Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 29 April 1907

South Yorkshire League Final
A Lively Wind-Up

The re-played senior final of the South Yorkshire League drew a record crowd at Bolton, and produced a lively scene.

The opposing teams were Thurnscoe United and South Kirkby Reserve, who had previously played a drawn game of one all at Goldthorpe.

On Saturday South Kirkby, strengthened by a trio of their first team, were by far the cleverer lot, and had established clear three-goal lead at half-time. This, it appears, did not agree with the supporters of Thurnscoe, whose indignation led to the hatching of a conspiracy during the interval, carried out with dramatic effect, about a quarter of an hour after the resumption.

Then, when South Kirkby scored a fourth goal, the spectators, at a given signal, rushed on to the field and stopped the game. The solitary policeman present was powerless, and the referee had no option but to declare the match off.

The League officials present immediately held an emergency meeting, at which it was decided, according to rule, that the game must be re-played in its entirety.

It was resolved that the match should take place at Hemsworth on Tuesday evening.