ON THIS DAY

It was announced that the clubs who took part in the 2016/17 Champions League shared £1.25 billion in payments from UEFA. Leicester City in their debut season in the competition were the second biggest earners with £73.2m with the Foxes being ahead of winners Real Madrid (£72.6m) but behind runners-up Juventus (£98.6m). The biggest portion of the payments related to television money which was based on the TV deal operating in the country of each club. Funnily enough I had just been reading an Oxford United programme from 1986 just after they had won the Milk Cup (League Cup) at Wembley. For winning the 'biggest team prize in British sport' their bank balance was better off by £72,000. Beaten finalists QPR collected £55,000, the beaten semi-finalists £18,000 each down to the First Round losers who each received £1,750. Times had certainly changed!

Now we have all heard about those dodgy Scottish goalkeepers. When Aberdeen visited Motherwell for a Scottish Premier League fixture in October 1999 not many goals were expected. Aberdeen had lost all their previous seven League matches that season, scoring just a single goal in those matches. The opposing goalkeepers that day were the two top Scottish keepers of that era - Andy Goram and Jim Leighton. So Aberdeen won 6-5.

The First Division match between Manchester United and Arsenal became the 'Battle of Old Trafford' - or is that one of many 'Battles of Old Trafford!' - when a clash between Arsenal's Nigel Winterburn and United's Brian McClair erupted into a full-scale brawl involving 21 players, only Arsenal's 'keeper David Seaman watching on. As a result both clubs were charged with, and found guilty of, bringing the game into disrepute. Manchester United were docked one point and Arsenal - because they had been involved in a similar brawl the previous season against Norwich - lost two points.

Leicester recorded their highest League score with a 10-0 First Division victory over Portsmouth at Filbert Street. Arthur Chandler equalled the Leicester individual record with six goals in that win which became known as the 'six swans match'. After Chandler had scored five goals five swans flew over Filbert Street. A sixth swan flew over shortly afterwards and the fans demanded a sixth goal from Chandler, which he duly scored.