Curiously, Workington's final two matches in the Football League (1976/77) were against Newport in May 1977. County won both games 1-0.[/QUOTE]
You’d have thought that at least one of those was a rearrangement as the game up north was the 14th and the game at Somerton 3 days later. Most probably a waterlogged postponement from earlier in the season, I remember that 1976 was a ‘splitting the flagstones summer’ but then the most successful politician in his role ever, the ex football referee, Dennis Howell was appointed as Minister of Drought, he was so successful that after his Autumn appointment it lashed down continually for weeks.