Andy Warhol dies of heart attack, and four-goal Gary Lineker destroys Spain
This week in 1987, Andy Warhol, the controversial pop artist who turned popular images into high art, died in his sleep from a heart attack after undergoing surgery in a New York hospital. He was 58.
Wa rh o l h ad un d e rgo n e a gall bladder operation and appeared to be recovering normally, but suffered a heart attack.
Shortly before the Pennsylvania-born artist’s death, doctors expected Warhol to survive the surgery, though a re-evaluation of the case about 30 years after his death showed many indications that the surgery was in fact riskier than originally thought when considering factors such as his age, a family history of gallbladder problems, his previous gunshot wound, and his medical state in the weeks leading up to the procedure.
Back on home soil, five skinheads who carried out a racist attack on 14 members of an Asian family were sentenced to a total of 27 years at Luton Crown Court.
Fa m i l y m e m b e r s we re punched and kicked as they left a restaurant. One had paint sprayed in his face, another was pushed through the restaurant window.
“Women were crying and screaming. Men were bleeding. It was a frightening situation,” Mr Kirkit Kakad, a shopkeeper, told the court.
In sport, Gary Lineker shattered Spain for his England manager, Bobby Robson, and humbled Real Madrid for his Barcelona manager, Terry Venables, as England scored a magnificent victory in a halfempty Bernabeu stadium.
Lineker recaptured all his World Cup striking form with all of England’s four goals in a 4-2 victory over Spain, who started the game with seven Real Madrid players in their home stadium.
Elsewhere a shapeless, punchless Scotland stuttered to a depressing defeat against the Republic of Ireland at Hampden to all but end their hopes of qualifying for the European Championship.
While it could be argued that the Irish goal was fortunate to stand –Mark Lawrenson scored after a free-kick that should have been retaken – it would be much harder to tell a hard-luck story on the strength of what was a scrappy Scottish performance.