ON THIS DAY

José Mourinho certainly seemed to keep the home fans happy but on this day in 2011 his 150 game unbeaten home league record as a manager ended when his Real Madrid side were beaten 1-0 by Sporting Gijón in the Primera Liga at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. His previous home defeat - which was his only other home league defeat as a manager - had taken place on 23rd February 2002 when his 9-man Porto side were beaten 3-2 by Beira-Mar in the Por tuguese League. Over the next 9 years his sides were unbeaten in 150 home League matches on the trot - those matches comprised his last 38 matches at Porto (36 wins, 2 draws), all 60 in his first spell at Chelsea (46 wins, 14 draws), all 38 matches at Inter Milan (29 wins, 9 draws) and his first 14 home matches at Real Madrid (all 14 were wins). When he returned to Chelsea in 2013 for his second spell as boss the Special One saw the Chelsea part of the unbeaten home Premier League record increase from 60 matches to 77 (61 won, 16 drawn) until lowly Sunderland recorded a 2-1 victory at Stamford Bridge on 19th April 2014. 3 rd April

A Premier League first - Jermaine Pennant became the first player to turn out in the Premier League wearing an electronic ankle-tag. He was required to wear one after being released from prison after 31 days of a three-month sentence for drink driving, driving while disqualified and driving without insurance. Ref Howard Webb allowed him to turn out at St Andrew's for Birmingham against Spurs (Pennant was on loan from Arsenal at the time) but not so happy about that decision was The Campaign Against Drink Driving who voiced their serious disapproval.

Ken Bates bought heavily-in-debt Chelsea…for £1.

The match that never was. The Division 4 match between Scunthorpe and Exeter was scheduled for Tuesday 2nd April 1974 but was called off by Exeter, without Football League permission, as they did not have enough fit players to raise a team. The Football League awarded the two points to Scunthorpe (and Exeter were fined) but the match was not ordered to be played. It was the first time in Football League history that a match remained unplayed at the conclusion of a season.

Dennis Wilshaw of Wolves became the only Englishman to score 4 goals against the Scots in England’s 7-2 victory over Scotland at Wembley.