ON THIS DAY

Nowadays it seems you need to be an Arab Sheikh to purchase a major football club but in days gone by it was television companies who had their cheque books out ready to buy clubs. Back on 5th November1999 - six months after British Sky Broadcasting had failed in a bid to buy Manchester United outright for £623 million - BSkyB bought a 9.9% share of Manchester City for £5.5 million. That valued the then second-tier City at a mahoosive £54million! That wouldn't buy them a decent reserve team player nowadays!

Emlyn Hughes made his England debut in a 1-0 friendly win over Holland in Amsterdam. He went on the win 62 caps for his country and was the only player to make appearances for England in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. 'Crazy Horse' Hughes found continued fame as a team captain in BBC's A Question of Sport , once being threatened with a battering from Princess Anne and her handbag!

Arsenal won 7-1 at Wolves – the previous Saturday they had beaten Leicester 8-2 at Highbury – but back in North London the underground opposite their home ground was renamed Arsenal from Gillespie Road.