ON THIS DAY

Moving north of the border Heart of Midlothian have had their home at Tynecastle Park in Edinburgh since 1866. The record attendance at that ground was set back on 13th February 1932 when 53,396 were present for a Scottish Cup tie against Rangers. In more recent years though the Tynecastle capacity has been as low as under 20,000 so when mighty Barcelona visited the Scottish capital for a pre-season friendly against Hearts the venue was switched to the nearby Murrayfield Stadium, the home of the Scottish Rugby Union. And after over 150 years at Tynecastle that match on Murrayfield - played on Saturday 28th July 2007 - saw a new home record attendance for a Hearts match being set.....57,857. It wasn't the first time that Hearts had temporarily move home to Murrayfield. In the 2000s they played six home Champions League/UEFA Cup matches at Murrayfield as Tynecastle wasn't up to UEFA standards - top crowd 32,459 v AEK Athens. Later, in 2017/18, they played their first four home League matches of the season at Murrayfield due to building work at Tynecastle - top crowd 32,852 v Rangers. And the match against Barcelona - Ronaldinho gave the visitors the lead from a 21st minute penalty, Juho Makela equalised, Ronaldinho restored the Barca lead before sub Thierry Henry set up Giovanni Dos Santos to score the final goal in the Spaniards 3-1 victory. 29 th July

Just two days short of the 19th anniversary the players from the 1966 World Cup final between England and West Germany played against each other again to raise money for the Bradford Fire Disaster Fund. England again ran out winners - or strolled out winners was perhaps a more accurate description of the speed of play - this time 6-4 with Geoff Hurst again hitting a hat-trick. A crowd of 19,496 at Elland Road, Leeds, contributed nearly £50,000 towards the appeal.