Snow And Ice Again Disrupts Soccer
(N.Z.P.A .Reuter—Copyright) il LONDON. I For the third successive week. , snow and ice disrupted the pro- 1 fessional soccer programme in j Britaii. at the week-end and 38matches were postponed in| J England and Scotland. A second half goal by the 1 England forward. R. Hunte. 1 earned Liverpool a 1-1 draw at 1 West Ham and kept alive its diminishing hopes of winning the English first division champ- ' ionship. Liverpool is now two points behind Leeds United, ; which has a game in hand. The Pools Promoters’ Associa- • tlon again called on its panel of experts to assess the results ’ of postponed games to give punters a chance of winning 1 prizes. Results of games played:— ( SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division One.—Kilmarnock 1. : Hearts 0: Morton 0, Dunfermline 2. Division Two.—Dumbarton 0. Queen of the South 2; Montrose 3. East Fife 1: Stirling Albion 1. Alloa 1; Stranraer 1. Clydebank 1. ENGLISH LEAGUE Division One.—Chelsea 5. Sunderland 1; Tottenham 1, Wolverhapton 1; West Ham 1, Liverpool 1. Division Two—Carlisle 1. Millwall 0: Charlton 1, Aston Villa 1: Crystal Palace 2. Hull 0; Middlesbrough 2. Blackpool 1. Portsmouth 2. Bolton 2; Preston 2. Oxford 1. Division Three.—Hartlepools 2. Brighton 5: Northampton l e Oldham 1: Plymouth 1. Tranmere 0; Swindon 1, Rotherham 0; Walsall o, Torquay 1; Watford 2. Mansfield 0. Division Four.—Brentford 4. Grimbsy 2; Chester 4, Newport 0; Colchester 1. Notts County 1. IRISH CITY CUP Ballymena 0. Distillery 0 (abandoned after 35 minutes); Cllftonvtlle 0. Coleraine 2; Derry 3. Crusaders 1; Glenavon 3. Ards 6; Linfield 2. Glentoran 0. Postponed: Bangor v. Portadown. Results assessed by the pools panel were: EHGLISH LEAGUE Division One.—Burnley v. Manchester City, home win; Coventry v. Queen’s Park Rangers. home win; Everton v. Arsenal, home win; Manchester | v. Leicester, home win; Newcastle v. Stoke, home win; Nottingham v. Southampton, away win; Sheffield Wednesday v. Leeds, home win; West Bromwich v. Ipswich, away win. Division Two.—Birmingham v. Sheffield United, home win; Bury v. Bristol City, draw; Huddersfield v. Blackburn, home win; Norwich v. Derby, draw. Division Three.—Bournemouth v. Orient, home win; Bristol Rovers v. Luton, home win; Crevye v. Gillingham, home win;
(Beading v. Barrow, home win I Division Four.—Bradford Citv v. Darlington, draw; Chesterfield |v. Lincoln, home win, Doncasiter v. Workington, away win. I Exeter v. Wrexham, away win, 'Peterborough v. Aidershot, home win; Port Vale v. Bradford, home win; Rochdale v. Halifax draw; York v. Swansea, home win. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division One.—Airdrieonians v. Partick, away win. Clyde v. Dundee United, draw. Dundee v Celtic, away win; Hibernian *. St Mirren, home win; Raith v Aberdeen, away win; Bangers v. Arbroath, home win; St Johnstone v. Falkirk, draw. Division Two.—Cowdenbeath v. Brenchin, home win; Forfar v. Ayr, away win. The following were not assessed. Shrewsbury v. Southport, Stockport v. Barnsley, East Stirling v. Albion. Hamilton v. BerwicK. Motherwell v. Stenhousemuir.
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Press, Volume CIX, Issue 31921, 24 February 1969, Page 15
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