It is fair to say that this week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ was the turning point in Liverpool’s successful Champions League run in the 2004/05 season. Without it, the club wouldn’t have even made it out of the group stages and their famous night in Istanbul would never have occurred. Olympiakos lead the group with ten points […]
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Greatest Own Goals of All-Time No.23
Some players tend to have more bad luck than others with own goals. As a fan, you always remember the hapless defender who was the unlucky man in the wrong place at the wrong time. He always managed to divert the ball past your team’s goalkeeper more than any other player.As an Arsenal fan, it […]
On This Day – 9th November
It used to be dodgy burgers, anaemic-looking chips and questionable meat pies that people associated with food served up at football matches. However, on this day in 2000 another type of food was added to the menu so to speak when Manchester United’s Roy Keane added prawn sandwiches! In a post-match interview after his side […]
On This Day – 2nd November
Football does have it’s fair share of comedy moments but I’m sure Mancini wasn’t laughing after this particular incident! It was on this day back in 2011 that Manchester City manager Roberto Mancini had a bit of an accident in an away game with Villarreal in the Champions League. Dugouts have changed their appearance over […]
Record Breakers No.1 – Thierry Henry breaks the Arsenal goalscoring record
In this new series, I look back on moments when players or teams break records, some good, others less so! First in this series is the match when Thierry Henry broke the Arsenal goalscoring record… Thierry Henry finally became Arsenal’s record goalscorer on 18th October 2005, scoring both of Arsenal’s goals in a 2-0 win […]
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On This Day – 28th September
Wayne Rooney made an impressive start to his career at Old Trafford, scoring a hat-trick on his debut on this day back in 2004.The 18 year old joined from Everton for £30 million and made an immediate impact in a 6-2 win over Turkish side Fenerbahce. Rooney could, and perhaps should have scored early on, […]
On This Day – 26th May
I have already written about Arsenal’s last-gasp victory over Liverpool in 1989, which I believe is the greatest last-minute win of all-time. This can be found here. That victory for Arsenal took place on this day in 1989 but the article I am going to write about today took place 10 years after.Manchester United faced […]
On This Day – 21st April
The Manchester United team line up before the Juventus game One of Manchester United’s great comebacks took place on this day back in 1999.After drawing 1-1 at Old Trafford with Juventus in the First Leg of the Semi Final, they went to Turin knowing that they would need to score to have a chance of […]