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1 “THEIR GOALIE’S PAST IT, LADS”
If you thought mask-wearing footballers started at Facundo Sava, think again.
Various odd things occurred in the Football League in 1992: a Fourth Division club qualified for Europe, as Cardiff won the Welsh Cup, and the top four tiers had 93 clubs for the very first time, with plans to expand to 94 that summer. That was until Aldershot went bankrupt in March, then Maidstone followed them in August. Relegation to the Conference was scrapped.
In the play-offs, the launch of the Premier League and the renaming of divisions gave clubs the chance to ascend two leagues at once. Blackburn overcame Leicester to rise from the old Second
