)
8		8	4	3	1	-	23	3	7	Bootle (7-0), Newton Heath LYR (8-2), Grimsby Town (1-1), Crewe Alexandra (7-0)
9		9	1	1	-	-	4	0	2	Birmingham St George's (4-0)
10		10	1	-	-	1	2	4	0	Small Heath (2-4)
11		11	2	1	-	1	6	5	2	The Wednesday (2-0), Small Heath (4-5)
12		12	1	-	1	-	0	0	1	The Wednesday (0-0)

Not included: Week 1 game against Bootle (5-1) as all teams were unplaced at the time

ATTENDANCES (HOME)

Highest League Attendance:: -
Lowest League Attendance:: -
Average League Attendance:: -
Highest Cup Attendance:: 8,000 (Sunderland Albion)
Lowest Cup Attendance:: 8,000 (Sunderland Albion)

MISCELLANEOUS

Clean Sheets:: 2
Yellow Cards:: 0
Red Cards:: 0
Own goals (for):: 0 (scored by opponents for us)
Own goals (against):: 0 (scored by us for opponents)
Penalties scored:: 0
Penalties conceded:: 0
Penalties missed:: 0
Penalties saved:: 0

GAMES

Manager for all games: Harry Radford
Football Alliance

Week	Date	Opponent	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Pos	Scorers
1	Sat Sep 06, 1890	Bootle	A	5-1	Win	-	1	Rorke (?), Pike (?), Higgins (?, ?), ? (?)
2	Sat Sep 13, 1890	Darwen	H	5-2	Win	3,000	2	Higgins (?), Smith (?, ?), McCallum (?), Shaw (?)
3	Sat Sep 20, 1890	Newton Heath LYR	A	1-1	Draw	4,000	2	Shaw (?)
4	Sat Sep 27, 1890	Crewe Alexandra	H	5-2	Win	-	1	Higgins (?, ?), Pike (?), Smith (?), McCallum (?)
5	Fri Oct 03, 1890	Stoke	H	2-2	Draw	3,000	1	Lindley (?), Pike (?)
6	Sat Oct 11, 1890	Sunderland Albion	A	0-0	Draw	-	2
7	Sat Oct 18, 1890	Bootle	H	7-0	Win	3,000	1	Higgins (?), Pike (?), Smith (?), May (?, ?, ?, ?)
8	Sat Nov 01, 1890	The Wednesday	A	2-0	Win	10,000	1	Higgins (?, ?)
9	Sat Nov 08, 1890	Birmingham St George's	H	4-0	Win	4,000	1	Siddons (? OG), Higgins (?, ?), Pike (?)
10	Sat Nov 22, 1890	Newton Heath LYR	H	8-2	Win	2,000	1	Shaw (?, ?, ?), Pike (?, ?, ?), Higgins (?), McCallum (?)
11	Sat Nov 29, 1890	Stoke	A	1-2	Loss	3,000	2	? (?)
12	Sat Dec 13, 1890	Darwen	A	4-4	Draw	4,000	2	Higgins (?, ?, ?, ?)
13	Sat Dec 27, 1890	Grimsby Town	H	1-1	Draw	3,000	2	Higgins (?)
14	Sat Jan 24, 1891	Sunderland Albion	H	1-1	Draw	5,000	3	McCallum (?)
15	Mon Feb 02, 1891	Birmingham St George's	A	3-6	Loss	2,000	3	Russell (?), May (?), Rowan (?)
16	Sat Feb 21, 1891	Crewe Alexandra	A	7-0	Win	-	2	Higgins (?, ?, ?, ?), McCallum (?, ?), May (?)
17	Thu Feb 26, 1891	Small Heath	H	4-5	Loss	2,500	2	Pike (?, ?, ?), Duncan (?)
18	Sat Feb 28, 1891	Small Heath	A	2-4	Loss	5,000	2	Higgins (?), McCallum (?)
19	Sat Mar 14, 1891	Walsall Town Swifts	H	2-0	Win	3,000	2	? (? OG), Higgins (?)
20	Sat Mar 21, 1891	The Wednesday	H	0-0	Draw	-	4
21	Sat Apr 04, 1891	Walsall Town Swifts	A	2-3	Loss	3,000	5	McCallum (?), Pike (?)
22	Thu Apr 09, 1891	Grimsby Town	A	0-3	Loss	4,000	5

FA Cup

Date	Opponent	Round	Replay	Count	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Sat Jan 17, 1891	Clapton	1			A	14-0	Win	1,500	McCallum (?, ?), Smith (?, ?), Higgins (?, ?, ?, ?, ?), Lindley (?, ?, ?, ?), Shaw (?)
Sat Jan 31, 1891	Sunderland Albion	2			A	1-1	Draw	12,000	Smith (?)
Sat Feb 07, 1891	Sunderland Albion	2	Y	1	H	3-3	Draw	8,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?)
Wed Feb 11, 1891	Sunderland Albion	2	Y	2	N	5-0	Win	6,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?), Lindley (?), Shaw (?)
Sat Feb 14, 1891	Sunderland	Quarter			A	0-4	Loss	15,000

