Alan Hansen was a fantastic centre back during his career, winning 25 major honours for Liverpool between 1977 and 1991. A year after retiring from the game, Hansen became one of the pundits on BBC’s Match of the Day. With all of Hansen’s experience in the game, viewers took his opinions very seriously. However there […]
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Football’s Greatest Goals No.38
This week’s ‘Greatest Goal’ comes from Aston Villa’s Dalian Atkinson in the first season of the Premier League.The goal came on a wet October afternoon against Wimbledon at Selhurst Park. It was the second season that Wimbledon were playing their home games at Crystal Palace’s home ground after leaving their Plough Lane home in 1991. […]
On This Day – 15th November
This article might win you a point at a pub quiz one day! It was on this day back in 1969 that the first games was broadcast in technicolour on ‘Match of the Day’. Liverpool hosted West Ham United at Anfield and beat them 2-0. World Cup winners Geoff Hurst and Bobby Moore were in […]
On This Day – 22nd August
“Welcome to Match of the Day, the first of a weekly series coming to you every Saturday on BBC Two”.This was the introduction that Kenneth Wolstenholme gave as Match of the Day was broadcast for the first time on this day back in 1964.Wolstenholme would become famous two years later for his line of “They […]
On This Day – 19th August
20 year old Nicky Butt playing in Manchester United’s opening day defeat to Aston Villa It was on this day back in 1995 that Alan Hansen uttered the immortal line of “You’ll win nothing with kids” on Match of the Day after Manchester United lost 3-1 to Aston Villa on the opening day of the […]