Match programme: York City v Hull City (12 March 1966)

About this match programme

By Richard Snowball

York City's first season back in Division Three turned out to be a disaster, finishing bottom of the League on a dismal 27 points and conceding 106 goals.

This programme features the match played on March 12, 1966 against Hull City, who went on to win the League and gain promotion to Division Two.

York lost the game by 2-1 in front of a crowd of 19,420 which was one of the largest for a league match, the highest being 21,010 in 1949 when Hull City were again the opponents. This Hull match was in the middle of a run of ten games with a win, only picking up two points in the process.

Earlier in the season in September, 1965, York went to Hull and pulled off a surprise victory by 4-1 in front of 20,554 spectactors with Paul Aimson scoring the "perfect hat-trick" (one with his right foot, one with his left and a header).

York had had a reasonable start to the season winning four of their opening nine matches but could not maintain this.

Paul Aimson, who York had signed at the beginning of previous season from Manchester City, was transferred to Bury for ÂŁ10,000 after scoring 51 goals in 84 games. However he returned to York in 1969 to continue his goal scoring feats for the next four seasons.

The last remaining members of the 1954-55 F.A. Cup semi-final side, Tommy Forgan and Norman Wilkinson, both played their last games for the club and left at the end of the season.

This was the first season in the Football League of substitutes when one was allowed, and York full back Tommy Heron had the dubious honour of being York's first player taken off a pitch when he was replaced by John Pearson on August 27, 1965 against Grimsby Town.

Acknowledgement

This facsimile of the match programme was created by the publisher of There’s Only One Arthur Bottom, the daily email newsletter for fans of York City FC, and TOOAB contributors Richard Snowball, Terry Espiner and Paul Bowser.

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