England on 25th May

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England on
25th May

26th May

England On This Day
Evelyn Freeth born in London John Owen born in Aston Clinton Alf Common born in Sunderland Edward Hansell dies in Norwich aged 77 years	1846 1848 1880 1891 1898 1911 1931 1938	John Maynard's son, William, is born George Ashmore is baptised in Plymouth Arthur Lowder's daughter, May, is born amateur Switzerland 1 England 4 in Bern FA Tour of Canada London 1 England 4 in Ontario Blackburn Rovers appoint Bob Crompton as manager

End-of-Season tour match
234	Portugal 0 England 10 [0-5] Estadio Nacional, Lisboa (62,000)	1947	Lawton (4), Mortensen (4), Finney, Matthews	AW
			Tommy Lawton scores the quickest ever England goal

Ernest Wilson dies in Scarborough aged 87 years

1948
1949
1950

End-of-Season tour match
271	Austria 2 England 3 [2-2] Praterstadion, Wien (65,500)	1952	Huber, Dienst Lofthouse (2), Sewell	AW
			England wear blue numbers for the first time

Jimmy Harrop dies in Sheffield aged 70 years

Horace Colclough dies in Bournemouth aged 87 years

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Friendly match
561	England 2 Netherlands 0 [0-0] Wembley Stadium, Wembley (69,000)	1982	Woodcock, Mariner	HW
			Peter Shilton is Greenwood's eighth different captain

1984

youth GDR 1 England 1 in Moscow
Paul Bracewell joins Everton FC for £425,000

Rous Cup match
600	Scotland 1 England 0 [0-0] Hampden Park, Glasgow *(66,439)*	1985	Gough	AL
			England lose at Hampden Park for first time since 1976 women Northern Ireland 1 England 8 at Antrim

1990

under 21 USSR 1 England 2 in Toulon
semi-professional Rep.Ireland 1 England 2 in Dublin

England Challenge Cup match
672	England 2 Argentina 2 [1-0] Wembley Stadium, Wembley (44,497)	1991	Lineker, Platt García, Franco	HD
			Gary Lineker lifts the England Challenge Cup preceded by under 19 England 1 Spain 1 at Wembley women England 1 United States 3 in Hirson

Friendly match
779	England 4 Mexico 0 [3-0] Pride Park Stadium, Derby (33,597)	2001	Scholes, Fowler, Beckham, Sheringham	HW
			England's first visit to Derby since 1911

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Opposition On This Day
BIRTHS		DEATHS & APPOINTMENTS
official Thomas Hindle born in Darwen Gordon Smith (Scotland) Ubaldo Faina (Argentina) Gaetano Scirea (Italy) Daniel Passarella (Argentina manager) Tite (Brazil manager) Blaise Nkufo (Switzerland) in Zaire Magnus Pehrsson (Estonia manager) in Sweden Carlos Bocanegra (United States) Jóhannes Guðjónsson (Iceland) Daniel Braaten (Norway) Sergei Skorykh (Kazakhstan) goalkeeper Ernestas Šetkus (Lithuania) James Morrison (Scotland) in Darlington Danial Mladenov (Bulgaria) Jón Daði Böðvarsson (Iceland) goalkeeper Danijel Petković (Montenegro) Zsolt Nagy (Hungary) Arthur Theate (Belgium)	1855 1924 1928 1953 1961 1975 1976 1979 1980 1982 1984 1985 1986 1987 1992 1993 2000 2021	Hans Flick (Germany manager) appointed

England's Record on 25th May

Venue

FTS

FAv

AAv

Pts%

W/L

Home

2.667

0.667

83.3

Away

+10

4.333

1.00

66.7

+16

3.5

0.833