[permalink] [id link]
The Manchester Giants opened the 1995-96 season in front of a record 14, 251 fans at the NYNEX Arena against the London Leopards-a record crowd that stood for a basketball game until 2006 when the NBA started staging pre-season games at the O2.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
Manchester and Giants
This bandwagon appeal has been compared with the marketability of the New York Yankees and Manchester United, except that support for the Giants nearly exceeds 50 % of those polled, while in the United States and England, support is judged to be between 30 to 40 percent for the New York Yankees and Manchester United, respectively.
When 14, 151 people watched Manchester Giants play London Leopards, it set a British record for attendance at a basketball match.
In the mid-1980s, when Manchester United Football Club owned the Manchester Giants, Manchester's basketball franchise, there were plans to build a 9, 000-seater indoor arena on the site of what is now Car Park E1.
After Blucas failed to make it into the NBA, he moved to England, where he played professional basketball for a year with British Basketball League's Manchester Giants.
Such a step had also been taken in the past by both Manchester Giants ( see Manchester Magic ) and Derby Storm ( see Derby Trailblazers ) and neither has yet returned to the top league.
Campanella has claimed that Manchester Giants catcher Sal Yvars threw dirt in his face during a game at Manchester Athletic Field ( Gill Stadium ), but the incident was resolved on the field ( though Yvars has denied that the incident took place ).
On 18 March 2010, it was announced that MTN signed a sponsorship deal with English football Giants Manchester United F. C.
The Manchester Giants of the New England League which was revived after World War II called the stadium home from 1946 to 1949.
Manchester and opened
ThomsonFly have opened additional routes from Manchester Airport and London Gatwick on Mondays and Fridays.
The last major canal to be built in the United Kingdom was the Manchester Ship Canal, which upon opening in 1894 was the largest ship canal in the world, and opened Manchester as a port.
On 15 September 1830, the Liverpool and Manchester Railway was opened, the first inter-city railway in the world and was attended by Prime Minister, the Duke of Wellington.
The first inter city passenger railway, Liverpool and Manchester Railway, opened in 1830, making exclusive use of steam power for both passenger and freight trains.
* 1894 – The Manchester Ship Canal in England is officially opened by Queen Victoria, who later knights its designer Sir Edward Leader Williams.
The Haçienda, Factory Records ' own nightclub ( largely funded by New Order ) opened in May 1982 in Manchester and was even issued a Factory catalogue number: FAC51.
George Stephenson used the 4 ft 8½ in gauge ( with a belated extra of free movement to reduce binding on curves ) for the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, authorised in 1826 and opened 30 September 1830.
The 1958 European premiere at the Manchester Opera House transferred to London, where it opened at Her Majesty's Theatre in the West End on Friday December 12, 1958 and ran until June 1961 with a total of 1, 039 performances.
* May 21 – The Manchester Ship Canal and Docks are opened by Queen Victoria.
* July 17-The first section of the Bridgewater Canal is opened, for the transportation of coal from local mines to Manchester.
Taco Bell opened a second store in Basildon on November 29, 2010 and the third in the Manchester Arndale on November 7, 2011.
Britain's ( and the world's ) first recognisably modern inter-city railway, the Liverpool and Manchester, opened in 1830 and proved to be highly successful for transporting both passengers and freight.
Manchester Valley High School opened in August 2009 to help alleviate overpopulation at North Carroll High School in Hampstead.
The Manchester & Keene Railroad opened in 1878, helping it prosper as a textile mill town.
Another stimulus to trade was provided by the Rochdale Canal, which opened up a through route from Sowerby Bridge to Manchester from 1804.
The Manchester and Leeds Railway company, which had approached the Calder and Hebble in 1836, but had been rebuffed, opened their line between 1839 and 1841.
In 1850 the firm opened depots in Birmingham, Manchester and Liverpool.
The company was re-registered in 1899 as Royce Ltd with a public share flotation and a further factory opened in Trafford Park, Manchester.
The ferries also began to operate summer Manchester Ship Canal cruises, a service which had been popular for many year since the canal opened, but declined somewhat in the 1960s and 1970s.
The Liverpool and Manchester Railway, considered to be the world's first intercity line, opened in 1826.
Factory also opened a bar ( The Dry Bar, FAC 201 ) and a shop ( The Area, FAC 281 ) in the Northern Quarter of Manchester.
Norwich City library was established in 1608 ( six years after Thomas Bodley founded the Bodleian Library, which was open to the " whole republic of the learned " and 145 years before the foundation of the British Museum ), and Chetham's Library in Manchester, which claims to be the oldest public library in the English-speaking world, opened in 1653.
