August 9 – Bantams Break Bank for Benito as Dublin Strikes

Bradford in West Yorkshire’s second early 2000s ‘living the dream’ saga and Dion Dublin gets his bouncebackability on in today’s trawl through the OTFD achieves.

2000 – Carbone Joins the Bantams

WHEN Bradford City went into administration in the summer of 2002 many blamed the fact that they were still paying some players Premiership wages, despite having been relegated to what was then the First Division.

The chief culprit was seen to be Italian striker Benito Carbone, who was earning a reported £40,000 a week at the Yorkshire club.

It was on this day in 2000 that the Bantams signed Carbone in a deal that was to become symbolic of smaller clubs trying to live beyond their means by signing big-name players that they could ill afford. Read the rest here.

1998 – Ding Dong Dion

WHEN Glenn Hoddle trimmed down his 1998 World Cup squad, he famously left out Paul Gascoigne, who proceeded to smash up Hoddle’s hotel room, breaking chairs, lamps and injuring his foot in the process. Needless to say, he took the news pretty badly and his career never really recovered.

Another man that didn’t make the final cut was then-Coventry City striker Dion Dublin, but he dealt with his disappointment with in a slightly more composed manner. Today in 1998 he got back to work, scoring a hat-trick in Coventry City’s opening day win over Chelsea. Click here to read on.