Games being called off has become tediously commonplace this season – but it wasn’t so easy two decades ago to get a fixture stopped. Back in March 2002, you needed three red cards, two injuries and more rucks than the Rugby World Cup.
Or that’s how Neil Warnock did it, at least. On purpose? That’s the question.
“I don’t think there’s been a game as manipulated,” says Phil Gilchrist, West Brom’s centre-back on that dramatic afternoon. “Or as violent…”
The Battle of Bramall Lane is one of the murkiest games in British football history – but then it always likely to be tasty