Another important section, the North Staffordshire Railway ( NSR ), which opened its route in 1848 from Macclesfield ( connecting with the LNWR from Manchester ) to Stafford and Colwich via Stoke-on-Trent also remained independent.
A direct branch to Liverpool, bypassing the earlier Liverpool and Manchester line was opened in 1869, from Weaver Junction north of to Ditton Junction via the Runcorn Railway Bridge over the River Mersey.
Manchester and 1995-96
Major exhibions of his work were held at the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester and the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin in 1995-96, and at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam in 1999.
During the final weeks of the 1995-96 season, he guided Southampton to two crucial wins which played a big part in their survival-they first beat Manchester United ( champions that season ) 3-1 at The Dell, and then won their penultimate game 1-0 at Bolton Wanderers, a result which confirmed the other side's relegation.
Manchester and season
He left Manchester United to become manager of Preston North End for the 1973 – 74 season.
A successful ( though trophyless ) season with Manchester United had seen him take the honours of Football Writers ' Association Footballer of the Year and European Footballer Of The Year into the competition.
Charlton left Manchester United at the end of the 1972 – 73 season, having scored 249 goals and set a club record of 758 appearances, a record which Ryan Giggs broke in the 2008 UEFA Champions League Final.
Fulham recorded four record attendances in the 2009 – 2010 season, in their 0 – 1 loss to Arsenal and their 3 – 1, 3 – 0 and 2 – 1 victories over Liverpool, Manchester United and Hamburg SV respectively, each of which drew full capacity crowds.
United of Manchester and MK Dons, may not therefore play in the FA Cup in their first season.
Lineker scored three hat-tricks for Everton ; at home to Birmingham City in a 4 – 1 league win on 31 August 1985, at home to Manchester City in a 4 – 0 home win on 11 February 1986, and then in the penultimate league game of the season on 3 May 1986, when they kept their title hopes alive with a 6 – 1 home win over Southampton.
He officially joined Nagoya Grampus Eight after playing his final game for Spurs on 2 May 1992, when he scored the consolation goal in a 3 – 1 defeat by Manchester United on the last day of the season.
He made his debut, wearing Keegan's number seven shirt, on 13 August 1977 in the season opener at Wembley, in the Charity Shield against Manchester United.
Blackburn finished two positions higher the following season, as runners-up to Manchester United.
By the last game of the season, both Blackburn and Manchester were in contention for the title.
During the 2008 – 09 season Liverpool achieved 86 points, its highest Premier League points total, and finished as runners up to Manchester United.
Manchester United won the First Division for the second time in 1911, but at the end of the following season, Mangnall left the club to join Manchester City.
In 1957, Manchester United became the first English team to compete in the European Cup, despite objections from The Football League, who had denied Chelsea the same opportunity the previous season.
The following season, on the way home from a European Cup quarter-final victory against Red Star Belgrade, the aircraft carrying the Manchester United players, officials and journalists crashed while attempting to take off after refuelling in Munich, Germany.
Docherty saved Manchester United from relegation that season, only to see them relegated in 1974 ; by that time the trio of Best, Law, and Charlton had left the club.
The following season, Manchester United claimed its first Cup Winners ' Cup title and competed in the 1991 UEFA Super Cup, beating European Cup holders Red Star Belgrade 1 – 0 in the final at Old Trafford.
In the 1998 – 99 season, Manchester United became the first team to win the Premier League, FA Cup and UEFA Champions League – " The Treble " – in the same season.
In the 2005 – 06 season, Manchester United failed to qualify for the knockout phase of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in over a decade, but recovered to secure a second-place league finish and victory over Wigan Athletic in the 2006 Football League Cup Final.
Although Arsenal failed to retain the Premier League after being beaten on the final day of the season by Manchester United, Bergkamp was the club's second-top scorer with 16 goals.
Arsenal regained the league, beating Manchester United at Old Trafford in the penultimate game of the season to complete the club's second double under Wenger ; Arsenal defeated Chelsea 2 – 0 to win the FA Cup four days prior.
Ronald Koeman has said that Feyenoord was the better side over the two legs but missed a scoring striker, referring to John Guidetti, the loaned player from Manchester City one season earlier.
His first season was a triumph as he answered all the questions about how he would handle rainy Manchester compared to sunny Monaco.
The signing of Alex Stepney at the end of that season briefly threatened his position as Chelsea's first choice goalkeeper and he considered putting in a transfer request, but Stepney ultimately played only one game for the club and was sold to Manchester United a few months later.
1.399 seconds.