ON THIS DAY

The biggest news in world sport that day came from the Community Stadium in Brighton although the storyline wasn't generated by the football club who played there. Brighton & Hove's home ground was used for a couple of matches in the 2015 Rugby Union World Cup finals and in the first of those Japan played South Africa. In a result that was widely described as the biggest shock in the history of the game the minnows of Japan beat the mighty Springboks 34-32. Amazingly though the Japanese were to create another bit of World Cup history - they became the first side ever to win 3 of their 4 group matches but fail to progress to the knockout stages of the competition.

The world of football was shocked by the news that the ‘Special One’ was leaving Chelsea. Increasing tensions between club owner Roman Abramovich and manager José Mourinho came to a head after an unimpressive start to the new season, Mourinho ending his first stint at Stamford Bridge ‘by mutual consent’. He was back at the club in 2013.

When Bobby Robson made his home debut as manager of Newcastle United things were bleak for the Magpies - only one point from their first seven Premier League matches of the season and no win at St James' Park since February. But Newcastle beat Sheffield Wednesday 8-0 with Alan Shearer scoring 5 of them - a perfect start or what!

The first match was played in one of the major stadiums in Europe, the San Siro in Milan. Originally solely the home of AC Milan they played a friendly against great rivals Inter Milan in the first match at the ground on 19th September 1926. Inter won with a very un-Italian scoreline – 6-3. In 1947 Inter moved in to share the ground with AC Milan while in March 1980 the stadium was officially renamed the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza in honour of a former player of both Milan clubs – although it is still generally known as the San Siro. It currently has a capacity of 80,000 and has hosted matches at the 1934 and 1990 World Cup finals as well as numerous European finals.