BEST AND OLE TOFFEE

On January 7th 1970 George Best was in his prime and he went to Northampton Town's County Ground for an FA Cup fifth round tie against the Cobblers helping United to an 8-2 victory. Best scored 6 and Town's Kim Book said "not even the Berlin Wall would have stopped him...."
Ray Fairfax found that the "closest he got to Best was when they shook hands at the end". Mind you the goalie had a bit of nightmare...goals 2, 3 and 6.
https://uk.video.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?fr=yhs-adk-adk_sbnt&hsimp=yhs-adk_sbnt&hspart=adk&p=gEORGE+BEST+V+nORTHAMPTON+tOWN#id=1&vid=f79c8e2c4dfb1fd2183a221ba2cc4bfe&action=click

On the 6th February 1999 Manchester United, top of the Premier League visited Nottingham Forest, bottom of the League, at the City Ground and came away with a thumping 8-1 win. It was the 41st Anniversary of the Munich Air Crash and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer made a mark by scoring 4 goals in 10 minutes, having come on for Roy Keane after 72 minutes. By then United were already 4 up and Forest were "cut down". Yorke and Cole had scored a brace each by the time the baby faced assassin turned up. here's Ole (bit younger) and his missus, Silsje.


Here's one for you, not date related...
Everton got to the FA Cup Final without conceding a goal in 1966:
the Toffees beat Sunderland 3rd Round 3-0, Bedford Town 3-0 4th Rd, Coventry City 3-0 5th Rd, Man City 0-0, 0-0, 2-0 6th Rd and Man Utd 1-0 SF. and what happened in the final? (Sheffield Wednesday lost 0-2!)
The Radio Times 14th May 1966!