Of the two notable historic events in English football on this day, the one above must be regarded as best. On June 9th 1979, Kevin Keegan, with a styled bubble cut, released a single, (yes a 45 rpm) called "Head over Heels" with "Move on Down" on the flip side, which climbed the charts and levelled out at 31st in the UK and 10th in Germany...we know why the Germans loved it...he was playing for Hamburg at the time, not because the Germans have a taste in music?!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MnMskejuvc
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Kev had tried the pop charts previously in 1972, with "It ain't easy" and it wasn't, because the record "bombed out ". To celebrate his return to England he also produced an aptly named disc called "England" in 1980.
On this day in 1993, I am afraid there was another embarrassment against the USA (read about the 1950 debacle in past blog), which saw a headline in the press:
Yanks 2 Planks 0.
Yes, it happened again with the USA beating an England XI 2-0 at Foxboro Field in Boston...no tea party for Paul Ince and his mates, but it was only a friendly of sorts.
This was in the US Cup, a summer tournament, involving also Brazil and Germany. England drew with Brazil 1-1 (Platt scored) and lost 1-2 to Germany (Platt scored) at the Pontiac Silverdome Detroit, the first time an international soccer match had been played under a closed roof, on natural grass.
Having warmed up for the 1994 World Cup qualifiers, England then beat Poland 3-0, lost to Holland 0-2 and then thumped San Marino 7-1 at Wembley-remember that first goal Stuart Pearce? England did not qualify for the 1994 USA World Cup!
But then none of the Home international sides qualified either! mind you neither did France, Uruguay, Denmark, Poland, Portugal, Japan and Hungary.
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