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1999:

Manchester United’s historic treble in 1999 confirmed the team as the greatest of the Premier League era.

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1994:

Michael Schumacher is statistically the greatest driver in the history of Formula 1.

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1986:

It had been six years since Jack Nicklaus had won a Major title and at 46 nobody expected him to win another.

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1985:

It took snooker a little more than a century to evolve into a national obsession.

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1982:

Darts has a longer association with drinking than you might think.

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1981:

John McEnroe’s outbursts during the Wimbledon Championships sealed his reputation as the enfant terrible of tennis.

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1996:

David Beckham rose from a gifted youth player at Manchester United to become the poster boy of worldwide football .

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1993:

Shane Warne delivered the “ball of the century” to a dumbstruck Mike Gatting at Old Trafford in June 1993.

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1986:

Four minutes apart, at the Azteca Stadium in 1986, Diego Maradona scored two of the most memorable goals of all time.

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1983:

Politics and sport have often collided with explosive results.

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1981:

“It was the summer of summers for England,” said cricket commentator Richie Benaud of “Botham’s Ashes” series.

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1980:

Sebastian Coe’s 1500m triumph at the 1980 Olympics was redemption for losing the 800m final to his rival Steve Ovett.

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1977:

Red Rum was, and still is, Britain’s most famous horse.

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1976:

Gymnastics is among the oldest Olympic sports and was one of the few sports reintroduced when the Games were revived.

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1974:

The British Lions have toured the southern hemisphere for almost 120 years.

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1971:

When a blunt Yorkshire farmer thrust a V-sign at showjumping judges it caused a national scandal.

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1970:

British golfers have a tradition of success in the Majors and have produced some of the world’s greatest champions.

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1968:

In sport, no one remembers who finishes second. If only that were true for sport’s greatest chokers.

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