ON THIS DAY
1973: Bobby Moore bowed out of international football after making his 108th appearance for England against Italy at Wembley in a 1-0 defeat.
2000: Manchester United had six players nominated for the European Footballer of the Year award: Fabien Barthez, Roy Keane, Ryan Giggs, Jaap Stam, Paul Scholes and David Beckham. Portugal star Luis Figo pipped them all.
2006: England batsman Marcus Trescothick returned from the Ashes tour of Australia before the first Test because of a recurrence of a stress-related illness. Trescothick had left the tour to India with a similar problem earlier in the year. 2006: Yorkshire announced that Chris Adams had decided to stay at Sussex, despite having signed a four-year contract as director of cricket at Headingley a fortnight earlier.
2010: Sebastian Vettel secured the Formula One drivers’ championship by winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix.
2013: Sachin Tendulkar took to the field for his 200th and final Test match against the West Indies in Mumbai and ended the day 38 not out. He eventually went on to make 74 in what would prove to be his last international innings.
2016: Yorkshire appointed Andrew Gale as Jason Gillespie’s successor as first-team coach, a decision that marked the end of the 32-year-old Yorkshire captain’s playing career.
2021: Bertie Auld, one of Celtic’s European Cup heroes, died at the age of 83.