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The Blitz was still taking place when the 1941 Football League War Cup Final took place at Wembley on 31 May. Preston North End and Arsenal drew 1–1 in front of a 60,000 crowd. Preston won the replay at Blackburn, 2–1. Robert Beattie got both of Preston's goals. [22] Wolves won the Football League War Cup in 1942, beating Sunderland 4–1. [23]
Winner North Regional League: Preston North End [1] South Regional League: Crystal Palace [1] Football League War Cup: Preston North End [2] London War Cup: Reading [2] Lancashire War Cup: Manchester United [3]
In the 1941–42 season, 16 clubs from London and South East England did not participate owing to a dispute with the Football League over the formation of a separate London League. [1] Instead they competed in the London War Cup. [2] The winners of the London War Cup faced the winners of the Football League War Cup in a play-off. [3]
The wartime crowd included wounded members of the BEF recently evacuated from Dunkirk. West Ham won the tie 1–0; the only goal coming from Sam Small in the 34th minute when he followed up a parried shot from George Foreman .
1945–46 was the first peacetime football season since the 1939–40 season was cut short due to World War II.On 7 May (as the war was ending), it was announced that the FA Cup would be resumed, and that the 44 clubs in the top two divisions of the 1938–39 season would play in the Football League North and Football League South [1] without promotion and relegation from the previous ...
(Reuters) - Thirteen players from Ukraine's national team produced a video on Thursday ahead of their appearance at Euro 2024, presenting images of wartime destruction and hardship in their home ...
The Scottish Football League and Scottish Cup were suspended in 1939, with unofficial regional competitions replacing them. These were dominated by Rangers, who won the 1939–40 Scottish War Emergency League and all of the six Southern League tournaments played, plus four of six Southern League Cups, the one-off Scottish War Emergency Cup in 1940, one of five Summer Cups and the one-off ...
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