Friendly

Date	Opponent	Country	H/A	Score	Result	Att	Scorers
Mon Sep 01, 1890	Wolverhampton Wanderers	England	A	0-1	Loss	8,000
Wed Sep 03, 1890	Notts Olympic	England	H	4-0	Win	-	? (?, ?, ?, ?)
Mon Sep 15, 1890	Heart Of Midlothian	Scotland	A	0-1	Loss	-
Mon Sep 29, 1890	Sheffield United	England	A	2-1	Win	-	? (?, ?)
Thu Oct 02, 1890	Queen's Park	Scotland	H	4-2	Win	3,500	Smith (?, ?), Higgins (?), Pike (?)
Thu Oct 23, 1890	Aston Villa	England	H	3-0	Win	3,500	? (?, ?, ?)
Sat Oct 25, 1890	Clapton	England	A	4-0	Win	-	Pike (?), Higgins (?), May (?), Russell (10)
Thu Nov 13, 1890	Wolverhampton Wanderers	England	H	5-0	Win	-	? (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
Sat Nov 15, 1890	West Bromwich Albion	England	A	2-2	Draw	2,000	Higgins (?), ? (?)
Thu Nov 27, 1890	Bolton Wanderers	England	H	7-1	Win	-	Higgins (?, ?, ?), Pike (?), May (?, ?), Smith (?)
Sat Dec 06, 1890	Clyde	Scotland	A	5-2	Win	2,000	McCallum (?), Smith (?, ?), Russell (?), ? (?)
Thu Dec 18, 1890	Burnley	England	H	3-4	Loss	1,500	? (?, ?, ?)
Fri Dec 26, 1890	Notts	England	A	0-0	Draw	20,000
Thu Jan 01, 1891	Bolton Wanderers	England	A	0-3	Loss	6,000
Sat Jan 03, 1891	Heart Of Midlothian	Scotland	H	8-2	Win	3,000	Smith (?, ?, 69), Russell (?), Rowan (?), Shaw (?), Higgins (?, ?)
Sat Jan 10, 1891	Glasgow Rangers	Scotland	A	2-1	Win	1,500	Smith (?), Higgins (?)
Mon Mar 02, 1891	Sheffield United	England	A	4-1	Win	3,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?), Rowan (?)
Thu Mar 12, 1891	West Bromwich Albion	England	H	2-3	Loss	3,000	Higgins (?), Pike (?)
Mon Mar 16, 1891	Aston Villa	England	A	2-3	Loss	-	? (?, ?)
Fri Mar 27, 1891	Middlesbrough Ironopolis	England	A	2-2	Draw	2,000	Russell (?), ? (?)
Sat Mar 28, 1891	Newcastle East End	England	A	2-1	Win	3,000	? (?, ?)
Mon Mar 30, 1891	Chatham	England	A	2-0	Win	4,000	? (?, ?)
Tue Mar 31, 1891	Royal Arsenal	England	A	5-0	Win	7,000	McCallum (?, ?), May (?), Pike (?), Smith (?)
Thu Apr 02, 1891	Blackburn Rovers	England	H	4-0	Win	3,000	Pike (?, ?), Smith (?), McCallum (?)
Sat Apr 11, 1891	Glasgow Rangers	Scotland	H	3-0	Win	4,000	Russell (?, ?, ?)
Sat Apr 18, 1891	Notts	England	H	2-4	Loss	9,500	Smith (?), Shaw (?)
Mon Apr 20, 1891	Everton	England	A	1-1	Draw	-	? (?)
Mon Apr 27, 1891	Burnley	England	A	0-3	Loss	1,500

