User:GEbb4/sandbox/Draft of 1995-96 in English football (Diary of the season)

Diary of the season

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June

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30 June 1995 Tottenham Hotspur pay a club record £4.5million for striker Chris Armstrong from relegated Crystal Palace.

July

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1 July 1995 Nottingham Forest pay a club record £2.5million for Sheffield Wednesday midfielder Chris Bart-Williams, on the same day that they sell striker Stan Collymore to Liverpool for a national record fee of £8.5million. Collymore's place in the Nottingham Forest attack is taken by Kevin Campbell, a £2.8million signing from Arsenal.
3 July 1995 Alan Ball is appointed the new manager of Manchester City.
5 July 1995 Brian Little's regeneration of Aston Villa continues with the £3.25million acquisition of Leicester City midfielder Mark Draper.
6 July 1995 Newcastle United sign French winger David Ginola from Paris St Germain for £2.5million and striker Les Ferdinand from Queen's Park Rangers for a club record £6 million.
10 July 1995 England midfielder Paul Gascoigne returns to the UK after three years away in a £4.3million move to Glasgow Rangers.
12 July 1995 George Graham is banned from football for a year as punishment for accepting illegal payments, which cost him his job as Arsenal manager five months ago.
14 July 1995 Arsenal pay a club record £4.75million for England captain David Platt from Sampdoria of Italy. Platt, 29, is now the world's costliest player with transfer fees now totalling £22.15millon since Aston Villa signed him from Crewe Alexandra for £200,000 in February 1988.
17 July 1995 Mike Naylor, chairman and founder of Football League sponsors Endsleigh Insurance, dies in Southern France when his Bentley crashes into a tree.
19 July 1995 Sheffield Wednesday sign Belgian midfielder Marc Degryse from Anderlecht for £1.5million.
24 July 1995 Footballers Bruce Grobbelaar, Hans Segers and John Fashanu are charged with being involved in match-fixing and bribery.
26 July 1995 Queen's Park Rangers sign Australia national football team captain Ned Zelic from Borussia Dortmund of Germany for £1.25million.