SOCCER.
CHARLTON ATHLETIC LEADS. PROMOTED TEAM'S FEAT. DERBY AND BRENTFORD TIE WITH LAST YEAR'S WINNER. Positions in the English first division Soccer championship after last Saturday's contests :—• Cli. P. W. L. D. l'ts. Charlton (*) 1!> S -1 7 23 Sunderland (1) 18 10 li 2 22 Derby (2) 1!J !) 6 4 22 Brentford (5) 3 9 9 (5 4 22 Arsenal (0) IS 8 5 .1 21 Manchester City ('J J .19 7 5 7 21 Portsmouth 110) 19 8 0 5 21 Middlesbrough (14) ..18 9 0 ;■! 21 Stoke City (4) in G 5 S 20 Huddersfield (3) ...... 19 li 0 7 19 Chelsea (8) 1!) 7 7 5 19 Grimsby (17) 19 S 8 » 19 Preston (7) IS 7 7 4 18 Everton (10) IS 8 S 2 IS Liverpool (19) 19 0 7 0 % 18 Birmingham (12) ... . 19 5 5 7 17 Bolton (13) IS 5 0 7 17 Sheffield W. (20) IS 4 (5 8 10 Leeds (11) IS 7 10 1 15 Wolverhampton (15) ..IS 0 9 3 15 West Bromwieli (IS) .17 5 10 2 12 Manchester U. (*) .... IS 3 11 4 30 The figures in parentheses represent the place occupied on the championship table at the end of the 1935 season. The teams marked with an asterisk are those promoted from the second division, Manchester Lulled having won with 50 points. Charlton Athletic being second with 55. Aston Villa anil Blackburn Itovers, the two bottom first division teams, were relegated, and are well down this year's second division championship table.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 297, 15 December 1936, Page 17
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