Appreciation

Sharon Astill for her encouragement, support and friendship.  Sharon runs England FC, the website that has the most complete coverage of England's national football teams.

Trevor Bond, secretary of the British Sports Writers' Association, for information regarding the Association's awards.

Ulf Brennmo, perhaps Sweden's most prominent supporter of English football long before Sven-Göran Eriksson's tenure as England coach,, for his friendship, support and enthusiasm, for unselfishly sharing historical information and for promising Sweden would beat Poland to secure a Euro 2000 playoff spot for England.  Ulf has his own fine websites devoted to England's national side and to English football in general.

Jose Castro for his friendship and for furnishing much information on Brazil's national team.

Mohamed S. Chbaro for his friendship and generosity in sharing his expertise, particularly on football in the Middle East, the topic of his superb ground-breaking website.

Kalin Dimitrov for providing information on Bulgaria's national team.

Bob Dooley, a contributor from Kingston-Upon Thames, U.K., for his help on our England uniforms pages.

Alan Douglas for sending information on England's match with Canada.

Roy Fairfax, a reader in Australia, for filling some gaps in our Uniform pages.

David Farrugia, a reader in Balzan, Malta, for spotting an error on our opposition records page.

Cris Freddi, the noted football journalist, author and historian, for generously sharing his knowledge and expertise on many topics and for his encouragement.

The Fédération Luxembourgeoise de Football for promptly sending information on the Luxembourg squad even before it appeared on the official Luxembourg website.

Norman Giller, prolific football journalist and author, for his generous support, encouragement and help on many matters.

Nikki Hardman, Edgbaston, England, who describes herself as "the original footie chick," for correcting the date of death of her great grandfather, Harold Payne Hardman, who won a gold medal with the British Olympic Games team of 1908 and was later chairman of Manchester United.

Jan van den Heuvel for sharing information on England's matches with Holland.  

Ambrosius Kutschera, proprietor of the superb Fußall in Österreich website, for his generous help on England's matches with Austria and his friendship.

Seamus McCann, a reader from Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, for his encouragement and assistance on England's World Cup records and other matters and his friendship.

Donnie Moses, supporter of Milan's Internazionale and coordinator of its Internet mailing list, for sharing his knowledge of football, for his generous help and support and for his friendship.

Robert Owens, a contributor from Scarborough, for keeping us abreast with his Referee's information.

Paul Robinson, a reader from Kanata, Ontario, Canada, for his help and suggestions on many matters and his encouragement and friendship.

The Royal Belgian Football Association, and particularly Freddy Hindryckx, for sending much information on the Belgium team.

Eduard Smit, supporter of Holland, Ajax and Arsenal, for his friendship, for sharing his knowledge of football and for his constant technical help and suggestions.

Pete Zemroch, Ellesmere Port, U.K., Bradford Park Avenue supporter and match programme contributor, for correcting our venue listing for the 1909 match against Ireland.