It was on this day in 1998 that Chelsea and Ruud Gullit parted company. Chelsea chairman Ken Bates had decided to fire Gullit from his role as manager, a decision that was rather surprising.At the time, Gullit had guided Chelsea to second in the Premier League and the Quarter Final of the Coca Cola Cup […]
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Historic Matches No.3 – Charlton Athletic 4 Sunderland 4
Charlton Athletic celebrate with the trophy The 1998 First Division Play Off Final will go down as one of the most enthralling and entertaining finals of all-time.Charlton Athletic hadn’t played in the new Premier League since it was formed in 1992 and their last season in the top flight was the 1989/90 campaign. Sunderland were […]
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On This Day – 14th October
Youth team graduate Jason Crowe made his debut for Arsenal on this day back in 1997 and it would be a match that he will never forget.Crowe came on in place of experienced right back Lee Dixon at the start of extra time in the League Cup Third Round tie at home to First Division […]
Iconic Moments in Football No.40
This week’s Iconic Moment comes from Coventry City vs Newcastle United on 8th November 1997.Only four minutes of the game had passed when Coventry’s striker Dion Dublin embarrassed United’s goalkeeper Shay Given to score one of the strangest goals in Premier League history. Coventry’s Gary McAllister whipped in a high looping cross to the far […]
On this Day – 16th May
Arsenal beat Newcastle United 2-0 on this day to win the FA Cup. In doing so, they completed the League and Cup Double for the second time in their history. It was the perfect end to Arsene Wenger’s first full season in charge at Highbury. The Frenchman had revitalised the squad and brought in his […]
Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.4
Jamie Pollock after his famous own-goal in 1998 If you start typing ‘Jamie Pollock’ into Google, the search engine predictive text facility’s first guess is that you are looking up ‘Jamie Pollock Own Goal’!This must be particularly frustrating for Pollock as he had made 367 appearances in the Football League over the course of his […]