Manchester United were humbled 5-3 by Leicester City on Sunday after being 2-0 and 3-1 up…
On Sunday, Manchester United were beated 5-3 by Leicester City, despite being 2-0 and 3-1 ahead. It’s the first time in Premier League history, and the first time since December 1984 that United have let a two goal lead result in defeat in a domestic league game.
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Here are ten facts – via the Daily Mail – of the time when Ron Atkinson’s Red Devils were beaten by Nottingham Forest. United were 2-0 ahead before losing 3-2 thirty years ago. Gordan Stachan scored a brace against the team led by Brian Clough.
10) British group Frankie Goes to Hollywood claimed the UK chart’s No 1 spot with iconic hit The Power of Love taken from the debut studio album Welcome to the Pleasuredome.
9) Other acts making up the UK Chart’s top 10 in December 1984 included Madonna, Wham!, Shakin’ Stevens and Paul McCartney before huge Christmas hit Do They Know It’s Christmas by the Band Aid collective claimed the festive No 1 spot for five weeks.
8) The week of December 8 also saw Eddie Murphy’s film series Beverly Hills Cop begin with a blockuster release of the police detective comedy.
7) Margaret Thatcher was midway though her tenure as the Prime Minister and was battling the coal mining unions as she took charge at No 10 between 1975 and 1990.
6) Sir Bobby Robson was in charge of the England national team after being appointed as Three Lions boss in 1982. The former manager led England to the 1986 and 1990 World Cup finals as well as the European Championships in 1988.
5) Robin van Persie was the only player in United’s starting line-up against Leicester on Sunday to have been born before 1984 while unused substitute Darren Fletcher would have been just 10 months old when Ron Atkinson’s side fell to Clough’s Forest.
4) Elsewhere that year, the first Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comic book went on sale in 1984. The pizza-eating, crime-fighting ninjas were created by artists Peter Laird and Kevin Eastman, who began a tiny publishing company out of Laird’s living room.
3) Russian programmer Alexey Pajitnov released the first version of Tetris in June. The game featured seven tetrominos descending from the top of the screen, to form a sort of jigsaw-puzzle stack at the bottom.
2) On September 20, 1984, America tuned in to see the Huxtable family in Brooklyn. The Cosby Show was a massive hit, revitalizing the sitcom genre and introducing all of us to Cosby sweaters.
1) The following famous people were born: Kid Cudi (Jan 30), Olivia Wilde (Mar 10), Sarah Jean Underwood (Mar 26), Mandy Moore (Apr 10), America Ferrera (Apr 18), Mark Zuckerberg (May 14), Aubrey Plaza (Jun 26), Prince Harry (Sep 15), Randall Munroe (Oct 17), Katy Perry (Oct 25), Scarlett Johansson (Nov 22), Trey Songz (Nov 24), and LeBron James (Dec 30).
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