On this day in sport: Scolari sacked, Greenwood dies

1540: The first recorded horse race meeting in England took place at Chester’s Roodee Fields.

1998: Lawrie McMenemy, out of football since resigning after his second spell as Southampton manager, became the first non-Ulsterman to manage Northern Ireland. Joe Jordan and Pat Jennings were named as his assistants. McMenemy resigned two years later.

2006: Former England manager Ron Greenwood died at the age of 84 after a long illness. Greenwood, who also managed West Ham, was in charge of England at the 1982 World Cup finals.

2009: Champion jockey Tony McCoy recorded his 3,000th jumps winner aboard Restless D’Artaix at Plumpton.

2009: Two Premier League managers left their post as first Tony Adams was sacked as Portsmouth boss, before Luiz Felipe Scolari was dismissed by Chelsea.

2012: The Football Association confirmed Stuart Pearce would take temporary charge of the England team for the friendly against Holland on February 29 following the resignation of Fabio Capello. Roy Hodgson was appointed as Capello’s permanent successor in May of that year.

2014: Jenny Jones won Great Britain’s first Winter Olympic medal on snow when she finished third in the snowboard slopestyle event in Sochi.

2016: Former Ireland and Lions captain Paul O’Connell announced his retirement from rugby with immediate effect due to injury.