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On This Day in Sport (14 October 2009):
1894: At Goodison Park, Everton and Liverpool played
the first Merseyside derby. Everton won 3-0.
1937: Benny Lynch retained his world flyweight title
at Clyde's Shawfield Stadium with a 13th-round knockout of fellow
British boxer Peter Kane. The contest is regarded as one of the
finest flyweight bouts of all time.
1954: Britain's Chris Chataway knocked a staggering
five seconds off the world 5,000 metres record, clocking 13 minutes
51.6 seconds in beating the great Russian Vladimir Kuts at London's
White City.
1984: John Lowe made the first nine-dart finish in a
major championship. He did it in the quarter-finals of the British
Open at Slough to collect a record prize of £102,000. His 501
was made up of six treble 20s, treble 17, treble 18 and double 18.
1999: England and Scotland were drawn against each
other in the Euro 2000 play-offs, recreating the oldest fixture in
the international football calendar. England went on to reach the
finals in Holland and Belgium after a 2-1 aggregate win.
2002: Britain's Paula Radcliffe won the Chicago
Marathon, setting a new world record time of two hours, 17 minutes
and 18 seconds.
2004: A tearful Gary Speed, with 85 caps, retired from
international football with Wales after a 3-2 defeat to Poland in a
World Cup qualifier at the Millennium Stadium - Mark Hughes' last
match in charge.
2005: Hampshire paceman Chris Tremlett was ruled out
of England's tour to Pakistan after failing to recover from a
hamstring injury.
2006: World triathlon champion Tim Don was suspended
for three months by the British Triathlon Association after missing
three out-of-competition drug tests. |
