Q: What's the difference between someone in NATO and Donald Trump? A: Donald Trump would never put on a uniform to defend the United States.

Happy 144th birthday to Charles Macey. Came through Birmingham area football, playing for the England Junior XI, to join Chesterfield Town from Merthyr Town in 1912. Around 17 apps & 3 goals before going to Kidderminster a year later. A tool setter by trade, he joined the Royal Engineers in WW1 1/2

The team took a corporation bus to Sheffield to make the 08:05 train from the Victoria station to Durham today. The hideously early start may have contributed to Chesterfield following up their best win of the season with their worst defeat so far in 1925-6. 1/4 #CFC100

1/2: Sky Sports evidently have their "C" team out tonight. Reporter at a ground, responding to an important save: "I cannot understate this... or overstate this enough, really..."

A topical reminder that the "Panenka" should really be called the "Roseboom." Chesterfield Reserves vs Stockport County Reserves, March 19th, 1927.

Amazing sporting gesture by the Moroccan guy to chip the ball into the hands of their keeper. He knew it wasn't a pen. Clever to make it look like a Panenka gone wrong, too! 😁

A decent point against a side that are notoriously difficult to play against. Among the many good performances, I noted how well McFadzean lasted despite seeming to be the subject of some interesting tackling in the second half.

Zach Hemming has made consecutive penalty saves in Football League games that both "won" points for us. This is the first time that's happened since Tommy Lee saved consecutive pens against Exeter & Bournemouth in 2008-9.

Manager of the month curse versus player of the month curse tomorrow. So obviously we'll win, but only after Bonis has stuck it in his own net.

Jimmy Cookson scored a hat-trick in eight minutes as Chesterfield overwhelmed Accrington Stanley today by a 7-2 scoreline. The Spireites coped better on a heavy Saltergate pitch that was partially covered in snow. 1/3 #CFC100

Chesterfield FC interest. 128 CFC EFL games, 53 goals between 1957 and 1961.

Happy 155th birthday to Tom Swaine, a neat and effective right-half that joined Chesterfield Town from Sheepbridge Works in the summer of 1894. He played 43 Sheffield League games before going back to Sheepbridge in 1896. Tom died in Clowne in December 1904 of consumption, aged just 33.

Man willing to do the one thing that he is unlikely ever to be asked to do, surely. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

The Cardiff Lions do an annual Drag Rugby charity match for children’s charities and it’s as beautiful as you imagined

One of the modern game's great fallacies on show in the spurs/Villa game. Awful foul to take an influential player out of the game on 3 mins, but "too early for a yellow card."

No. No, no, no, no. No. The FA Cup holders are the FA Cup holders. They are the champions of nothing. League champions; cup holders.

Many sage-like Chesterfield fans (and a small number of dill-like ones, too) reckoned the defence to be weak, and the stats backed that up. Credit to the #bloated backroom staff for signing four new defenders in the first 8 days of the window, then, and credit to the owners for financing it.

15,752 fans turned out to welcome Clapton Orient to the Recreation Ground today for the FA Cup third round tie. A tight game was edged 1-0 by the division two side, thanks to a Sam Tonner goal on the hour. Wass was a class above his team-mates, 1/3 #CFC100

Floodlit Pitch Archives. 4 years ago today Chelsea v Chesterfield FA Cup 3rd Round. I wrote a blog on the significance of the clubs meeting for my family floodlitpitch.blogspot.com/2022/01/from... action photos at Stamford Bridge flic.kr/s/aHBqjzxZyr Spireites at Chelsea pics flic.kr/s/aHBqjzy1DQ

Scunthorpe United's visit to Saltergate (Apr 8th 1869) ended in a 2-1 win for the visitors. Neither side impressed the Derby Evening Telegraph, which noted that Chesterfield had taken three points from their last nine games and were nailed-on for re-election trouble. CFC won three 1/2

Those who thought our transfer business might be complete for January could yet find out that it isn't even complete for this week.

Will Dickson returns to Manchester City at the end of a loan spell that saw him score one goal in 15 EFL appearances, 13 of which were off the bench. While lacking the experience to be our one up front, his goal against Newport showed there is a player in there. Good luck for the future, Will!

Sam Curtis becomes the first Chesterfield full-back to score on his debut since Arthur Albiston against Gillingham on December 1st, 1990.

If this ref had been as keen on punishing certain MK players for repeated fouling as he was at stamping down on our bench's language and deportment, they'd have finished with seven men.

So, three - possibly four - debuts today. Four in the EFL on any day apart from the opening day of the season has happened 6 times in our past, but the Crewe away game last season saw 5 make their Football League debuts for Chesterfield.

