Thirty years ago, Howard Wilkinson was washing down his late Sunday lunch with a bottle of red wine when his five-year-old son came bounding down the stairs.
‘He said, “Daddy, I think we’ve just won the championship”,’ recalls the then Leeds United manager. Young Ben Wilkinson was not wrong.
He had just watched Manchester United lose 2-0 at Liverpool on the upstairs television, a result which meant Leeds would be crowned the 1992 champions – the last before the Premier League era.
It's been 30 since Leeds won the last league title before the Premier League era began
His father, meanwhile, had purposely chosen to avoid the action at Anfield after returning to his home in Sheffield following Leeds’ earlier 3-2 win at nearby Bramall Lane.