Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 15 February 1913
Another Slump
Chesterfield Reserves 6 Denaby United 0
Denaby, on their fine revival at Trent Bridge on the previous Thursday, when they beat Notts County for the second time this season in grand style by three goals to one, expected considerably more than we saw at Chesterfield on Saturday, when they were handsomely beaten, and six goals more were piled on to their already bulky adverse goal average.
Denaby appear to have been deplorably weak against the leaders of the League, and, added to that, to have had all the worst of what luck there was going.
For a considerable portion of the game they were tackling Chesterfield with nine men.
Had they retained their full strength they might have made a better fight of it, though they were admittedly weak in almost all departments, but especially in the back division, which has never been quite satisfactory right from the beginning of the season.
Heath, of course, played a fine game. No goalkeeper in the League gets better opportunities of appearing to advantage than does he.
But he would indeed be a miraculous ‘keeper if he could, by virtue of his goalkeeping, keep a team like Denaby out of the mire.