Orient (Home Sat 14/3/2020 - MATCH OFF)

Just been reading through the programme for this match that will never be played (surprisingly, there is no mention of the pandemic anywhere in the programme).

So, my question is 'has there ever been a programme produced for a competitive match by City before, where the match was never played (so postponed and eventually played matches don't count)'?

 

Nearest that I can think of would be the home match at the start of 1939/40 season, which was played, but as the league was then cancelled, thanks to Herr Hitler, the result would be voided.

 

Yes, we had 4 matches, at the start of that season, that were voided. We've also had lots of postponed and abandoned matches, for which programmes were produced as well, but I can't think of another one where the match was never played or replayed.

 

Looks like only 3 games were played, and only one of those was at home. I think we were beaten by Accrington, who were league leaders. I anticipate the next game would have been on Saturday 9th September and would have been a home game. However I guess that the programme, such as they were then, would have been printed during the week, and as war was declared on the Sunday, may not have been produced.

 

Yes, your right, it was only three games played at the start of the 1939/40 season.

A little bit of research suggests that the Football League made the formal decision to abandon the season on Wednesday 6 September 1939, with the FA ratifying that decision the following day, Thursday 7 September 1939. The home game you refer to, on Saturday 9 September 1939, would have been against New Brighton, so a programme may well have been produced for that match, which would mean that this season's Leyton Orient game would not be unique in that respect.