News relevant to the club on this day previously
Richard Day looks back at news relevant to Gillingham FC on this day in history, games, players, debuts etc...FIXTURES…
1901 - Southampton 5-0 New Brompton SLD1
1910 - Leyton 0-0 New Brompton FAC1
1921 - Gillingham 1-3 Brentford D3
A Tommy Hall effort wasn't enough for a points
1927 - Bristol City 9-4 Gillingham D3S Att: 11,081
Doubles from Stanley Amos and William Arblaster were nowhere near enough at Ashton Gate
1938 - Watford 1-1 Gillingham D3S Att: 7,843
Jim Watson got the goal in a draw at Vicarage Road
1949 - Gillingham 7-1 Exeter City Res SLD1 Att: 6,698
Jackie Carr and Hughie Russell both hit hat-tricks, the latters included a penalty, and Johnny Warsap completed the rout
1972 - Swansea City 1-0 Gillingham D4 Att: 5,099
1983 - Oxford Utd 1-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 4,936
Mark Weatherly was on target at the Manor Ground
1991 - Gillingham 2-1 Canterbury C KSC2 Att: 598
Tony Eeles and Billy Manuel scored to send the Gills into the next round
1994 - Darlington 2-1 Gillingham D3 Att: 2,111
The Gills scorer at Feethams was Liburd Henry
2000 - Bristol Rovers 2-1 Gillingham D2 Att: 8,331
Iffy Onuora netted at the Memorial Ground
2005 - Gillingham 1-0 Plymouth Arg. C Att: 8,451
Andrew Crofts scored the only goal of the game just after the hour mark
2011- Gillingham 1-0 Northampton LG2 Att: 5,613
Cody McDonald was on target to give the Gills all three points at the Priestfield.
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DEBUTS…
1921 - Ernest Ollerenshaw versus Brentford
1938 - Laurie Fishlock away at Watford
1983 - Martin Hodge against Oxford away
2000 - Ty Gooden at Bristol R
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BIRTHS…
1971 - Tommy Johnson
The experienced striker arrived at Priestfield on a free transfer from Kilmarnock in the summer of 2002.
Among his former clubs were Aston Villa and Celtic with transfer fee's topping the £5m mark.
He made his Gills debut as a substitute against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park in August 2002.
Unfortunately his time at Priestfield was blighted by injuries and he went on to score eight goals in 56 games, more than half coming as a substitute.
In February 2005 he joined Sheffield United and later played for Scunthorpe United,Tamworth and Rocester.
In November 2007 he returned to Notts County, his first club, as part of the coaching staff but left shortly after Paul Ince's arrival as manager.
In February 2012 he was announced as assistant to Northern Ireland’s new Under-21 manager Stephen Robinson.