England finally returned to their spiritual home of Wembley on this day in 2007 after more than six and a half years away from London. It had taken longer than expected for the new stadium to be completed and had cost around £750 million to build, but the all-new 90,000 capacity stadium was ready to […]
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On This Day -13th May
Current Manchester United manager Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made his last Premier League appearance for the club as a player on this day back in 2007. Solskjaer joined United for only £1.5 million, from Molde in his native Norway. In all, he made 366 appearances for the club and scored 126 times. The most famous of […]
On This Day – 24th March
Italy’s Giampaolo Pazzini celebrates scoring the first goal at the new Wembley Stadium The New Wembley opened its doors for the first time on this day in 2007, almost seven years after the final game at the original Wembley Stadium. England Under 21s played the Italy Under 21s in front of a crowd of 55,700. […]
On This Day – 10th March
On this day back in 2007, 19-year-old Lionel Messi scored the first career hat-trick of his career.The diminutive Argentine couldn’t have picked a bigger setting, with his treble coming in the famous El Classico derby between his Barcelona side and their rivals Real Madrid. Both sides shared six goals in a thrilling encounter. Messi’s first […]
On This Day – 11th January
David Beckham at the statue of him at LA Galaxy David Beckham announced on this day back in 2007 that he would be leaving the mighty Real Madrid to joining MLS side LA Galaxy. It seemed to be a real backward step for Beckham’s football career, leaving ‘The Galacticos’ for a league that was deemed […]
On This Day – 22nd November
Steve McClaren became known as the ‘Wally with the Brolly’ on this day in 2007 as his England side failed to qualify for Euro 2008.England hosted Croatia at Wembley, knowing that avoiding defeat would take them to the Finals the following year. Croatia had already qualified for the European Championships and both sides would qualify […]
On This Day – 17th September
Kenny Miller celebrates his first goal in Derby colours. There would be little else for the players and fans to celebrate over the rest of the 2007/08 season Derby beat Newcastle in the Premier League 1-0 at Pride Park on this day back in 2007, thanks to a debut goal from Kenny Miller. The victory […]
On This Day – 28th June
Chris Coleman became manager of Real Sociedad on this day back in 2007 after being recommended by fellow Welshman John Toshack.Toshack himself had managed Sociedad on three separate occasions and was on very good terms with the directors of the club. They took a bit of a gamble with Chris Coleman as he had never […]