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On This Day in Sport (13 April 2011):
1936: Joe Payne set a Football League record by
scoring 10 goals for Luton in a Division Three (South) match against
Bristol Rovers.
1980: Seve Ballesteros became the youngest winner of
the US Masters at the age of 23 years and four days.
1986: Ayrton Senna, in a Lotus, beat Britain's Nigel
Mansell to win the Spanish Grand Prix by just 14 hundredths of a second.
1999: Kevin Phillips scored four as Sunderland
clinched promotion to the Premiership with a 5-2 victory over Bury.
2000: Rugby league legend Shaun Edwards, the most
decorated player in the game's history, announced his retirement
after a 17-year career with Wigan and Great Britain following a
succession of knee and head injuries.
2002: First Division champions Manchester City signed
former Denmark international and Manchester United goalkeeper Peter
Schmeichel from Aston Villa.
2003: Paula Radcliffe smashed the women's marathon
record - becoming the first woman to run under two hours 16 minutes -
with a successful defence of her London Marathon title.
2004: Roy Keane announced he would return to play for
the Republic of Ireland - having quit international football after
his highly-publicised bust-up with former international manager Mick
McCarthy at the 2002 World Cup finals..
2010 Manchester City's Emmanuel Adebayor announces his
retirement from international football, citing the attack on the Togo
team bus as the reason for his decision |