SPORTS TRIVIA

ON THIS DAY

1998: With Manchester United 11 points ahead of Arsenal, who had two away games in hand, one Manchester bookmaker paid out on United to take the Premier League title. However, Arsenal then recorded ten wins in a row to become champions.

BIRTHDAYS

Football’s Harry Redknapp – former West Ham, Portsmouth, Southampton, Tottenham, QPR and Birmingham manager, 1947, and

Mauricio Pochettino – Chelsea’s former Spurs and Paris St Germain manager, 1972; Golf’s Ian Woosnam – former Ryder Cup captain and winner of 1991 US Masters, 1958; Cricket’s Sir Andrew Strauss – former England Test captain and Middlesex opening batsman, 1977, and Chris Woakes – Warwickshire and England allrounder, 1989; and American Football’s Ben Roethlisberger – former Pittsburgh Steelers’ Super Bowl-winning quarterback, 1982.

QUIZ

1 Who was the last non-European driver to win the Formula One world title?

2 Britain’s Olympic skateboarding medallist Sky Brown is trying to qualify for this year’s Paris Games in which other sport?

3 With which athletics event would you associate the 1990s world champions Dan O’Brien and Tomas Dvorak?

4 Name the two UK horse racing venues beginning with the letter M.

5 Which Scottish League football club plays home matches at the Balmoral Stadium in Aberdeen?

SNOOKER: Joe O’Connor produced a milestone break during Thursday’s Championship League matches as he made the 200th official 147 in history.

It was the first maximum of the 28-year-old’s career, with his previous top break being 143. He went on to beat Elliot Slessor 3-2.

It was the 11th 147 of the 2023-24 season. Six- time world champion Steve Davis scored the first ever in 1982.