ON THIS DAY English cricket mourned the deaths of Jim Laker (in 1986) and then Denis Compton (1997)

ON THIS DAY in 1946 Walter Winterbottom was appointed as first manager of the England team

ON THIS DAY in 1974 Arsenal mourned the death of legendary 1930s captain Eddie Hapgood

ON THIS DAY in 2010 the Olympic movement mourned the death of ex-IOC president Juan Antonio Samaranch

ON THIS DAY in 1920 what proved the first inter-war Olympics opened in Antwerp

ON THIS DAY n 1954 Trevor Francis, Britain's first £1m footballer, was born (dd 2023)

RIP Bernd Holzeinbein at 78, who won the equalising penalty against Netherlands in West Germany's 1974 World Cup Final triumph

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, at 64, to 1990 West German World Cup winning winger Pierre Littbarski

ON THIS DAY in 2013 three people were killed and 260 injured in a bomb attack on the Boston Marathon

THIS DAY in 1989 saw the Hillsborough disaster which brought the deaths of 97 Liverpool football fans and more than 700 injuries.

ON THIS DAY in 2001 Scottish football mourned the death, at 61, of Rangers’ hero ‘Slim Jim’ Baxter

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ON THIS DAY Joachim Streich, former top scoring centre-forward of East Germany, was born (dd 2022)

ON THIS DAY in 1980 the United States confirmed its boycott of Moscow Olympics

ON THIS DAY in 1941 England World Cup winning captain Bobby Moore was born (died 1993)

Premier League clubs have agreed unanimously to introduce Semi-Automated Offside Technology next season.

ON THIS DAY IN 2005 Frenchman Lucient Laurent, scorer of the first World Cup goal, died aged 97

De Coubertin would be spinning in his grave as World Athletics decides to pay prize money to Games gold medallists . . . keirradnedge.com/2024/04/10/gol…

ON THIS DAY in 1896 Spiridon Louis won the first marathon of the modern Olympics

ON THIS DAY in 1906 an unofficial Olympic Games was opened in Athens.