Coventry City win the first major trophy in their history by defeating Tottenham Hotspur (who were unbeaten in their previous seven finals) 3-2 in the FA Cup final. Harry Catterick, who managed Everton to league title glory in 1963 and 1970 as well as an FA Cup triumph in 1966, died from a heart attack while watching their FA Cup quarter-final win over Ipswich Town at Goodison Park. He was replaced by Ipswich Town manager Bobby Robson. Mansfield Town and Port Vale took the two remaining promotion spaces. Luton Town win the first major trophy in their history by defeating Arsenal 3-2 in the League Cup final. Everton established themselves as one of the strongest club sides in Europe after winning the league championship with four matches to spare and adding the Cup Winners' Cup to their trophy cabinet. Nottingham Forest ended their nine-year wait for a major trophy by winning the Football League Cup. Oxford United were promoted to the top flight after claiming the Second Division championship, just a year after winning the Third Division championship in 1984, becoming the only club to have won two consecutive championships on the way to the top flight. Oxford United survived their first season in the First Division and also won the Football League Cup.

Liverpool were forced to play their first few games of the season away from home after a sewer collapsed below the Spion Kop terrace. A 14-year-old boy was crushed to death by a collapsed wall when Leeds United fans rioted during the last game of the Second Division season at Birmingham City, but media coverage and public attention of the tragedy were overshadowed as it occurred on the same afternoon as the Bradford City fire. Anton Johnson was banned from football for life after it was revealed that he had illegally taken control of two football clubs (Southend United and Rotherham United) at the same time and had also mishandled the finances of both clubs. Preston North End and Burnley were both relegated to the Fourth Division for the first time. Swindon Town, Fourth Division champions, set a new Football League record of 102 points. Everton win their ninth league title despite adversity, struggling with massive injuries all season but still managing to win the league by 11 clear points.

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Ian Rush returned to Liverpool after an unsuccessful season at Juventus in Italy for £2.8 million-the third time in the space of a few weeks that the record fee paid by an English club was broken. Mark Hughes returned to Manchester United after two years away for a fee of £1.8 million. 13 December: Brian Laws leaves Championship strugglers Sheffield Wednesday after three years as manager. He had won the European Cup just three months after being appointed. The channel was launched on 15 November 2006. The channel was initially slated to be named Al Jazeera International, but the name was changed nine months before the launch. Sir Stanley Rous, connor bedard breaking news one of the Football Association's most prominent administrators, died at the age of 90. Shortly after his death, a stand at Watford's Vicarage Road stadium was named in his honor. 56 spectators were burned to death and more than 200 were injured in a fire at Bradford City's Valley Parade stadium on 11 May. At the start of the school year in September 1968, the UFT held a strike that shut down New York City's public schools for nearly two months, leaving a million students without schools to attend.