Things have got so bad at Liverpool these days there was actual excitement over the signing of a 29-year-old James Milner on a long-term £150,000 a week contract.
Reds are often accused of living in the past and you can’t really blame them when you consider how good they were in the 1980s.
Although they overcame better sides, double figures in English football is rare, but that’s what they did to Fulham 29 years ago today.
Steve McMahon missed a penalty but made up with it by netting four times. Ian Rush got a couple, as did John Wark, while Ronnie Whelan and Steve Nicol also notched – 10-0! Current boss Brendan Rodgers would take 1-0 over, er, just about anyone.
1926: The largest crowd ever for a boxing match – 120,757 – gathered to watch Gene Tunney and Jack Dempsey’s heavyweight clash at the Sesquicentennial Stadium in Philadelphia
2010: Boxer Ricky Hatton’s licence was withdrawn by the British Boxing Board of Control after they laid charges of ‘’bringing boxing into disrepute arising out of incidents of alcohol and drug abuse”
2012: Former England captain John Terry retired from international football.
