ON THIS DAY

I guess that nearly all of us have dreamed of making the national news in a footballing story but I'm equally sure nearly all of us will have suffered the disappointment of one day realising that just wasn't going to happen. If that is the case you might find this story a tad hard to take. Georgia Wilson was born on Tuesday 27th September 2022 and within hours of being born she was that star of a footballing story which made the national headlines. Yep, really! Her dad Sean was a Manchester United supporter while granddad Andy supported Blackburn Rovers. To help Georgia 'grow up properly' and not have to suffer too much of Manchester United granddad Alex bought her a Blackburn Rovers season ticket later in the day she was born. OK, she hadn't scored the winning goal in an FA Cup final but becoming the world's youngest season ticket holder most definitely saw her hit the national footballing headlines on the day she was born! Mind you Andy was no stranger to breaking footballing world records - he held the world record for the furthest distance walking around a football pitch with a lawnmower in a 24 hour period!

We woke up to find England manager Sam Allardyce making front page headlines in the Daily Telegraph . In a newspaper 'sting' he had been filmed advising undercover reporters how to get around FA rules on third-party ownership of footballers, criticising his predecessor Roy Hodgson and the England players and arranging a £400,000 a year speaking engagement contract. By the end of the day by 'mutual consent' he was the ex-England manager losing his £3 million a year job after just 67 days. Mind you, with an England record of played one and won one that made him statistically the best England manager of all time!

Following their much-criticized move from South London Wimbledon played their first ‘home’ League match at the National Hockey Stadium in Milton Keynes, drawing 2-2 with Burnley. They didn’t change their name to MK Dons until the start of the 2004/05 season.