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Who won the first World Cup?
May 10 2009 by Ian Robson, Sunday Sun
NAME the North football team which beat Juventus. By 6-1. In a major competition.
Not Newcastle, or Sunderland, or Middlesbrough. Nor was it Hartlepool, or Darlington, or Carlisle, or York.
Nope, none of them. I’m looking for a team which had more international success than the whole lot combined.
I’m talking about – drum roll, please – the magnificent players of West Auckland, in County Durham.
And I’m not joking either. They really did beat the mighty Juventus by six goals to one.
It was, admittedly, 98 years ago but in this game you take your successes and milk them for everything you can.
Here’s a quick history lesson about how the team, composed of working min- ers, did it.
In 1909, they competed for the first World Cup, then known as the Sir Thomas Lipton Trophy, after the FA declined to send a national team. And they won, too, against Switzerland’s FC Winterhour by a credible 2-0. Two years later, they successfully defended the title against Juventus by that magnificent 6-1 scoreline, and were given the trophy to keep.
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