Football League Division Three
Thursday, December 25, 1958

Brentford Swindon Town
G.McLeod (??'), G.Francis (??')
 HT: 2-1 B.Edwards (18', 56')
Attendance:  12,500    


1
CAKEBREAD
2
WILSON
3
HORNE
4
BRISTOW
5
DARGIE
6
COOTE
7
PARSONS
8
RAINFORD
9
FRANCIS
10
TOWERS
11
MCLEOD
1
BURTON
2
NEAL
3
LEE
4
FOUNTAIN
5
HUDSON
6
OWEN
7
CORBETT
8
MICKLEWRIGHT
9
KELLY
10
EDWARDS
11
DARCY

Lineups
1
Gerry CAKEBREAD
                 
Sam BURTON
1
2
Tommy WILSON
                 
John NEAL
2
3
Ken HORNE
                 
Jimmy LEE
3
4
George BRISTOW
                 
Jack FOUNTAIN
4
5
Ian DARGIE
                 
Garth HUDSON
5
6
Ken COOTE
                 
Maurice OWEN
6
7
Eric 'Rabbit' PARSONS
                 
David CORBETT
7

8
Johnny RAINFORD
                 
Andy MICKLEWRIGHT
8

9
George FRANCIS
               
Jimmy KELLY
9
10
Jim TOWERS
               
Bob EDWARDS
10
11
George MCLEOD
               
Arnold DARCY
11













Results on Thursday, December 25, 1958: League Table
 
  Brentford 2 - 2 Swindon Town  
  Newport County 4 - 2 Southampton  

Table as at Thursday, December 25, 1958:
  TEAM P W D L F A GA Pts 
1 Plymouth Argyle 23 13 8 2 53 30 1.77 34 
2 Hull City 24 13 5 6 45 30 1.50 31 
3 Southampton 24 10 8 6 54 36 1.50 28 
4 Southend United 24 11 6 7 44 35 1.26 28 
5 Swindon Town 23 10 6 7 31 24 1.29 26 
6 Reading 23 9 8 6 36 29 1.24 26 
7 Tranmere Rovers 23 10 6 7 38 33 1.15 26 
8 Newport County 24 10 6 8 39 36 1.08 26 
9 Brentford 24 9 8 7 29 27 1.07 26 
10 Colchester United 22 9 7 6 38 31 1.23 25 
11 Accrington Stanley 23 9 7 7 39 33 1.18 25 
12 Bury 23 8 8 7 39 30 1.30 24 
13 Queens Park Rangers 23 9 6 8 38 40 0.95 24 
14 Wrexham 22 9 6 7 33 35 0.94 24 
15 Halifax Town 21 11 1 9 37 40 0.93 23 
16 Bournemouth and Boscombe Athletic 24 10 2 12 36 40 0.90 22 
17 Bradford City 23 7 6 10 40 41 0.98 20 
18 Norwich City 22 6 8 8 33 36 0.92 20 
19 Stockport County 24 7 5 12 37 45 0.82 19 
20 Mansfield Town 21 7 4 10 35 48 0.73 18 
21 Chesterfield 23 5 7 11 29 34 0.85 17 
22 Notts County 23 3 10 10 28 47 0.60 16 
23 Doncaster Rovers 23 6 1 16 23 49 0.47 13 
24 Rochdale 23 3 5 15 20 45 0.44 11 

Key: Promotion Relegation