The first shirt sponsors in the Football League
The history of shirt sponsors in the Football League dates from the late 1970s. In an era when English football hit hard times financially, clubs were forced – reluctantly in most cases – to look at income sources beyond the turnstiles. The first Merseyside derby with shirt sponsors, October 1979 In the early years of…
Sheffield Wednesday v Barnsley, 1979
Barnsley faced Sheffield Wednesday in November 1979 on their first visit to Hillsborough in over 20 years. The previous game between the two in April 1959 ended in a 5-0 home win for Wednesday. The sides were meeting for the first time in the Third Division in the 1979/80 season – their opening-day encounter at…
England v Argentina, 1980
England welcomed Argentina to Wembley for a prestigious friendly in May 1980. The home team were preparing for the summer’s European Championships, their first international tournament finals since the Mexico World Cup a decade earlier. The visitors were the reigning World Champions, having triumphed on home soil two years earlier. Manager César Luis Menotti had…
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