Transferred Players Score In Debuts

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32253, 23 March 1970, Page 11

Transferred Players Score In Debuts

■ <N.Z p.A.-Reuter—Copyright) LONDON. I The England star. M. Peters, 'and the former international, J. Greaves, who swapped clubs fast week in a record deal valued at £200,000. both scored goals in debuts for their new clubs on Saturday. Peters, who became Britain’s ; costliest footballer when he : ■joined Tottenham Hotspur for I £lOO,OOO plus Greaves, netted;; after 13 minutes. But Totten-; ham still lost, 1-2, at home to: Coventrj-. Greaves brought better for-, tune to his new club. West;: Ham United, netting twice In his side’s 5-1 win at Manchester City. At the top of the English first i division table, Everton main- ’ rained its three-point lead over Leeds United, both clubs win- ’ ning away from. home. Greaves’s goals maintained his record of scoring in every I debut he has'made. He netted : tn his first appearances for (Chelsea, A.C. Milan, Tottenham and England. , Celtic virtually clinched the Scottish first division title for 1 the fifth successive year when < iit beat Ayr United, 3-0. to go • nine points clear of Rangers with only five matches left. J Rangers slipped to a shock. 1-2. 1 defeat at Dundee. < ENGLISH LEAGUE < Division One.—Burnley 2, West ) Bromwich 1; Chelsea 2, Man-j; Chester United 1; Derby 3. Crys- j tai Palace 1: Ipswich 2. Sunder- , land 0; Liverpool 0. Everton 2. i Manchester City 1, West Ham 5: Newcastle 3. Stoke 1: Sheffield Wednesday 2, Nottingham,( 1: Southampton 0, Arsenal 2; I Tottenham 1. Coventry 2: Wolverhampton 1. Leeds 2. . Division Two.—Aston Villa 1,1 Blackburn 1; Bolton 1 Charlton it jl; Bristol City 1, Swindon 3;|(

Carlisle 1, Blackpool 2: Huddersfield 2. Birmingham 0: Leicester 2. Sheffield United 1: Middlesbrough 0, Norwich 0;, Millwall 2, Hull 1: Oxford 0. Queen’s Park Rangers 0: Preston 1, Portsmouth 1; Watford 2. Cardiff 1. Division Three.—Barrow 1. : Bournemouth 1: Bradford City; 3. Doncaster 0; Brighton 1. Southport 0; Gillingham 1. Bury 0; Mansfield 2, Torquay 0: Orient; 13. Stockport 0; Plymouth 4, ;Shrewsbury 2; Reading 0. Ful- : ham 4: Rochdale 1, Barnslev 1; ; Rotherham 1. Halifax 1; Tran- ; mere 3. Luton 2: Walsall 2.1 ! Bristol Rovers 1. Division Four.—Brentford 0. Aidershot 0: Chester 2, Peterborough 3; Chesterfield 2. Col-; Chester 0: Crewe 0. Bradford 0: Exeter 1. Northhampton 0: Grimsby 0. York 0; Lincoln 0. Wrexham 0; Newport 0, Workington 1; Notts County 1, Hartlepools 0: Port Vale 4, Darlington 0; Southend 1. Oldham 0; Swan-1 sea 2, Scunthorpe 1. SCOTTISH LEAGUE Division One.—Aberdeen 2. j Dunfermline 0; Airdrteonians 1.1 Morton 1; Celtic 3, Ayr 0: Dun-; dee 2, Rangers 1; Hibernian 4. i St Johnstone 1; Kilmarnock 2. Clyde 1; Partick 1, Dundee United 2; Raith 0, Hearts 3: St Mirren 2, Motherwell 3. Division Two.—Cowdenbeath 0. Alloa 2: Dumbarton 2, Albion 0: East Stirling 2. Berwick 0: Hamilton 0, Cydebank 2; Montrose 2. Queen of the South 1; Sten-housemuir 2. Forfar 1: Stirling Albion 3, East Fife 1; Stran-1 raer 6, Brechin City 1. ENGLISH AMATEUR CUP Semi-final Replay: St Albans' jCity 0, Dagenham 1. IRISH LEAGUE Ards 2. Linfield 3: Coleraine i 11. Cliftonville 0: Crusaders 0, Derry 3: Distillery 2. Portadown id: Glenavon 3, Ballymena 0; , IGlentoran 2, Bangor 0. I