On this day in 1999, nineteen-year-old Robbie Keane became the then most expensive teenager in British football, completing a £6million move from Wolves to Coventry.
Keane was hot property at the time and joined Gordon Strachan’s Coventry revolution that included Gary McAllister, Mustapha Hadji and Youssef Chippo.
In his debut Premier League season, the Irishman scored 12 goals in total.
He would only last a season at Coventry though, eventually moving to Serie A giants Inter Milan the following year for £13m.
1953: England recaptured the Ashes at the Oval after a gap of 19 years. Denis Compton hit the decisive stroke to give Len Hutton’s team an eight-wicket victory in the fifth and final Test, the only win after four drawn matches in the series.
2001: Ferrari ace Michael Schumacher was crowned world champion for the fourth time, after winning the Hungarian Grand Prix in Budapest.
2004: Leslie Law won individual silver for Great Britain at the Olympic three-day eventing competition in Athens. He was later upgraded to gold after Germany’s Bettina Hoy lost an appeal against a 12-point penalty.
2005: Chelsea paid £24.4million to sign Ghana midfielder Michael Essien from Lyon.
