ON THIS DAY

One of those 'injuries' which the whole world soon found out about. Spanish international Marco Asensio missed Real Madrid's first Champions League match of 2017/18 because of a leg injury. He had shaved his legs - the razor was dirty - a hair follicle on his leg became infected causing a pimple - and so he couldn't pull one of his socks up. Must have been painful!

The shirt worn by George Best when he scored six goals in Manchester United's 8-2 FA Cup victory at Northampton in February 1970 was sold at auction at Christie's for £24,000. At the same memorabilia auction two other shirts sold for more modest amounts. The top worn by Bobby Moore in his final Football League appearance (for Fulham v Blackburn in May 1977) and Eric Cantona's shirt which he wore in his last League match for Manchester United (v West Ham in May 1997) each sold for £3,600.

Well, I think if someone is going to make a public announcement it's important to make sure they get the facts right! Back in 1946 when Cliff Bastin played his last match for Arsenal he had set the first-team goalscoring record for the Gunners with 178 goals to his name. Fast forward to 1997 and another Arsenal legend, Ian Wright, was getting close to breaking that record. On 13th September 1997 Wrighty was in the Arsenal line-up for the Premier League match against Bolton Wanderers having scored 177 goals for the Gunners. After 20 minutes Ian Wright scored and immediately removed his Arsenal shirt to reveal a T-shirt underneath with the message printed on it ' 179 Just Done It '. Except that he hadn't done it. 177 plus 1 = 178 and so he had equalled the record not beaten it! Mind you the T-shirt was on show again five minutes later when he scored a second to break that record and later increased the total to 180 when he completed a hat-trick. He increased the record total to 185 goals (128 League, 12 FA Cup, 29 League Cup, 15 European comps and 1 Charity Shield) - the record was bettered by Thierry Henry in 2005.