The anniversary passed quietly and unobtrusively last week of an episode in Manchester City's history that still gives supporters of the club the shivers 20 years later.
Freshly relegated to the second tier, it had taken City chairman Francis Lee weeks to find a new manager but only 32 days to lose him again. Steve Coppell, appointed to the job that apparently nobody wanted with the usual brash fanfare and raft of promises, went the way of so many others, slinking out of the back door under rug.
Coppell, an intelligent and sensitive man, looked like a ghost when uttering his barely audible reasons for the swift exit in a hastily arranged news conference at Maine Road.