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21 unusual facts about 1992-93 in English football


1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final

The 1993 Football League Second Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 30 May 1993, to determine the third and final team to gain promotion from the Third Division to the Second Division of The Football League in the 1992–93 season.

1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final

The 1993 Football League Third Division play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium on 29 May 1993, at the end of the 1992–93 season.

Andy Arnott

During the 1992–93 season, and after only 32 appearances and 8 goals, Arnott went on loan to Manchester United who wanted to take a closer look at the player.

Barwell F.C.

Barwell were formed at the start of the 1992–93 season as the result of a merger between Hinckley Football Club of the Midland Football Combination and Barwell Athletic Football Club, who had previously played in the Leicestershire Senior League.

Bobby Mimms

Players such as Alan Shearer, Stuart Ripley, Graeme Le Saux, Kevin Gallacher were brought to the club and Mimms was a key part of the team which finished fourth in the 1992–93 season, just missing out on a UEFA Cup place.

Darren Beckford

The 1992–93 season signalled the beginning of the end for Beckford as a Norwich City player.

Darren Ferguson

Ferguson played in United's first 15 games of the new Premier League in 1992–93 during the absence of the injured Bryan Robson, and although he did not start a league game after November, he played enough games to qualify for a title winner's medal at the end of the season.

David Speedie

He made just seven appearances (scoring twice) for the Saints in the 1992–93 league campaign, having unsuccessful loan spells with Birmingham City and West Bromwich Albion before another loan deal in early March took him to Division One promotion contenders West Ham United.

Dele Adebola

He made his first team debut in the 1992–93 season in the Third Division at the age of 17, and in the following season gained experience by playing on loan at Bangor City in the Welsh Premier League and Conference side Northwich Victoria.

Doug Livermore

Shreeves was axed, and Livermore was promoted to the role of Team Manager for the 1992–93 season – the first season of the Premier League.

Gary Pallister

Although it was his excellent defensive displays that helped Manchester United to the league title along with Steve Bruce at the heart of the defence, forming one of the best central defensive partnerships in the club's history, in the 1992–93 season, he scored a memorable goal in the final home game of the season against Blackburn Rovers.

Geraint Williams

Ipswich did reasonably well in 1992–93, having the longest unbeaten start in the new Premier League and being fourth as late on as February, sparking hopes that Ipswich could win the league title.

Graham Abel

He remained a regular with the Blues until he was released at the end of the 1992–93 season, with his impressive tally of 30 goals helped by a strong penalty taking record and occasional spells at centre-forward.

Keith Gillespie

Gillespie made his debut for Manchester United in the 1992–93 season, and scored his first goal for the club against Bury in a 2–0 FA Cup third round triumph on 5 January 1993.

Molineux Stadium

The North Bank terrace was demolished in October 1991, and, the following summer, the new Stan Cullis Stand was completed in August 1992, in time for the 1992–93 season.

Paul Compton

He most notably managed Torquay United during the 1992–93 season, and was assistant manager at Dorchester Town prior to rejoining Torquay United in the summer of 2008 as joint manager of their new youth set-up.

Ray Warburton

At York he helped the club win promotion form the Third Division in 1992–93.

Redbridge Forest F.C.

For the 1992–93 season, they merged with Dagenham (the club whose ground they were sharing) and became Dagenham & Redbridge.

Russell Beardsmore

He did not feature in a single competitive game when United won the first Premier League title in 1992–93, and at the end of the season signed for Bournemouth on a free transfer.

Steve Agnew

His spell at Blackburn was unsuccessful, only making four appearances before he joined Portsmouth on loan and then Leicester City permanently in the 1992–93 season.

Steve Guppy

At Wycombe, he first teamed up with newly appointed Martin O'Neill and helped take them into the Football League as Conference champions in 1992–93 as well as completing the non-league double by winning the FA Trophy.


A Collection of Romantic Themes

This compilation consists of tracks from his 1992 Granny-nominated album Dare to Dream and his 1993 follow-up album In My Time as well as from Reflections of Passion and Yanni Live at the Acropolis.

A Trip to Karabakh

A trip to Karabakh (Gaseirneba Karabaghshi in Georgian) is a 2005 Georgian film directed by Levan Tutberidze and based on the 1992 book by Aka Morchiladze.

AP Vojvodina

Autonomous Province of Vojvodina, SFR Yugoslavia (1990-1992), FR Yugoslavia (1992-2003), Serbia and Montenegro (2003-2006), independent Serbia (since 2006)

ASCI White

It was built as stage three of the Accelerated Strategic Computing Initiative (ASCI) started by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration to build a simulator to replace live WMD testing following the moratorium on testing started by President George H. W. Bush in 1992 and extended by Bill Clinton in 1993.

