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On This Day in Sport (09 May 2011):
1927: Joe Davis beat Tom Dennis 20-11 at Camkin's
Hall, Birmingham to win the first world professional snooker
championship. Davis beat a field of 10 to take the trophy.
1928: American tennis player 'Pancho' Gonzales was
born. He made history at Wimbledon in 1969 when he beat Charlie
Pasarell in the longest-ever singles match. The contest went to 112
games (22-24 1-6 16-14 6-3 11-9) and took five hours and 20 minutes
to complete. He died in 1995.
1936: Footballer Bernard Joy played his one and only
game for England against Belgium. A member of the successful
Corinthian Casuals team, he was the last amateur to play for England
at this level.
2001: Harry Redknapp left his job as manager of West Ham.
2004: Michael Schumacher equalled the best-ever start
to a Formula One season by winning his fifth consecutive race at the
Spanish Grand Prix.
2005: John Robertson parted company with Hearts after
refusing to take the assistant coach's role in a restructure at the club.
2006: Tottenham asked the Premier League to order a
rematch against West Ham after 10 of their players went down with
food poisoning at the team hotel on the morning of a game they went
on to lose when victory would have put them into the Champions
League. The Premier League subsequently rejected the appeal. |
