ON THIS DAY

The destination of the 2009/10 Premier League title went to the last day of the season – Sunday 9th May 2010. Two clubs could win the title – Chelsea and Manchester United. A win for Chelsea – at home to Wigan - would see them champions but if they were to lose or draw Manchester United would claim their fourth title in a row if they were to beat Stoke at Old Trafford. United duly beat Stoke 4-0 but Chelsea were dominant at Stamford Bridge. Wigan went down to 10 men late in the first half and by the full-time whistle the Londoners were 8-0 victors. That was a new club record League victory for the Blues with the goals seeing them become the first club to score a century of Premier League goals in a season. So the title was Chelsea’s and a week later they beat Portsmouth at Wembley to secure their first League/FA Cup double. 10 th May

A week after Ian St John joined Liverpool from Motherwell for a club record fee (a mahoosive £37,500!) the Scottish international made his debut for the Reds. Although Liverpool lost the Liverpool Senior Cup final 3-4 against Everton at Goodison Park St John scored all 3 Liverpool goals in front of an amazing 51,669 crowd.

England played their first international against foreign opposition at Wembley, beating Argentina 2-1 in front of 99,000 fans. Since 1924 England had only played Scotland at Wembley. The match kicked off at 3 o'clock on a Wednesday afternoon - it would be another 4 years before floodlights were installed at the national stadium.