Austin H. Kiplinger

From 1961 to 1992, Kiplinger helmed the Kiplinger Company before passing the position to his son, Knight Kiplinger.

Barbara Alyn Woods

In early 1990's, Woods, starred in several films such as Circuitry Man (1990), The Terror Within II (1991), Delusion (1991), The Waterdance (1992), Flesh and Bone (1993), Ghoulies IV (1994) and Frankie Starlight (1995).

Bill Hartman

In 1992, the University announced the creation of the "Bill Hartman Award" for athletes who had distinguished themselves as alumni with recipients including Fran Tarkenton and Pierre Howard, who held the position of Lieutenant Governor of Georgia.

Bobby Mackey's Music World

On October 30, 1992, on his show, Geraldo Rivera interviewed Mackey, his wife, Lawson, and Cole, along with Hell's Gate author Douglas Hensley and others.

Chabahar Free Trade-Industrial Zone

Chabahar free trade–industrial zone was established in 1992 along with the two other free trade zones Qeshm and Kish Island to use global expertise (mostly from South East Asia) as a tool for the development of the country, accelerating the accomplishment of infrastructure, creation of employment, and representation in global markets.

CYMA – Canadian Youth Mission to Armenia

CYMA was founded in late 1992 through a collaboration between Archbishop Hovnan Derderian, then primate of the Canadian Diocese of the Armenian Apostolic Church, and university student Ronald Alepian.

David Beetham

Closer to home, he joined Democratic Audit at the University of Essex in 1992 where he became Associate Editor, working closely with Director Stuart Weir.

Echelmeyer Ice Stream

The name was changed from Ice Stream F by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names in 2002 to honor Dr. Keith A. Echelmeyer of the Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, who studied the flow of Marie Byrd Land ice streams, 1992–93 and 1994–95, as well as the fast flow of surging glaciers in Alaska and Greenland.

EMD E5

This equipment was used in the production of the 1992 film A League of Their Own, and for the 2006 film Flags of Our Fathers, E5 9911A Silver Pilot was used with 4 stainless steel passenger cars relettered to resemble the Zephyr trainset.

Europahalle

The venue has featured a number of world record performances in athletics, including a jump of 2.07 m in the high jump by Heike Henkel in 1992, when the Europahalle hosted the German Indoor Championships.

Francis Dhomont

Dhomont's work has won many international awards including at the Bourges International Electroacoustic Music Competition (France), the Magisterium Prize in 1988, Prix Ars Electronica in 1992 (Linz, Austria) and others.

Gondershe

The film La Conchiglia (1992) by the award-winning Somali filmmaker Abdulkadir Ahmed Said was also shot here, and features the town's local residents.

Green Mill Cocktail Lounge

Over the years, the Green Mill has appeared in many films, such as Thief (1981), Next of Kin (1989), V. I. Warshawski (1991), Prelude to a Kiss (1992), Folks! (1992), Soul Food (1997) and High Fidelity (2000).

Grete Waitz

Waitz completed her last marathon on 1 November 1992 with her friend Fred Lebow.

GuardAir

The airline was founded in 1992 by Einar Rønnestad, and started with a Cessna 210 that it operated for the insurance company Storebrand to find stolen cars and boats.

Hard Luck Duck

Fred Seibert became president of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons in 1992 and helped guide the struggling animation studio into its greatest output in years with shows like 2 Stupid Dogs and SWAT Kats: The Radical Squadron.

International Open

International Tennis Open, a sports video game developed by Infogrames Multimedia and published by Philips Interactive Media in 1992

Jane E. Henney

Prior to her appointment as commissioner, Henney had worked at the FDA from 1992 to 1994 as deputy commissioner for operations under then commissioner David Aaron Kessler, and then at the University of New Mexico, where she was vice president of the health sciences center.

Jeff Raikes

In 1992 the Pacific Northwest was in danger of losing the Seattle Mariners Major League Baseball franchise.

Jerry Ciccoritti

Ciccoritti was instrumental in developing the TV series Catwalk (1992) and Straight Up (1996) and began a secondary career as a director of big-budget television movies and miniseries with Net Worth (1995), a drama about hockey player Ted Lindsay's battles with the NHL on behalf of his fellow players.

Justin Catanoso

In 1992 his investigative reporting for the News & Record into fraud in the tobacco industry earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination, a Science in Society Journalism Award from the National Association of Science Writers, and Medical Writer of the Year in North Carolina.

Karel David

Karel David (born February 8, 1964 in Nový Jičín, Czechoslovakia) is a retired long-distance runner from the Czech Republic, who won the 1991 and 1992 edition of the Vienna Marathon.

Kunsthalle Wien

It opened in 1992, and was originally located on Karlsplatz, in a container-shaped building designed as a temporary site by the Austrian architect Adolf Krischanitz.

