1902: - Norwich City played their first-ever competitive match when they played Harwich & Parkeston at Newmarket Road.
1913: - Arsenal played their first match at Highbury and beat Leicester Fosse 2-1. They had moved from Plumstead during the close season and also dropped “Woolwich” from their title.
1923: - The tall inside forward Jack Elkes moved from Southampton to Tottenham Hotspur, where he spent 6 years.
1930: - Aston Villa’s centre-forward Tom Waring scored 4 goals for the second successive home match, when he hit four against West Ham United.
1965: - Len Allchurch, the younger brother of Ivor, transferred to Stockport County from Sheffield United.
1992: - Hereford United had a league record number of players sent-off when four of their players were sent off during their 1-1 draw with Northampton Town in Division Three. In the extraordinary match both goals were scored in the last 18 minutes.
1993: - UEFA expelled the Champions League winners Olympique de Marseille from the competition for a year after deciding there was sufficient evidence to prove bribery allegations.
1995: - Armenia recorded their first ever win in a competitive international, after they beat FYR Macedonia 2-1 in a 1996 UEFA European Championship qualifier.
1997: - All major football matches were cancelled as a mark of respect for Princess Diana, on the day of her funeral.
1998: - It was reported that BskyB had big £575 million to buy Manchester United.
2004: - Graeme Souness was confirmed as Newcastle United manager.
2006: - The Argentinean club Arsenal de Sarandi and the Spanish club FC Barcelona had struck a deal whereby in exchange for the option to acquire young players that had not played more than one year in the Arsenal first team, FC Barcelona would help to improve Arsenal’s infrastructure. However the deal fell through in 2007 after Arsenal couldn’t afford the infrastructure to keep up with the plan.
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