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Nottingham Forest F.C. 1–8 Manchester United F.C.
The 1998–99 season match between Nottingham Forest and Manchester United at the City Ground took place on 6 February 1999. Manchester United won the match 8–1, thereby recording the largest away win in the history of the Premier League until Leicester City's 9–0 victory at Southampton 20 years later. Substitute Ole Gunnar Solskjær scored four of Manchester United's eight goals, setting a record for the most Premier League goals scored by a substitute in one match. Background Manchester United began the month of February on top of the Premier League by one point after beating Charlton Athletic 1–0 away on 31 January to overtake Chelsea, who had lost away to Arsenal by the same margin the previous day. Another 1–0 win over Derby County on 3 February extended United's lead to four points going into the weekend of 6 February 1999. Despite a 1–0 win away to Everton on 30 January – their first since August 1998 – Nottingham Forest went into the weekend bottom of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
City Ground, Nottingham - Geograph
A city is a human settlement of notable size.Goodall, B. (1987) ''The Penguin Dictionary of Human Geography''. London: Penguin.Kuper, A. and Kuper, J., eds (1996) ''The Social Science Encyclopedia''. 2nd edition. London: Routledge. It can be defined as a permanent and densely settled place with administratively defined boundaries whose members work primarily on non-agricultural tasks. Cities generally have extensive systems for housing, transportation, sanitation, utilities, land use, production of goods, and communication. Their density facilitates interaction between people, government organisations and businesses, sometimes benefiting different parties in the process, such as improving efficiency of goods and service distribution. Historically, city-dwellers have been a small proportion of humanity overall, but following two centuries of unprecedented and rapid urbanization, more than half of the world population now lives in cities, which has had profound consequences for g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
