Cup winners Liverpool and Real Madrid make the headlines
Liverpool legend Ian Rush scores twice for the Reds to beat neighbours Everton in the FA Cup final 31 years ago.
Nine years later Real Madrid down Juventus to win the European Cup for the first time in 32 years.
May 20 1989: Liverpool’s John Aldridge scores in the fourth minute of the FA Cup final against Merseyside rivals Everton at Wembley Stadium.
Stuart McCall equalised twice for Everton, but Ian Rush’s brace — his second in three years against the Toffees in an FA Cup final — earned Liverpool a 3-2 victory after extra time.
The match was played five
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weeks after the Hillsborough disaster, in which 96 Liverpool fans were killed in a crush.
May 20 1998: Real Madrid’s Christian Panucci and Manuel Sanchis celebrate winning the club’s first European Cup in 32 years after a 1-0 victory against Juventus in Amsterdam.
Juventus, playing their third successive final, came unstuck as Real forward Predrag Mijatovic scored the only goal of the game to seal the Spanish side’s seventh European Cup.
Sanchis made 710 appearances for Real — a record since broken by Raul and Iker Casillas — before retiring in 2001.
May 20 2000: Red Bullet, ridden by Jerry Bailey, wins the 125th Preakness Stakes in Baltimore, Maryland. Fusaichi
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Pegasus finishes second ahead of Impeachment.
Red Bullet got off to a slow start but picked up the pace as the race progressed, eventually finishing three and three-quarter lengths ahead of odds-on favourite and Kentucky Derby winner Fusaichi Pegasus. The win was Red Bullet’s fourth in five starts and he became the first winner of the Preakness Stakes not to have started in the Kentucky Derby since 1983.
May 20 2001: Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier holds up the Uefa Cup trophy during a parade in the city after the Merseyside club’s 5-4 victory over Alaves thanks to a Golden Goal in the final.
Houllier’s side not only completed an unprecedented treble of cup wins by an English club after lifting the League Cup and FA Cup, but they also won their first European trophy since 1984 — the year an English club last won this trophy.
The match — the highestscoring European final since Real Madrid defeated Eintracht
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Frankfurt 7-3 in the 1960 European Cup final — also recalled a bygone era when teams scored almost at will and entertainment was the keyword.
May 20 2001: PSV Eindhoven striker Ruud van Nistelrooy plays his last game for the club. The Dutch striker went on to sign for Manchester United for a British transfer record fee of £19m, a year after his deal with the English champions collapsed because of a failed medical.
Van Nistelrooy eventually proved to be a roaring success at United, scoring 150 goals across five seasons at Old Trafford.
May 20 2006: America’s Cup defender Alinghi and challengers Emirates Team New Zealand, BMW Oracle Racing and China Team race upwind on
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the third flight of their fleet race during the second day of Louis Vuitton Act 11 in Valencia.
Acts were a series of races held in the lead up to the Louis Vuitton Cup, which served as a qualification event for the prestigious America’s Cup.
Act 11 consisted of five fleet races, three of which were won by Alinghi, who topped the leader board ahead of second-placed Luna Rossa.
May 20 2006: Munster celebrate winning their first Heineken Cup with a 23-19 victory against Biarritz at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff.
Munster, finalists in 2000 and 2002, burst into life after Biarritz winger Sireli Bobo’s early try to take a 17-10 lead into the break. Biarritz reduced the
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arrears to a single point with 10 minutes to play, but a 74thminute penalty from Ronan O’Gara sealed the French champions’ fate.
May 20 2009: Orlando Magic centre Dwight Howard knocks the 24-second clock off the backboard with a ferocious dunk during his side’s 107-106 victory against Cleveland Cavaliers in Game 1 of their Eastern Conference final playoff game.
The Magic rallied from a 15point deficit at halftime to hand the Cavaliers their first loss of the post-season on the back of Howard’s 30-point effort. Orlando stunned Cleveland in six games to reach the NBA Finals where they were defeated 4-1 by the Los Angeles Lakers.
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