ON THIS DAY

When a club draws the away leg of a two-legged cup tie the belief is always going to be that they must surely start as favourites for the home leg. But that isn't always the case! When Fourth Division Aldershot drew 0-0 at Hillsborough in the first leg of the 1989/90 Littlewoods Cup (League Cup) Second Round tie their fans had high hopes for their home second leg match especially as Sheffield Wednesday had only scored twice in their opening nine competitive matches of the season. But things didn't work out like that. On October 3rd 1989 Steve Whitton scored 4 and Dalian Atkinson 3 in Wednesday's 8-0 victory at the Recreation Ground which became the new record away win in the competition.

England played their first match in the European Championship - then the European Nations Cup - a first leg qualifier against France played in front of 35,380 at Hillsborough. A Ron Flowers penalty gave England a 1-1 draw. Walter Winterbottom was in charge for that match but Alf Ramsey made his debut as England manager when the second leg was played the following February in Paris - but England lost that one 5-2.