Match detail: Leeds City v Chelsea - 17/11/1906

Match detail: Leeds City v Chelsea

Match Date: Saturday, 17th Nov 1906 at 14:45
Competition: League - Football League Division 2
Opponent: Leeds City
Venue: Elland Road
Attendance: 8,000
Half Time: 0 - 1
Result: Won 0 - 1
Referee: Albert E Farrant (Bristol)

Team: Robert Bush George Henderson George Hilsdon Jack Kirwan Bob McRoberts (C) Tommy Miller Martin Moran James Robertson Joseph Walton Bob Whiting (GK) Jimmy Windridge

Chelsea Goal Scorers: James Robertson (4) Leeds City Goal Scorers: None

Cheshire/Hockings and Glanvill/Dutton give Chelsea's scorer as James Robertson, this site HAD Hilsdon. Every single newspaper report out there gives the scorer as Hilsdon. HOWEVER - in the Chelsea programme of November 24th 1906 it quite clearly states that all the newspapers are wrong and that James Robertson got the goal. They would not have gone to the trouble of putting that information in the programme if it were not true and so I take that as the authoritative source. It is now changed to James Robertson.