Date	Game Type	Opponent	Round	Replay Count	H/A	Score	Att	Scorers
Manager: Harry Radford
Mon Sep 01, 1890	Friendly	Wolverhampton Wanderers			A	0-1	8,000
Wed Sep 03, 1890	Friendly	Notts Olympic			H	4-0	-	? (?, ?, ?, ?)
Sat Sep 06, 1890	Football Alliance	Bootle			A	5-1	-	Rorke (?), Pike (?), Higgins (?, ?), ? (?)
Sat Sep 13, 1890	Football Alliance	Darwen			H	5-2	3,000	Higgins (?), Smith (?, ?), McCallum (?), Shaw (?)
Mon Sep 15, 1890	Friendly	Heart Of Midlothian			A	0-1	-
Sat Sep 20, 1890	Football Alliance	Newton Heath LYR			A	1-1	4,000	Shaw (?)
Sat Sep 27, 1890	Football Alliance	Crewe Alexandra			H	5-2	-	Higgins (?, ?), Pike (?), Smith (?), McCallum (?)
Mon Sep 29, 1890	Friendly	Sheffield United			A	2-1	-	? (?, ?)
Thu Oct 02, 1890	Friendly	Queen's Park			H	4-2	3,500	Smith (?, ?), Higgins (?), Pike (?)
Fri Oct 03, 1890	Football Alliance	Stoke			H	2-2	3,000	Lindley (?), Pike (?)
Sat Oct 11, 1890	Football Alliance	Sunderland Albion			A	0-0	-
Sat Oct 18, 1890	Football Alliance	Bootle			H	7-0	3,000	Higgins (?), Pike (?), Smith (?), May (?, ?, ?, ?)
Thu Oct 23, 1890	Friendly	Aston Villa			H	3-0	3,500	? (?, ?, ?)
Sat Oct 25, 1890	Friendly	Clapton			A	4-0	-	Pike (?), Higgins (?), May (?), Russell (10)
Sat Nov 01, 1890	Football Alliance	The Wednesday			A	2-0	10,000	Higgins (?, ?)
Sat Nov 08, 1890	Football Alliance	Birmingham St George's			H	4-0	4,000	Siddons (? OG), Higgins (?, ?), Pike (?)
Thu Nov 13, 1890	Friendly	Wolverhampton Wanderers			H	5-0	-	? (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)
Sat Nov 15, 1890	Friendly	West Bromwich Albion			A	2-2	2,000	Higgins (?), ? (?)
Sat Nov 22, 1890	Football Alliance	Newton Heath LYR			H	8-2	2,000	Shaw (?, ?, ?), Pike (?, ?, ?), Higgins (?), McCallum (?)
Thu Nov 27, 1890	Friendly	Bolton Wanderers			H	7-1	-	Higgins (?, ?, ?), Pike (?), May (?, ?), Smith (?)
Sat Nov 29, 1890	Football Alliance	Stoke			A	1-2	3,000	? (?)
Sat Dec 06, 1890	Friendly	Clyde			A	5-2	2,000	McCallum (?), Smith (?, ?), Russell (?), ? (?)
Sat Dec 13, 1890	Football Alliance	Darwen			A	4-4	4,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?, ?)
Thu Dec 18, 1890	Friendly	Burnley			H	3-4	1,500	? (?, ?, ?)
Fri Dec 26, 1890	Friendly	Notts			A	0-0	20,000
Sat Dec 27, 1890	Football Alliance	Grimsby Town			H	1-1	3,000	Higgins (?)
Thu Jan 01, 1891	Friendly	Bolton Wanderers			A	0-3	6,000
Sat Jan 03, 1891	Friendly	Heart Of Midlothian			H	8-2	3,000	Smith (?, ?, 69), Russell (?), Rowan (?), Shaw (?), Higgins (?, ?)
Sat Jan 10, 1891	Friendly	Glasgow Rangers			A	2-1	1,500	Smith (?), Higgins (?)
Sat Jan 17, 1891	FA Cup	Clapton	1		A	14-0	1,500	McCallum (?, ?), Smith (?, ?), Higgins (?, ?, ?, ?, ?), Lindley (?, ?, ?, ?), Shaw (?)
Sat Jan 24, 1891	Football Alliance	Sunderland Albion			H	1-1	5,000	McCallum (?)
Sat Jan 31, 1891	FA Cup	Sunderland Albion	2		A	1-1	12,000	Smith (?)
Mon Feb 02, 1891	Football Alliance	Birmingham St George's			A	3-6	2,000	Russell (?), May (?), Rowan (?)
Sat Feb 07, 1891	FA Cup	Sunderland Albion	2	1	H	3-3	8,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?)
Wed Feb 11, 1891	FA Cup	Sunderland Albion	2	2	N	5-0	6,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?), Lindley (?), Shaw (?)
Sat Feb 14, 1891	FA Cup	Sunderland	Quarter		A	0-4	15,000
Sat Feb 21, 1891	Football Alliance	Crewe Alexandra			A	7-0	-	Higgins (?, ?, ?, ?), McCallum (?, ?), May (?)
Thu Feb 26, 1891	Football Alliance	Small Heath			H	4-5	2,500	Pike (?, ?, ?), Duncan (?)
Sat Feb 28, 1891	Football Alliance	Small Heath			A	2-4	5,000	Higgins (?), McCallum (?)
Mon Mar 02, 1891	Friendly	Sheffield United			A	4-1	3,000	Higgins (?, ?, ?), Rowan (?)
Thu Mar 12, 1891	Friendly	West Bromwich Albion			H	2-3	3,000	Higgins (?), Pike (?)
Sat Mar 14, 1891	Football Alliance	Walsall Town Swifts			H	2-0	3,000	? (? OG), Higgins (?)
Mon Mar 16, 1891	Friendly	Aston Villa			A	2-3	-	? (?, ?)
Sat Mar 21, 1891	Football Alliance	The Wednesday			H	0-0	-
Fri Mar 27, 1891	Friendly	Middlesbrough Ironopolis			A	2-2	2,000	Russell (?), ? (?)
Sat Mar 28, 1891	Friendly	Newcastle East End			A	2-1	3,000	? (?, ?)
Mon Mar 30, 1891	Friendly	Chatham			A	2-0	4,000	? (?, ?)
Tue Mar 31, 1891	Friendly	Royal Arsenal			A	5-0	7,000	McCallum (?, ?), May (?), Pike (?), Smith (?)
Thu Apr 02, 1891	Friendly	Blackburn Rovers			H	4-0	3,000	Pike (?, ?), Smith (?), McCallum (?)
Sat Apr 04, 1891	Football Alliance	Walsall Town Swifts			A	2-3	3,000	McCallum (?), Pike (?)
Thu Apr 09, 1891	Football Alliance	Grimsby Town			A	0-3	4,000
Sat Apr 11, 1891	Friendly	Glasgow Rangers			H	3-0	4,000	Russell (?, ?, ?)
Sat Apr 18, 1891	Friendly	Notts			H	2-4	9,500	Smith (?), Shaw (?)
Mon Apr 20, 1891	Friendly	Everton			A	1-1	-	? (?)
Mon Apr 27, 1891	Friendly	Burnley			A	0-3	1,500

