ON THIS DAY

England had a dismal time at the 2014 World Cup finals in Brazil and when they played their first match after the finals - a friendly against Norway at Wembley - the fans showed their displeasure when just 40,181 turned up. That was a new low for an England crowd at the revamped stadium - but things were as bad on television. ITV showed the game live and it was up against the Great British Bake Off on BBC. Nearly twice as many people watched the Bake Off! The newly-appointed England captain Wayne Rooney scored the only goal from the penalty spot.

After Arsenal had played just one Premier League match at the Emirates Brazil played their first ‘home’ match at the ground, beating Argentina 3-0. In future years Brazil regularly played in their adopted home in North London.

Wolves were renown goalscorers in the 1950s but nobody expected the headlines they made when visiting Cardiff City in a First Division match on 3rd September 1955. Johnny Hancocks scored for Wolves in just 30 seconds and he went on to score a hat-trick as did Roy Swinbourne. Further goals from Peter Broadbent (2) and Jimmy Mullen gave Wolves a 9-1 victory at Ninian Park before 40,060 fans with those nine goals equalling the record for a top flight away score, a record that still stands to this day. Amazingly when Cardiff visited Molineux for the return fixture on December 31st the Welshmen won 2-0 - that was the first home defeat suffered by Wolves that season and at the time of that loss against Cardiff their 9-1 win in Cardiff was the only time Wolves had won away that season.