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On This Day in Sport (17 December 2008):
1927: Bill Ponsford, playing for Victoria against
Queensland at Melbourne, scored 437 runs to beat his own world record
of 429 set nearly five years earlier.
1937: Australian media magnate Kerry Packer, who
turned the world of cricket upside down in 1977 by announcing plans
to launch a world series on his television station, was born.
2000: Danny Murphy scored the goal which ended
Manchester United's two-year unbeaten home record in the Premiership
as Liverpool recorded a famous 1-0 victory over their fiercest rivals
at Old Trafford.
2001: Liverpool striker Michael Owen became the first
Englishman to be named European Footballer of the Year since Kevin
Keegan in 1979. |