On This Day (18th Jan)

[Trigger]

Todays time machine takes us back 21 whole years and to yet another six goal thriller involving The Albion in the old Division Two.


Results - 18-01-1986

English Division 1 (old)
Birmingham 0-2 Everton
Coventry 0-2 Watford
Leicester 2-2 Arsenal
Liverpool 3-1 West Ham
Luton 2-0 Aston Villa
Man Utd 2-3 Nottm Forest
QPR 3-1 Newcastle
Sheff Wed 2-1 Oxford
Southampton 1-0 Ipswich
Tottenham 0-2 Man City
West Brom 0-3 Chelsea

English Division 2
Brighton 3-3 Middlesbro
Carlisle 2-1 Blackburn
Charlton 4-0 Leeds
Fulham 2-0 Barnsley
Huddersfield 0-0 C Palace
Hull City 4-2 Oldham
Wimbledon 3-0 Grimsby
Norwich 2-0 Portsmouth
Shrewsbury 3-1 Sheff Utd
Stoke 3-1 Bradford
Sunderland 1-2 Millwall

English Division 3
Blackpool 0-0 Reading
Bournemouth 1-1 Derby
Bristol R 3-1 Darlington
Bury 1-1 Chesterfield
Cardiff 1-3 Notts Co
Doncaster 1-1 Newport County
Gillingham 2-0 Lincoln
Plymouth 2-2 York
Rotherham 4-0 Bolton
Walsall 2-1 Bristol C
Wigan 5-0 Swansea
Wolves 1-4 Brentford

English Division 4
Aldershot 2-1 Rochdale
Hartlepool 2-1 Cambridge
Hereford 4-2 Mansfield
Northampton 2-0 Burnley
Peterborough 1-1 Preston
Southend 0-1 Crewe
Torquay 1-0 Scunthorpe
Wrexham 0-1 Swindon


As always, exciting stuff...

 

[Brovion]

Didn't Middlesborough equalise in the very last minute? Bernie Slaven I think it was. No, that CAN'T have been 21 years ago ...

 

[graz126]

Oxford utd in top flight football. how quickly things change.

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Oxford utd in top flight football. how quickly things change.

The year they won the Milk Cup, but were barred from entering Europe, due to the Liverpool 'angels'.

 

[Simster]

I was there. Funnily enough, the Boro bus was the exact same bus that had taken me on a school trip to Germany about 6 months beforehand. Strange world.

 

[Zesh Rehman]

Aldershot 2-1 Rochdale - Exciting stuff !!!

and Oxford were in the top league, i knew it !!!

 

[Fourteenth Eye]

That was the game that John Keeley played pissed after Digweed got injured in the warm up!!!!

 

[Elms]

On this day, 1979....

Elms was born!