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Govan

Club	Season	Football League			FA Cup		Inter-Cities Fairs Cup		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Plymouth Argyle	1946–47[1]	Second	002	00	00	0			002	000
	1947–48[1]	Second	002	00	00	0			002	000
	1948–49[1]	Second	002	00	00	0			002	000
	1949–50[1]	Second	001	00	00	0			001	000
	1950–51[1]	Third South	035	09	03	1			038	010
	1951–52[1]	Third South	035	09	01	0			036	009
	1952–53[1]	Second	033	10	03	2			036	012
	Total		110	28	07	3			117	031
Birmingham City	1953–54[2]	Second	037	08	02	0			039	008
	1954–55[3]	Second	037	15	04	1			041	016
	1955–56[4]	First	036	04	03	0	1	0	039	005
	1956–57[5]	First	035	24	07	4	2	2	044	030
	1957–58[6]	First	020	02	00	0	1	0	021	002
	Total		165	53	16	5	4	2	185	060
Portsmouth	1957–58[7]	First	009	02	02	0			011	002
	1958–59[7]	First	002	00	00	0			002	000
	Total		011	02	02	0			013	002
Plymouth Argyle	1958–59[1]	Third	020	06	01	0			021	006
	1959–60[1]	Second	012	02	00	0			012	002
	Total		032	08	01	0			033	008
Career total			318	91	26	8	4	2	348	101

Hall

Club	Season	Football League			FA Cup		Inter-Cities Fairs Cup		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Birmingham City	1950–51[8]	Second	001	00	00	0			001	000
	1951–52[9]	Second	006	00	00	0			006	000
	1952–53[10]	Second	016	00	07	0			023	000
	1953–54[11]	Second	032	01	02	0			034	001
	1954–55[12]	Second	032	00	04	0			036	000
	1955–56[13]	First	038	00	06	0	0	0	044	000
	1956–57[14]	First	036	00	07	0	1	0	044	000
	1957–58[15]	First	037	00	01	0	2	0	040	000
	1958–59[16]	First	029	00	06	0	2	0	037	000
	Total		227	1	33	0	5	0	265	001

Buildup (players)

• Bham finally safe from relegation on ???
• Each team to have special badges on kit, Bham with city's coat of arms, Albion with arms of the borough
• Bradford's injury (put Bradford's importance to team into context, top scorer every year since 1921/2 etc), Cringan injury, Briggs flu
• Preparation (most went to a "sumptuous" country hotel at Bushey on Tuesday aft, Bradford Cringan and Briggs followed on the Thursday, Liddell not till the Friday evening after work)
• Cenotaph on the Thursday, then theatre

Buildup (general)

• Ticket allocation and prices (Standing, 3s and 5s; seats, 7s 6d, 10s 6d, 15s, and 21s)
• Transport ("nearly 50" special trains ran from Bham; appeal for ppl to buy train tickets in advance)
• Central League game at Stans on Sat k/o brought fwd to 2.15, after which the second half of the Cup Final to be broadcast in the ground
• Police called to four separate domestics (!) on Fri night when the man discovered his wife had pawned his best suit expecting to redeem it for church on Sunday without considering he might want it for the cup final (serves him right for spending her housekeeping on a cup final ticket and the train fare to London)
• People hanging round St Andrews right up to Saturday morning on the offchance of more tickets materialising

Buildup (Wembley)

• After the game they'd have to clear up and replace equipment for the dog meeting on the same night (!)
• Radio broadcast to begin at 2.30

Post-match (players)

• Blues: dinner @ Russell Hotel in London with wives, club officials, civic representatives, survivors of 1886 semi-final etc; coach trip to Brighton on the Sunday; return to Bham on Monday aft, met by Lord Mayor and cheering crowds from station platform up to Vic Square
• Albion players went to Madame Tussaud's to see the waxworks of both captains, and then some took wives shopping, before train home
• Bham Mail editorial on Monday praising sportsmanship of both crowd and players, particularly when the Bham goal was wrongly disallowed for offside: "There was no swarming round the official in the clamorous and excited manner so often seen in League games, but just a quiet and philosophic acceptance of the ruling and the position."

Post-match (general)

• Trains back ran every quarter hour til 5am Sunday, buses running all night to get people home, no trouble: "The sportsmanship of the people is highly commended. In a great local clash, in which one set of supporters had necessarily to face disappointment, there appeared to be no frayed tempers and little evidence of over-indulgence."

A few days before the match, Birmingham were hit by news of the death of club vice-president Bill Camkin, who as managing director during the Second World War had kept the club going while air raids and fire wrecked the ground and destroyed the club's records.^[18]