ON THIS DAY

Footballers behaving badly hit the headlines again. Four Chelsea players - Frank Lampard, John Terry, Eidur Gudjohnsen and Jody Morris - allegedly stripped, swore and vomited in front of Americans stranded at a Heathrow hotel because of travel chaos the day after the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center. All four were fined two weeks wages by the club although the incident was later to revisit Lampard when in 2014 when, just before he signed for NY City, a New York newspaper ran a story about the incident under the headline 'British soccer star poised to join NY team once mocked Americans after 9/11 attacks.' 13 th September

The Faroe Islands had their moment of glory when they beat Austria 1-0 in their first competitive match, a Euro qualifier. The ‘home’ match was played in Sweden as the Faroes (population under 50,000) didn’t have a grass pitch to play on.

Liverpool had a 9-0 home League victory over Crystal Palace with 8 different players scoring the goals. Despite that scoreline Liverpool scored more goals away from home than they did at Anfield in achieving their 18th League title that season. Liverpool did the League double over Palace that season but the Londoners did record a memorable cup victory over the Merseysiders in 1989/90 - beating Liverpool 4-3 in the FA Cup semi-final at Villa Park to reach their first FA Cup Final.

A sensation at Elland Road with Leeds United sacking manager Brian Clough after just 44 days in charge. Defending League champions Leeds had taken just 4 points from their first six League matches of the new season.