A Manchester United and Ipswich Town football match was played at Old Trafford (pictured), Manchester, in March 1995 as part of the 1994–95 FA Premier League. It finished in a 9–0 victory for the home team. The result is a joint record for the largest winning margin in the Premier League, later equalled by three other matches with the same scoreline in 2019, in 2021 and in 2022. Manchester United and Ipswich Town went into the match at opposite ends of the table; United were second, while Ipswich were second-last. In the corresponding fixture at Ipswich's Portman Road in September 1994, they beat United 3–2. United were missing Eric Cantona, who was on a nine-month suspension, and their attacking partnership of Andy Cole and Mark Hughes was not well regarded by pundits. Ipswich's victory at Portman Road proved to be the more significant result with regard to the final placings, as United missed out on the title by one point.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_United_F.C._9%E2%80%930_Ipswich_Town_F.C.> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1858: French composer Jacques Offenbach's operetta Orpheus in the Underworld, featuring the music most associated with the can-can (audio featured), was first performed at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpheus_in_the_Underworld> 1910: HMS Niobe arrived in Halifax Harbour to become the first large ship of the Royal Canadian Navy. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Niobe_%281897%29> 1959: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, opened in New York City. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_R._Guggenheim_Museum> 1994: North Korea and the United States signed the Agreed Framework to limit the former's nuclear weapons program and to normalize relations between the two countries. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agreed_Framework> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: downright: 1. (figurative) 2. Completely, wholly. 3. (archaic) Of acts or speech: directly and unambiguously; clearly, plainly. 4. (obsolete) 5. Straight down; perpendicularly. 6. (figurative) Immediately at that place and time; without delay; altogether, at once, then and there. [...] <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/downright> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness. --Ursula K. Le Guin <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_K._Le_Guin> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe write to: [email protected] Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
