The 2017 EFL Trophy Final was an association football match that was played on 2 April 2017 at Wembley Stadium, London, between League One teams Coventry City and Oxford United. The match decided the winner of the 2016–17 EFL Trophy, a 64-team knockout tournament comprising clubs from League One and League Two of the English Football League (EFL), as well as 16 Category One academy sides representing Premier League and Championship clubs. It was Coventry's first appearance in the final and the second for Oxford, who had been beaten by Barnsley in the previous season's match. The game was played in front of a crowd of 74,434, the highest attendance for the final since the opening of the new Wembley Stadium. Coventry won 2–1 to earn their first major trophy since their victory in the 1987 FA Cup Final. The win was a highlight for Coventry's supporters in what was otherwise a disappointing season, as they were relegated to League Two.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1825:

Imperial Russian Army officers led about 3,000 soldiers in protest against Nicholas I's assumption of the throne after his elder brother Konstantin removed himself from the line of succession. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decembrist_revolt

1862:

American Civil War: The Battle of Chickasaw Bayou began with Confederate defenders engaging Union forces attempting to capture the city of Vicksburg, Mississippi. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Chickasaw_Bayou

1898:

At the French Academy of Sciences, physicists Pierre and Marie Curie announced the discovery of a new element, naming it radium. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radium

1900:

A relief crew arrived at the Flannan Isles Lighthouse in Scotland and discovered that the previous crew had disappeared. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannan_Isles_Lighthouse

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

take the gilt off the gingerbread: (idiomatic) To take away the most attractive or appealing qualities of something; to destroy an illusion. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/take_the_gilt_off_the_gingerbread

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.   --Henry Miller https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Miller