ON THIS DAY

The most embarrassing postponement of all time? A 75,000 crowd was assembling at Old Trafford for what should have been Manchester United's last Premier League match of the 2015/16 season, against Bournemouth. Then a 'suspect device' was found in one of the toilets, the ground was evacuated, the match was called-off and a controlled explosion was carried out. It was later found that the 'suspect device' was a dummy bomb which had been used in a security training exercise at Old Trafford and which had unknowingly been left at the ground by mistake. No-one had discovered the very realistic-looking pipe-bomb (as pictured) until just before scheduled kick off - and then nobody was taking any chances. Two days later United beat Bournemouth 3-1 in the re-arranged fixture. 16 th May

Spurs became the first British club to win a European competition when they hammered Atletico Madrid 5-1 in the final of the European Cup Winners’ Cup played in Rotterdam.

The Denmark v England international played in Copenhagen saw Stanley Matthews play his last match for England. He had won his first cap as a 19-year-old against Wales in 1934 and over the next 23 years had played 54 times for his country. At 42 years and 103 days his appearance against Denmark saw him set the record as the oldest player ever to turn out for England. In fact only two other over-40s have played for England - both were goalkeepers - Alec Morton back in the 1870's and more recently Peter Shilton. Stanley Matthews also holds the record for being England's oldest goalscorer with a goal against Northern Ireland in October 1956 when he was 41 years and 248 days old, that's over five years older than the next oldest, Tom Finney. England won the match in Denmark 4-1, a World Cup qualifier, to virtually assure their place at the 1958 finals in Sweden.