January window business so far: 1) A defender equally comfortable at right-back and right-side centre-half. 2) A defender equally comfortable at left-back and left-side centre-half. 3) Another defender equally comfortable at left-back and left-side centre-half. 1/2

Squad number update for our five - so far - January window signings: 2: Olowabi-B. 26: Swinkles. 29: Curtis. 36: Braybrooke. 45: Ladapo.

FACT OF THE DAY. 2 January 1971. 66 football spectators were killed in a crush on a steep and frosty exit stairway when leaving Ibrox Stadium in Glasgow at the end of a Rangers versus Celtic derby match. It was the worst British football stadium disaster until the Hillsborough disaster in 1989.

Squad number latest: Freddie Ladapo has #45, and Malik Owolabi-Belewu has #2. Expect furious responses to the club's socials as a left-sided defender is given a right-sided defender's number! 😁

Zach Hemming became the 37th Chesterfield keeper to save a penalty today. Zach's was the 86th save made by a CFC keeper out of 513 known pens faced since 1919. We've faced 21 pens in the 90th min or later in games; 12 have been scored, 5 missed and 4 saved. 1/3

We were old hands at this, having played a war league game against Sheffield United on the Bramall Lane cricket pitch on Boxing Day 1916.

Just seen the second goal on the highlights. A travesty that Liam Mandeville won't get any official credit, it going down as an OG. Jatta and the keeper might have done better but look at the swing and dip on the corner! Mandy didn't just beat the keeper at the near post - he yorked him.

Poor Jamie Grimes! Got halfway home and had to turn round and go back, because he realised he still had Alassana Jatta in his pocket. 😁

Today's 10,059 gate was the third-highest at our new ground, and the second-highest in the league there, being beaten by only 30 by the Rotherham gate in 2010-11. The home fan count (9,035) was the 4th-highest ever, and the 2nd-highest ever in the FL.

Top scorer Lee Bonis now has 7 in the league. Own Goal has drawn level as second-highest scorer with Dobs and Markanday on 4. One more OG for us will set a record for league OGs a single season.

The return match between Chesterfield and Rotherham United was played on a snow-covered Saltergate pitch today. Both sides went at it for an even first 30 minutes before The Spireites asserted command. Leading 2-1 at the break, Chesterfield turned the screw in the second half 1/2 #CFC100

Of course, the question that will trouble Steve Smith's sleep tonight is "Have we got enough to declare?"

December 25th is the only day in the calendar on which a former Chesterfield player has not been born, or has not died.

He’s a real threat from deep

BBC News - Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Rotherham United had enough chances to have beaten Chesterfield by half-time in the clubs' meeting at Millmoor today but none were taken, leaving home supporters to rue that fact when Jimmy Cookson showed them how to do it in the second half. 1/3 #CFC100

The chap slated to take over Sheffield Wednesday has form as a poker player. How long before he walks into Napoleon's and loses the lot to Dave Allen? 😁

Person with a criminal conviction for obstruction of justice and perjury in connection with insider trading and who served a five-year ban as a company director to become minority owner of a British football club. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

Why are Xmas Eve games uncommon? Perhaps because the sadists who produced the fixtures paid scant attention to whether players could see much of their kids over the holiday period. Two of our 3 home games were against Millwall and Charlton, who will at least have got home by chucking-out time. 1/2

Since 1921, our average gate per December game has been 7,037. Our average Boxing Day gate has been 7,783. The club are advertising that This Boxing Day's game is a sell-out, which should mean a crowd just in excess of 10,000. Here are our 10k+ gates at the new ground, and our Dec 26 gates there.

Five away in the league unbeaten since Colchester on October 4th, which makes you wonder why some of ours sang "How sh*t must you be? We're winning away."

An extract from my transcription project for Scottish FA registrations & transfers, 1894-1914. This, from the 1901-2 season. Make you bloody mind up, George!

There were three possible results in Victorian football: win, draw or protest. On this day in 1890, Chesterfield Town were 4-1 up against Breaston in the Derbyshire Minor Cup quarter-final before the game was abandoned in failing light with 13 minutes left. (1/4)

Of the sixteen league-format games played by Chesterfield / Chesterfield Town on December 20th, thirteen have been played away. Six have ended in defeat, three in a draw and four have been won, including our last 3 Dec 20th games (Port Vale 1-0, 2008, Exeter City 2-0, 2013 and Gillingham 3-2, 2014.)

A rare goalless draw was played out at Ashington today. The Spireites prepared properly, having been in Whitley Bay since Thursday. With sleet and thick snow falling all day it looked like their journey might have been wasted until men from the thin 1,646 crowd cleared the goalmouths. 1/4 #CFC100