In this blog series – “What Happened Today”, we are going to revive some of the moments from past which will revive moments of the golden history of the league.
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Headlines on Thursday covered Wednesday night fixtures between 8 premier league teams.
Arsenal 2 Oldham Athletic 0 Chelsea 0 Blackburn Rovers 0 Coventry City 0 Queens Park Rangers 1 Manchester City 3 Norwich City 1
QUEENS Park Rangers veteran midfielder Ray Wilkins directed his young team-mates to beat Coventry City and replace Coventry City at the top of English Premier League ( Video of goal below ) .Coventry’s reign at the top lasted only four days after winning their three opening games.
Mick Harford ( Photo below) produced a candidate for the miss of the season award as Chelsea was held to a goalless draw with Blackburn Rovers. Andy Townsend pushed a short free kick to Robert Fleck whose instant shot deflected to Harford six yards out. With goalkeeper Bobby Minuns grounded only a simple side foot shot was required but Harford somehow managed to scoop the ball over.
In other interesting headlines on this date, Football Association gave Everton clearance to play Yugoslavian ( Serbian American ) midfielder Predrag Radosavljević ( Preki ) ( Photo below) , enabling the talented midfielder to finally play for Howard Kendall’s team. Signing was interesting for 2 reasons –
- He is the only man to play in the inaugural season of both the Premier League and Major League Soccer.
- He wasn’t signed from MLS, or USL, or even one of those brilliantly named college teams, but rather from an indoor soccerteam.
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Premier League Fans – As we promised, our vision of Premier League Museum portal is to restore the rich history of English Premier League. We want to keep alive every moment which made up the rich , entertaining and best league in the world today. How do you find our website www.premierleaguemuseum.com and podcast EPL 24×7 on youtube so far.. Please provide your feedback or comments on the youtube channel or website.
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