ON THIS DAY

Derby may have suffered a disappointing defeat at home to Millwall in the Championship but according to the Sunday Times they had the compensation of attracting a world record attendance to Pride Park for the match - 262,072. It must have been a tight squeeze as that's over 60,000 more than the previous record achieved at the Maracana Stadium in Brazil for the 1950 World Cup Final. Sadly it didn't make The Guinness Book of Records though as it proved to be a misprint in the Sunday Times. It should have been 26,272! 15 th December

Sir Bobby Charlton received a lifetime achievement award at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year Awards ceremony. And it proved to be a very emotional event. Bobby and his brother Jack – arguably the two most famous brothers in British sporting history – had for years been on poor terms with each of them being critical of his brother in their respective autobiographies. But at the awards ceremony held at the Liverpool Echo Arena Bobby’s award was presented to him by Jack who said of his younger brother ‘Bobby Charlton is the greatest player I’ve ever seen – and he’s my brother.’ They embraced, the feud was over and they seemed to be as close as they were 42 years earlier on that special day in July 1966. Ah!

A 60,891 Villa Park watched in disbelief as Aston Villa lost 7-1 at home to Arsenal with Ted Drake scoring all seven of Arsenal’s goals. That set the record for the most goals scored in a match by a player in the top division and was the most goals scored in any competitive match by an Arsenal player.