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16th April

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17th April

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England On This Day






1895
Frank Moss born in Aston
1858 Alec Morten's daughter, Frances, stillborn
1877
Frederick Soden's funeral in Norwood
1879
Monty Betts marries Jeannie Bouch in Bickley
1886
Alf Lyttelton's son, Alfred, is born
1892
Robin Benson's daughter Margaret, is born
 Alf Lyttelton marries again to Edith Balfour in San Remo

1897
Alec Leake marries Ellen Bird in Sparkwood
1911 amateur Netherlands 0 Engand 1 in Amsterdam
1926 England visit Old Trafford for the first time
British Championship
149 Saturday, 17 April 1926 - England 0 Scotland 1 [0-1]
Old Trafford, Manchester (49,429)
Jackson HL

1928 Charley Chenery dies in Mansfield, Australia aged 78
1929 Tony Leach's son, Leo, born
1930 England team chosen to play Austria & Germany
1931 Arthur Chadwick resigns as Southampton manager
1937 The Scots refuse to be numbererd

British Championship  
208 Saturday, 17 April 1937 - Scotland 3 England 1 [0-1]
Hampden Park, Glasgow
(149,547)
O'Donnell, McPhail (2)
Steele
AL








1970
Len Barry dies in Basford aged 68
1983 Harry Holdcroft dies in Preston aged 74
1943 unofficial Scotland 0 England 4 at Hampden Park
1948 youth England 3 Netherlands 2 at White Hart Lane
1952 youth Austria 5 England 5 in Barcelona
1954 youth Luxembourg 2 England 0 in Neuenahr
1963
youth England 2 USSR 0 at White Hart Lane
1965 youth Spain 0 England 0 at Frankenstadion
1967
Gordon Banks signs for Stoke City FC for £52,500

1983
UEFA Group 3 Hungary 6 Luxembourg 2
1988 exhibition women England 2 Ireland 0 at Wembley
1991 UEFA Group 7 Poland 3 Turkey 0
1994 women England 10 Slovenia 0 at Griffin Park
2002 Michael Owen becomes the youngest captain since Bobby Moore in 1963
England up to eleventh in rankings

under 19 Lithuania 1 England 1 in Kaunus

Friendly match  
788 Wednesday, 17 April 2002 - England 4 Paraguay 0 [1-0]
Anfield Road, Liverpool
(42,713)
Owen, Murphy, Vassell, Ayala OG HW







2020
Norman Hunter dies in Leeds aged 77 years
2003 under 16 Gabon 0 England 2 in Boufféré
2006
youth England 2 Slovenia 1 in Bournemouth
       
under 16 Japan 1 England 1 in Boufféré
2007
funeral of Brian Miller in Worsthorne
2014 under 16 Korean Republic 1 England 1 in Mareuil
2017 under 16 Belgium 4 England 0 in Mouilleron

Opposition On This Day
1885 official Evan Sambrooke (Wales) born

1945 Pavel Stratil (Czechoslovakia) born

1960 official Charles Schaack (Luxembourg) born
1968 Bela Illis (Hungary) born
1972 Jarko Wiss (Finland) born
1974 official Markus Häcker (Germany) born in Pentz
1975 Stefano Fiore (Italy) born
1980 Fabián Vargas (Colombia) born
1981 Michael Mifsud (Malta)
& goalkeeper Yuri Zhevnov (Belarus) born
1983 Gal Alberman (Israel) born
1990 official Erwan Finjean (France) born

1898 Benito Díaz (Spain manager) born

1954 Ján Kozák (Slovakia manager) born










2019 Edoardo Reja (Albania manager) appointed


England's Record on 17th April
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 2 1 0 1 4 1 +3 1 1 2.00 0.50 50.0 =0
Away 1 0 0 1 1 3 -2 0 0 1.00 3.00 0.00 -1
Total 3 1 0 2 5 4 +1 1 1 1.667 1.333 33.3 -1

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