Match detail: Chelsea v Bury - 21/12/1907

Match detail: Chelsea v Bury

Match Date: Saturday, 21st Dec 1907 at 14:30
Competition: League - Football League Division 1
Opponent: Bury
Venue: Stamford Bridge
Attendance: 35,000
Half Time: 2 - 1
Result: Lost 3 - 4
Referee: Fred Heath (Birmingham)

Team: Ted Birnie Billy Brawn Billy Bridgeman Jack Cameron George Henderson George Hilsdon Tommy Miller Fred Rouse Jimmy Stark Ben Whitehouse Bob Whiting (GK)

Chelsea Goal Scorers: George Hilsdon (15) George Hilsdon (25) George Hilsdon (67) Bury Goal Scorers: T Kay (44) Bob Currie (80) P Gildea (82) T Kay (89)

Cheshire/Hockings has Hilsdon 2, Lindsay OG. Glanvill/Dutton and this site have Hilsdon 3. All newspaper reports say that the first goal was an own goal by the Bury defender Lindsay. It was presumably subsequently given to Hilsdon. Was the ball going in anyhow? Did that count for anything in 1907? We will never know but in the absence of other information we can probably only give this goal to Hilsdon.