Lúčina Slovak Folklore Ensemble

Over the years, Lúčina has sponsored the Cleveland area performance of several Slovak Fok Ensemble including Terchovska Muzika in 1987, Oravan in 1991, and Šarišan in 1990, 1992, and again in 1995.

Manager Daily

During the Black May incident in May 1992, Manager Daily and two other newspapers were threatened with being banned by the government of General Suchinda Kraprayoon for having printed pictures of the demonstration crackdown.

Marawah Island

In 1992, the Abu Dhabi Islands Archaeological Survey (ADIAS) completed a preliminary survey of the island.

Marilyn Jenkins

The ceremony received even more attention when the Penny Marshall's film A League of Their Own, starring Tom Hanks, Geena Davis, Madonna and Rosie O'Donnell, was released in 1992.

Michigan State University School of Hospitality Business

The School’s faculty was ranked number one by the Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research in “mean productivity” from 1992–2001, and in having "the most intensely" contributing authors amongst the Top 20 universities.

Mike Enriquez

He also played a disc jockey on Andrew E.'s 1992 movie, Mahirap ang Maging Pogi (It's Not Easy Being Handsome).

Mollie's Song

CD 2 included the b-side only track "Call Me", and both CD1 and CD2 included as a b-side the traditional lullaby Hush Little Baby, which was recorded for an episode of the BBC TV programme Challenge Anneka, aired September 23, 1992, in which Anneka Rice organized the release of an album (titled Tommy's Tape), whose royalties would be donated to Tommy's Campaign, for research into premature births at the Children's Intensive Care Unit in St Thomas' Hospital in London.

Nordeste Linhas Aéreas Regionais

3 February 1992: an Embraer EMB 110 Bandeirante registration PT-TBB operating flight 92 from Salvador da Bahia to Guanambi, descended below minimum levels in bad weather and crashed on a hill hidden by clouds near Caetité.

Ogyges

Hammond, N.G.L. and Howard Hayes Scullard (editors), The Oxford Classical Dictionary, second edition, Oxford University Press, 1992.

Panther Kallista

The Kallista was produced from 1982 through 1990 until SsangYong Motor Company released a badge engineered version in 1992 called the SsangYong Kallista.

Rafael Ruelas

Shortly after a TKO in 10 over the popular Jorge Páez in 1992, Ruelas earned a shot at IBF Lightweight Title Freddie Pendleton, overcoming an early knockdown and winning by unanimous decision.

Richmond Flyers

The club ceased to exist from 1992 when their home ice rink, Richmond Ice Rink, was demolished to make way for flats overlooking the River Thames.

Sabiha Al Khemir

Between 1991–1992 Al Khemir was a consultant for the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York for the exhibition ‘Al-Andalus: Islamic Arts of Spain.’ She traveled in Europe and North Africa in search of objects and history that would provide the basis for the show.

Santiago Arias

Santiago Arias Naranjo (born 13 January 1992 in Medellín, Colombia) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a right back for Dutch club PSV Eindhoven in the Eredivisie.

Shalane Flanagan

Lynn Jennings, first American woman to win an Olympic medal in the 10,000 m (1992)

The Phantom Blooper

According to the official Gustav Hasford website, The Short-Timers, The Phantom Blooper, and Hasford's third and last completed book, a noir detective novel titled A Gypsy Good Time (1992), are currently out of print.

The Pist

The Pist was an American hardcore punk band that was formed in Connecticut in the winter of 1992 by Al Ouimet on vocals and bass, Bill Chamberlain on guitar, and Greg Bennick on drums.

UniCredit Bulbank

The 1992 meeting of shareholders changed the bank's status to a universal commercial bank, so the branch network was expanded (Plovdiv, Kardzhali, Burgas, Stara Zagora, etc.), focusing on customer service in the years to follow.

Vilnius University Institute of International Relations and Political Science

The Institute of International Relations and Political Science (IIRPS) of Vilnius University was established on 7 February 1992 by the agreement between Vilnius University and the Supreme Committee for the Liberation of Lithuania.

Wilhelmenia Fernandez

Since then she has sung in operas and recitals in cities all over the world, her most notable roles being Carmen, Carmen Jones (for which she received the Laurence Olivier Theatre Award in 1992 as Best Actress in a Musical), and Aïda, a role she has performed in Luxor and at the Pyramids in Egypt.

Yorston

Harry Yorston, (1929–1992), Scottish professional soccer player

ZaMirNET

Amidst the "worst crimes committed in Europe this century" the first major experiment in email was launched in June 1992 in Zagreb and Belgrade, almost exactly a year after Croatia seceded from Yugoslavia, triggering a brutal response from Serbia.