TRANSFERS
Transfers before, during and immediately after the season.

In (15) - £0				Out (9) - £0
Date	Player	Details	Fee	Date	Player	Details	Fee
	Bill Brown	Bought			Frank Guttridge	Sold
	David Russell	Bought			John Duncan	Sold
	Fred Thompson	Bought			Joseph Southall	Sold
	John Duncan	Bought			Matthew Rorke	Sold
	Neil McCallum	Bought			Sandy Rowan	Sold
	Percy Oscroft	Bought			T Radford	Sold
	Robertson (1891-92)	Bought			Teddy May	Sold
	Teddy May	Bought			Walter Cox	Retired
April 1890	Tom Widdowson	Bought		Nov 02, 1891	Jack Earp	Sold
	William 'Tich' Smith	Bought
1890	Adam Scott	Bought
June 1890	Matthew Rorke	Bought
June 1890	Sandy Rowan	Bought
Aug 01, 1890	Alex Higgins	Bought
Sep 13, 1890	Walter Cox	Bought

SQUAD

				Season Record (Competitive Games only)
Pos	Num	Player	Country	P	W	D	L	Goals	Yellows	Reds	Went Off	Came On	Unused Sub	Notes
Goalkeepers
GK		Bill Brown		2	1	1
GK		Jack Holland		2	1		1
GK		Tom Widdowson	England	1		1
GK		Walter Cox	Scotland
Defenders
D		Adam Scott	Scotland	5	2	2	1
D		Frank Guttridge	England
D		Harry Pike	England
D		Jack Earp		5	2	2	1
D		Joseph Southall
D		Robertson (1891-92)
Midfielders
M		Albert Smith	England	5	2	2	1
M		David Russell	Scotland	4	2	2
M		Fred Thompson
M		John Bullock	Wales
M		Matthew Rorke
M		Neil McCallum	Scotland	5	2	2	1	2
M		Sandy Rowan	Scotland
M		Tommy Jeacock		3	1	1	1
M		William 'Tich' Smith	England	5	2	2	1	3
Forwards
F		Alex Higgins	Scotland	5	2	2	1	11
F		Arthur Shaw	England	5	2	2	1	2
F		Horace Pike	England
F		John Duncan
F		Teddy May	England	3	1	1	1
F		Tinsley Lindley	England	5	2	2	1	5
F		Percy Oscroft	England

		Edward Anderson	Scotland
		G Shelton (1890)
		T Radford

GOALSCORERS

Competitive goals only

Goals (Pens)	Player	Games
11	Alex Higgins	5
5	Tinsley Lindley	5
3	William 'Tich' Smith	5
2	Arthur Shaw	5
2	Neil McCallum	5

LEAGUE DOUBLES (FOR)
Home and away victories for the season

	Game 1				Game 2
Opponent	Date	H/A	Score		Date	H/A	Score

LEAGUE DOUBLES (AGAINST)
Home and away losses for the season

	Game 1				Game 2
Opponent	Date	H/A	Score		Date	H/A	Score