THOSE WERE THE DAYS
ON THIS DATE IN SPORTING HISTORY
1869: Ernest Michaux of France won the first international cycle race, held at Crystal Palace. 1962: Accrington Stanley were forced to withdraw from the Football League with 13 matches left due to financial problems.
1971: American-born driver Mario Andretti claimed the first of his 12 grand prix wins, for Ferrari in South Africa. 1976: Wilfredo Benitez of Puerto Rico became the youngest world boxing champion aged 17 years and 176 days when he beat Antonio Cervantes to win the WBA junior-welterweight title in San Juan.
2004: World champions England lost 19-13 to Ireland to end a 22-game home unbeaten run.
2006: Sunderland sacked manager Mick McCarthy, with the club bottom of the Barclays Premier League. 2008: England head coach Brian Ashton axed Danny Cipriani from his team to play Scotland for disciplinary reasons after the 20-year-old was photographed leaving a London nightclub at around 12.30am.
2015: Katarina Johnson-Thompson won gold and took the British record in the pentathlon at the athletics European Indoors in Prague. 2016: Bradley Wiggins and Mark Cavendish won the Madison at the Track Cycling World Championships in London.
MANCHESTER City’s squad depth is likely to impact more as the season goes on despite them fighting on four fronts.
Against a United side starting to look a touch ragged around the edges, that could show at the Etihad tomorrow.
Layers rarely give much away with City but to win by more than one goal on the handicap is 7-5, which looks fair. Burnley