On this day - 5 October

Division One Stamford Bridge

Sunderland 0 (0)
Chelsea 2 (1) Turnbull Whittingham

Sunderland: Butler, Troughear, Milton, Low, Thomson, Cringan, Mordue, Buchan, Hall, Holley, Martin

Attendance: 30,000

Position after match: 19th

This was the seventh game of the season, and our record was drawn two, lost five; however we won the League with a record number of points.

Joe Butler made his debut in this game.

Friendly Upton Park

Sunderland 0
West Ham 2

Sunderland: Cowan, Stelling, Hudgell, Anderson, Aitken, Wright A, Kemp, Shackleton, Wright T, Watson, Elliott

Attendance: 20,017

Two days after a League game at Stamford Bridge, we played a Monday night floodlit friendly in East London. This match was billed as the official opening of West Ham’s floodlights, though they had actually first been switched on six months earlier for a friendly match against Spurs.

Division Two Selhurst Park

Sunderland 1 (0) Gates 58
Charlton Athletic 2 (1) Reid pen 30 Stuart 82

Sunderland: Bolder, Burley, Kennedy, Daniel, Bennett, Elliott, Gray, Venison, Swindlehurst (Hodgson), Gates, Walker

Attendance: 5,552

Position after match: 20th

Charlton’s first game away from The Valley, and there seemed to be more of us and a motley band of programme collectors than there were ’Latics supporters.

Didn’t stop us losing, of course, (well, it was Selhurst Park) and this made it eight League defeats on the trot in London.