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16th March

England on
17th March

18th March
England On This Day
  1855 Alec Morten marries Flora Hedger in Petersham
1884 England's sixth match against Wales and fourth victory
British Championship  
22 Monday, 17 March 1884 - Wales 0 England 4 [0-1]
The Racecourse, Wrexham (3,000 to 6,000)
Bromley-Davenport (2), Bailey, Gunn AW

   
1888 England beat Scotland for first time since 1879

British Championship  
33 Saturday, 17 March 1888 - Scotland 0 England 5 [0-4]
Hampden Park, Glasgow
(14,000 to 20,000)
Haworth, Hodgetts, Dewhurst (2), Goodall AW

   
1900 Jack Robinson becomes at the time, the most capped goalkeeper

British Championship  
68 Saturday, 17 March 1900 - Ireland 0 England 2 [0-2]
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
(8,000)
Cochrane OG, Sagar AW

  1906 Home Championship Ireland 0 Scotland 1
1909
Herod Ruddlesdin's daughter, Annie, dies
1913 England beat Wales and extend unbeaten home record to 13 matches

British Championship  
115 Monday, 17 March 1913 - England 4 Wales 3 [3-1]
Ashton Gate, Bristol
(8,000)
Fleming, Latheron, McCall, Hampton
Davis, Meredith, Peake
HW



1931
Harry Sedgwick (reserve) dies in Park Lane aged 75


1948
Jack Carr dies in Newcastle upon Tyne aged 69


1964
Lee Dixon born in Manchester




1988
Fraser Forster born in Hexham
1989 Charlie Vaughan (reserve) dies in Sutton aged 67


1923 Home Championship Scotland 2 Wales 0
1928 amateur Wales 1 England 2 in Ninian Park

1937
Home Championship Wales 4 Ireland 1
        trial Probables 2 Possibles 0 at Turf Moor

1958 amateur Crystal Palace 1 England 0
1962 youth England 4 Wales 0 in Swindon

1974 women
England 5 Wales 0 in Slough
1982
under 21 Poland 1 England 2 in Warsaw

1984
semi-pro England 2 Wales 2 in Gloucester
1985 women England 4 Scotland 0 at Deepdale


1990 women
Belgium 0 England 3 in Ypres
1993
under 20 Ghana 2 England 1 in Sydney
2003
FA sign sponsorship deal with Pepsi
2004
England up one to equal-sixth in rankings
 Brazil voted in to host the 2014 World Cup Finals
2005 Azerbaijan name squad for England
2007
Wayne Rooney scores the Goal of the Season
2009 Ukraine provisional squad named for England
2016
new Nike kits released

2017 Germany announce squad to play England
2018 Italy announce squad to play Argentina and England
2020 Euro 2020 postponed for a year
 England's friendlies against Austria & Romania called off

2021 Michail Antonio switches allegiance to Jamaica
 
Opposition On This Day
1880 Tommy Black (Ireland) born
1918 Ratko Čolić (Yugoslavia) born
1922 Holger Seebach (Denmark) born
1925 Willi Steffan (Switzerland) born
1930 Jack Cumming (Scotland) born
1939 Paul Sauvage (France) born

1949 Pat Rice (Northern Ireland) born
1964 Jacques Songo'o (Cameroon) born
1979 Tommy Doherty (Northern Ireland) born in Bristol
1986 Eugeniusz Polański (Poland) born
1988 Rasmus Elm (Sweden) born
1992 Yeltsin Tejeda (Costa Rica) born
1994 Marcel Sabitzer (Austria) born





1939
Giovanni Trapattoni (Italy player & manager, also Rep. Ireland manager) born

England's Record on 17th March
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 1 1 0 0 4 3 +1 0 0 4.00 3.00 100.0 +1
Away 3 3 0 0 11 0 +11 0 3 2.667 0.00 100.0 +3
Total 4 4 0 0 15 3 +12 0 3 3.75 0.75 100.0 +4

 

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