Wonder what happened in the War Time League ... Attendances restricted ? What happened if there was an Air Raid ? Were games a target for the Germans etc.
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Throw in another one - player welfare. Due to the fixture congestion, there were clubs playing several games in short order. Bradford N for example played 3 in 4 days the week before the Championship final 1st leg. Sat, Mon & Tues with the final the following Sat.
some games were interuppted by air raids and at least one in the 39-40 series was abandoned due to an air raid - Hull v Batley on 21 Oct - but the result stood as 65 min had been played. Also attendances were limted to 8,000 or 15,000 if the ground capacity was >60,000
I guess there were large communal shelters in the vicinity. The 39-40 series had all sorts of incidents; a threatened player's strike early on due to payments being reduced. A winter wipe out that saw no games played in Yorkshire between 26 Dec and 24 Feb, and none in Lancs mid-Jan to end of Feb.
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Thank you !
Wonder what happened when there was a raid on ... Did they just let folks out ... Were they let back in afterwards ?
Where did folks shelter ?
It must have been a fascinating period
I know about guest players too ...