Here’s a colourised and restored photo of Tom Baker and Lis Sladen enjoying the sunshine at the National Radiological Protection Board, Didcot, Oxfordshire, on Monday 21st July 1975, during filming for #DoctorWho and the Android Invasion.
On this day in 1998:
Tony Adams is put through by Steve Bould and seals the title in style with one of the great Premier League moments.
“That sums it all up!”
When Arsenal went to Anfield in 1989 needing to beat Liverpool 2-0 to win the league, every one of the lads went back to London afterwards to celebrate.
Lee Dixon did not.
That was his biggest regret about the whole night.
Because before the game, his mum had already told him he had to come back home.
His uncle was over from Australia.
There was a party planned.
And as far as Dixon was concerned, Arsenal probably were not even going to win the title anyway.
So he had already arranged to go back.
Then Michael Thomas scored.
Arsenal won the league.
And while the rest of the squad were heading off to celebrate one of the maddest title wins English football had ever seen, Dixon was stood outside Anfield with a bottle of champagne waving them off.
He got in the car with his brother and started driving back through Liverpool towards his mum and dad’s.
He still had his Arsenal blazer on.
And had a bottle of champagne with champions stamped across it.
After a while it caught up with him that he had not eaten.
His brother spotted a chippy.
So Dixon said he would go in and get it.
Right then he still was not thinking properly.
He jumped out and ran straight in.
And the second he opened the door, it hit him.
The place was full.
Liverpool had just lost the title.
And he was standing in the middle of Liverpool in an Arsenal blazer.
“Oh my God.”
“This is the end.”
By then there was no real way out of it.
So he just kept his head down and went to the counter.
“Four fish and chips please.”
Then he looked up at the bloke behind the counter.
He was just staring at him.
Dixon was waiting for it.
Instead the fella leaned over and gave him the line that saved him.
“It’s alright lad.”
“You can have extra chips.”
“We’re all Evertonians.”
Instead of getting buried in a Liverpool chip shop in an Arsenal blazer after Arsenal had just won the title at Anfield, Dixon ended up having a party in there with a load of Evertonians.
Erling Haaland pulled Gabriel with both hands before scoring, why didn’t VAR intervene?
Khusanov fouled Havertz as the last man, yet no foul was given. How are these decisions being justified @FA_PGMOL
Only one chance in this lifetime…
Like watching sunset at the beach from the most foreign seat in the cosmos, I couldn’t resist a cell phone video of Earthset. You can hear the shutter on the Nikon as @Astro_Christina is hammering away on 3-shot brackets and capturing those exceptional Earthset photos through the 400mm lens. @AstroVicGlover was in window 3 watching with @Astro_Jeremy next to him.
I could barely see the Moon through the docking hatch window but the iPhone was the perfect size to catch the view…this is uncropped, uncut with 8x zoom which is quite comparable to the view of the human eye. Enjoy.
We find out in just over a week if MAXIMUM: THE LIFE OF JACQUELINE PEARCE has picked up a Royal Television Society Award. Whatever happens, it's great to be in the race!
Tom Baker defends Doctor Who's cheap look and if taking it to Hollywood would be an improvement in 1980 on The John Singleton Show in Australia. #TomBaker#DoctorWho#FourthDoctor