'I don't think it will ever happen again' - how Northampton reached top flight
17-04-2025 06:41 via bbc.com

'I don't think it will ever happen again' - how Northampton reached top flight

It will never happen again that a club sharing a ground with a county cricket team will reach the top flight of English football.And yet that was the reality for Northampton Town, who, on 17 April 1965, sealed promotion to the old First Division with a 4-1 away win at Bury.It capped an outstanding managerial achievement by Dave Bowen, who guided Northampton from the fourth tier to the first in just five seasons - a rise which, by comparison, took Luton Town nine years to emulate in the current c
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