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On This Day in Sport (25 October 2011):
1983: West Ham became the first team to score 10 goals
in a League Cup match, beating Bury 10-0 in their second round,
second leg tie.
1989: Oldham's Frankie Bunn set a League Cup
individual scoring record when he put six goals past Scarborough in a
7-0 Boundary Park annihilation.
1991: Pakistan seamer Aqib Javed took then record
one-day bowling figures of seven for 37 - including a hat-trick -
against India.
1996: Ray Harford resigned as manager of Blackburn -
16 months after taking over from the championship-winning Kenny
Dalglish - with the club bottom of the Premiership after picking up
only four points in 10 winless league matches.
1998: David O'Leary was confirmed as the new manager
of Leeds, replacing George Graham who had moved back to London to
take charge of Tottenham.
2004: Manchester United plc cut off negotiations with
prospective owner Malcolm Glazer. The American had raised his stake
in the club to 28.11%, close to the mark where he had to make a
formal takeover offer, but United called off talks stating "the
board has determined that it would not support any offer underpinned
by the structure which has been outlined in relation to the Glazer
family's potential offer". Glazer bought a controlling stake in
the club in May 2005.
2010 Roger Federer equals Pete Sampras' mark of 64
career titles as he beats Florian Mayer in straight sets in the final
of the Stockholm Open |
