ON THIS DAY
1964: Rugby league great Brian Bevan played his last match. He spent 17 years with Warrington before moving to Blackpool Borough. From 1946 onwards, he scored a record 796 tries. He died in 1991.
1979: Inverness Thistle and Falkirk’s Scottish FA Cup tie was finally played – after being postponed a British record 29 times because of the weather. Falkirk won the second round tie 4-0.
1991: Liverpool manager Kenny Dalglish announced his unexpected resignation after his team’s 4-4 FA Cup draw with Everton. Dalglish was to return to football a few months later, taking charge of Blackburn Rovers.
2003: Shane Warne was banned from cricket for a year – ruling him out of the World Cup – after he tested positive for banned diuretics.
2010: Former Great Britain rugby league hooker Terry Newton had his contract terminated by Wakefield after admitting using human growth hormone and was banned from all rugby for two years by UK Anti-doping. In September 2010, Newton was found hanged at his home.
2019: Chelsea were placed under a transfer ban by FIFA for two windows and fined 600,000 Swiss francs (over £460,000) for breaching rules on the international transfer and registration of players under the age of 18. The ban was later reduced to one window and the fine was halved after an appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
2020: Tyson Fury beat Deontay Wilder by seventh-round stoppage to win the WBC world heavyweight boxing championship in Las Vegas.