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Carlisle United "weird ones"

Carlisle United striker Frank Clarke missed a penalty against Leyton Orient on 4 December 1976 which had been conceded by his brother Derek Clarke

Carlisle United once held the record for the youngest and the oldest managers to have been put in charge of a Football League club for the first time. In 1946 Ivor Broadis was appointed player-manager at 23. On 15 November 1975 Dick Young was appointed manager at 58. In 1946 Ivor Broadis was appointed player-manager at 23.

In the 1938-39 season Walter Hunt scored 4, 4 and 3 goals for Carlisle United respectively against Lincoln City, Accrington Stanley and Rochdale. The three clubs in question having been his former teams.


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