It was Hird's first match since round 13 against the Kangaroos, the Dons ' first win since April Fools ' Day of the same year and Hird's first winning match since round 21, 2005.

With the Bombers looking towards a new era, it was announced on 27 September that Matthew Lloyd would replace James Hird as Essendon captain for the 2006 season, marking the end of Hird's reign since he took over the captaincy in 1998.

2002 then saw Hird's worst injury, an horrific facial injury sustained in a match against when he collided with teammate Mark McVeigh's knee, breaking or fracturing all but a couple of the bones in his skull ; Hird was in hospital for a week and missed several weeks of the season.

But the biggest achievement of Hird's coaching career would no doubt have to be the win over the previously undefeated ( a win by four points ) in Round 15, whom assistant coach Mark Thompson was coaching against for the first time since his infamous and controversial exit from the club which he coached for 11 years and won two premierships with.

Hird's grandfather, the late Allan Hird, Sr., was a notable player and president for the Essendon Football Club, and his father Allan Hird, Jr. had a brief playing career with Essendon.

Probably Hird's most memorable performance is universally considered to be the Round 3, 2004 game against West Coast – the game immediately following the controversy.

His coaching career started with a bang, with the Bombers making Hird's presence felt by thrashing triple preliminary finalists the in the first round.

Following Hird's retirement as a player from the Bombers at the end of the 2007 AFL season, he became a commentator and football analyst for Australian rules football on Fox Sports, a position which he held until he began his coaching career at the end of 2010.

On the occasion of his 300th umpiring appearance in 2008, McLaren described Hird's outburst as a " defining moment " in his career.

Few of Hird's friends knew how to play Australian rules, thus forcing him to play league and soccer significantly more.

A series of injuries restricted Hird's appearances during the remainder of the 1990s.

However, two days after Hird's initial comments, he announced that he had changed his mind due to the intense division and speculation over Matthew Knights's future following Hird's initial comments.

She appeared in A Kind of Loving in 1962 as Thora Hird's neighbour, as well as The Dresser in 1983, Camille in 1984, Little Dorrit in 1988 and Mary Reilly in 1996.

* Suhayl Saadi on Laura Hird's website.

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The Panthers ended up winning 12-9 on a John Kasay field goal.

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The club's first official match was played against Carlton on 7 June 1873, with Essendon winning by one goal.

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In 1976, Dalglish scored the winning goal for Scotland at Hampden Park against England, by nutmegging Ray Clemence.

Dalglish guided Liverpool to victory over Everton in the second all-Merseyside FA Cup final in 1989, winning the match 3 – 2 after extra time, but was deprived of a second Double in the final game of the season, when Arsenal secured a last-minute goal to steal the title from Liverpool.

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They won this game 20 – 17, in overtime, with Tynes scoring the winning field goal as he did four years earlier in the same game against the Packers.

However, simply winning is the basic goal, and maximizing the ' disk differential ' is regarded as ancillary.

Chargers placekicker Rolf Benirschke eventually kicked the winning 29-yard field goal after 13: 52 of overtime to help San Diego beat Miami, 41 – 38.

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The Oilers kicked a field goal late in the game to send it into overtime, but Odomes ' interception in the extra period set up kicker Steve Christie's game winning field goal to give the Bills the biggest comeback win in NFL history.

Backup QB Gale Gilbert, subbing for injured starter Humphries, led the Chargers to a come from behind 37-34 win, with John Carney kicking a game winning field goal in the game's final seconds.

A cumulation of close games, including a goal after the siren win by Daryn Cresswell in 2002, and immense and 100 + point winning margins, ensured the Swans ' rivalry was maintained with the Kangaroos in recent years.

Brett Kirk believed he had kicked the winning goal with over a minute remaining but the ball was touched on the line by North's Michael Firrito, ensuring a draw.

Increasingly the students turned to athletic stars as their heroes, especially since winning the big game became the goal of the student body, and the alumni, as well as the team itself.

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Three-time Pulitzer Prize winning, Washington Post photographer Carol Guzy was detained by police and arrested on April 15, and two journalists for the Associated Press also reported being struck by police with batons.

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After winning the Dutch Mixing Championships ( DMC ) in 1988, he was invited for The World Mix Championships in the London Royal Hall and won third place in a fierce competition.

Other highlights of that decade included the 1942 debut of Fearless Fosdick as Abner's " ideel " ( hero ); the 1946 Lena the Hyena Contest, in which a hideous Lower Slobbovian gal was ultimately revealed in the harrowing winning entry ( as judged by Frank Sinatra, Boris Karloff and Salvador Dalí ) drawn by noted cartoonist Basil Wolverton ; and an ill-fated Sunday parody of Gone With the Wind that aroused anger and legal threats from author Margaret Mitchell, and led to a printed apology within the strip.

He was in the chorus and played the tenor saxophone, winning first chair in the state band's saxophone section.

* SV — Save: number of games where the pitcher enters a game led by the pitcher's team, finishes the game without surrendering the lead, is not the winning pitcher, and either ( a ) the lead was three runs or fewer when the pitcher entered the game ; ( b ) the potential tying run was on base, at bat, or on deck ; or ( c ) the pitcher pitched three or more innings