One of the greatest FA Cup comebacks ever...
It could be argued that this game could only have occurred between these two sides, such is their penchant for out-of-the-ordinary football occurrences. Though Newcastle may feel a bit left out. Nonetheless today in 2004 saw Manchester City travel to White Hart Lane following a 1-1 draw in their original fourth round tie. At 3-0 down, with Anelka off injured and Joey Barton sent off, you'd think it was going to be a miserable day all round for City. Guess again.
When Jon Makin scored with practically the last kick of the game, he made the score 4-3. In charge of City at the time? Kevin Keegan of course. But it wasn't a totally miserable day for Spurs, as they paraded new signing Jermain Defoe before kick off. Where've we seen that before...
Big days today in the 18th Century, where in 1794 in France, slavery was abolished in the territories of the French Republic, while five years earlier George Washington was voted in unainmously to become the first President of the USA. While Yugoslavia was renamed Serbia and Montenegro in 2003, forming a confederation of states and significantly weakening their national football side in the process. They just don’t think of these important things do they?
And we say Aruna Dindane! as they say in the Ivory Coast to former soap star-turned-one-hit-wonder Natalie Imbruglia (b.1975), boxer Oscar ‘great pins’ de la Hoya (b.1973) and part-time rocker, full-time golf nut, Alice Cooper (b.1948).
