ON THIS DAY

Dreams can come true in football. On 26th November 2011 Jamie Vardy scored a goal for non-leaguers Fleetwood Town in front of a crowd of 768 in a Conference match at Gateshead. Four years later - almost to the day - on November 28th 2015 he scored for Leicester City against Manchester United. He had scored in 11 consecutive Premier League matches breaking the record of 10 set by Manchester United's Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003. Vardy increased the record to 12 in helping Leicester City's Premier League title challenge - surely another unlikely dream come true in itself!

Manchester United bought Eric Cantona from Leeds United for £1.2m. Not a bad buy I guess!

In 1991 the rules were changed to allow penalty shoot-outs to replace multiple replays in the FA Cup. The first tie to be decided by the new rules was the First Round tie between Rotherham and Scunthorpe on Tuesday November 26th 1991 when, after two drawn games, Rotherham won the penalty decider 7-6 at the Millmoor replay.

Kenny Dalglish scored for Liverpool in their 1-1 draw at Ipswich in their First Division clash, his 100th League goal for Liverpool. Prior to joining Liverpool Kenny Dalglish had scored 111 League goals for Celtic and while he wasn't the first player to score a century of goals north and south of the border he was the first to achieve that feat when playing for just one club in both England and Scotland. He went on to better his goals at Celtic with 118 League goals for Liverpool. He was also the first Scot to make a century of appearances for his country, he managed Liverpool, had an Anfield stand named after him and became Sir Kenneth in 2018. A true footballing legend.

An abandonment in the 1904/05 season changed the outcome of the League championship. Everton's match at Woolwich Arsenal on November 26th 1904 was abandoned after 76 minutes due to fog with the Merseysiders leading 3-1. When the match was eventually played again, just before the end of the season when they had to play 3 matches in 4 days, Everton lost 2-1. If the original match had been completed (and if the scoreline had remained the same), Everton would have pipped Newcastle to the League Championship by a point. Instead they finished second.