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 […]
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On This Day – 17th May
Roberto Di Martteo fires Chelsea ahead after only 42 seconds Chelsea won the FA Cup on this day back in 1997, beating Middlesbrough 2-0 in the Final at Wembley.This was only the second time that The Blues had won the FA Cup, the first time was in 1970. Chelsea had a dream start thanks to […]
Great FA Cup Runs No.4
Jamie Hewitt (second left) celebrates his equaliser in the 1997 FA Cup Semi-Final Chesterfield’s FA Cup run in 1997 went largely unnoticed by the majority of the nation until the Semi-Final stage, disappearing under the radar in the early rounds as they avoided all of the big guns. The first game on their FA Cup […]