Wrexham 1
Leicester City 2
FA Cup (3rd Round)


Wrexham
1 - 2
Leicester City 

FA Cup
(3rd Round)
Saturday, January 9th, 1960
Racecourse Ground
Attendance: 22,560
3:00pm kick-off

Goalscorers
Don Weston (60)
Albert Cheesebrough (31)
Ken Leek (88)

Team Managers
Cliff Lloyd
Matt Gilles

Starting Eleven
1. Roly Ugolini
2. Aly McGowan
3. Ewan Fenton
4. Harvey Jones
5. Alan Fox
6. George Evans
7. Gren Jones
8. Arfon Griffiths
9. Don Weston
10. Ron Hewitt
11. Stan Bennion
Gordon Banks .1
Len Chalmers .2
Willie Cunningham .3
Ian White .4
Tony Knapp .5
Colin Appleton .6
Tommy McDonald .7
Albert Cheesebrough .8
Ken Leek .9
Jimmy Walsh .10
Gordon Wills .11

Bench
None. None.

Substitutions
None. None.

Cautions
None. None.

Red Cards
None. None.

Match Officials

F.H. Gerrard (Preston) (Referee)
N.T. Rutter (Bellbroughton, Worcs) & W.S Williams (Hereford) (Assistants)


Match Report


This match has no report.



Squad Statistics (as at January 9th, 1960)


1959-60 All Time
League Cups All
Roly Ugolini (GK) 11 - 2 - 86 -
Alan Fox 23 - 3 - 192 -
Aly McGowan 2613 - 3062
George Evans 2033 - 785
Ewan Fenton 17 - 1 - 18 -
Arfon Griffiths 512 - 71
Harvey Jones 4 - 2 - 6 -
Stan Bennion 16231193
Ron Hewitt 22832261106
Gren Jones 1843 - 21034
Don Weston 2513334830







League Table & Results (as at January 9th, 1960)


Other Wrexham matches played on January 9th, 1960:
Cheshire County League
Hyde United3-0Wrexham Reserves
Welsh League (North)
Bethesda Ath.2-1Wrexham Colts

Results of league matches played since last match
9th January 1960
Accrington S.2-1Barnsley
Chesterfield1-1Colchester Utd
Halifax Town0-1Norwich City
Swindon Town0-0Brentford


Division Three 1959-60
P W D L Avg Pts
1. Bury 27 17 3 7 1.864 37
2. Southampton 26 15 6 5 1.571 36
3. Coventry City 26 14 5 7 1.486 33
4. Norwich City 27 14 5 8 1.395 33
5. AFC Bournemouth 27 13 6 8 1.143 32
6. Shrewsbury Town 26 12 7 7 1.432 31
7. Grimsby Town 27 10 10 7 1.227 30
8. Colchester United 28 12 6 10 1.065 30
9. Brentford 27 11 5 11 1.119 27
10. Newport County 25 12 3 10 1.047 27
11. Port Vale 26 12 3 11 1.043 27
12. Barnsley 28 10 7 11 0.953 27
13. Swindon Town 28 11 5 12 0.848 27
14. Queens Park Rangers 26 10 6 10 1.273 26
15. Bradford City 26 9 8 9 1.000 26
16. Halifax Town 27 10 6 11 0.739 26
17. York City 27 8 9 10 0.841 25
18. Tranmere Rovers 27 8 7 12 0.979 23
19. Southend United 26 9 3 14 0.833 21
20. Chesterfield 26 9 3 14 0.732 21
21. Reading 26 7 6 13 0.962 20
22. Accrington Stanley 28 8 4 16 0.567 20
23. WREXHAM 26 7 3 16 0.636 17
24. Mansfield Town 25 6 4 15 0.643 16