September 21 – England Lose, a Habit is Born and Keown Gets Ruud

Arsenal players upsetting the establishment and an historic England loss. Business as usual then for today’s round up from the OTFD vaults…

1949 – England Lose, a Habit is Born

THE English have made something of a habit of inventing new sports, enjoying a short period of dominance, and then watching helplessly as other nations proceed to get much better at it than them. Today in 1949 was the day that very scenario happened with football. Find out what happened here.

2003 – Keown Gets Ruud

“I rang my wife after the game. She’s usually very supportive, but she said: ‘I think you’ve gone and done it now…’” Find out what the Arsenal centre-back was up to here.

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