ON THIS DAY

An embarrassing result for England against the USA. Paul Ince captained the side for the first time at the Foxboro Stadium in Boston but the 2-0 defeat saw the headline in the Sun – ‘Yanks 2 Planks 0’.

There was a time when it seemed that all pop stars wanted to be footballers and all footballers wanted to be pop stars. Take Kevin Keegan for example. On June 9th 1979 he released a single, Head Over Heals in Love, the B side being Move On Down . That wasn't his first single - It Ain't Easy bombed in 1972 but Head Over Heals reached the dizzy heights of 31 in the UK pop charts. In did even better in Germany, where Keegan was playing for Hamburg at the time, where it reached number 10 in their charts. When he returned to English football in 1980 it saw the release of another single, aptly named England, but by then any dreams of pop stardom were long gone. But hey, the Gallagher brothers didn't make the Manchester City first team either!