Home International Championship
237	Wednesday, 5 November 1947 - England 2 Ireland 2 [0-0] Goodison Park, Liverpool (67,980)	Mannion, Lawton Walsh, Doherty	HD

	1951 England and Ireland teams chosen to play each other 1952 representative FA XI 4 The Army 1 at Elland Road         Home Championship Scotland 1 Ireland 1 1955 youth England 3 Netherlands 1 in Carrow Road 1956 amateur Arsenal 3 Great Britain 2 at Highbury 1960 amateur England 6 Wales 1 at Goldstone Ground
1969 England's first win in Netherlands since 1935

Friendly match
436	Wednesday, 5 November 1969 - Netherlands 0 England 1 [0-0] Olympisch Stadion, Amsterdam (35,000)	Bell	AW

1971 Rob Jones born in Wrexham 1977 Richard Wright born in Ipswich

1982 David Bardsley signs professional with Blackpool FC 1988 UEFA Group 2 Albania 1 Sweden 2 1997 Steven Gerrard signs his first professional contract 2001 England name squad for Sweden,  as Sven-Göran Eriksson wins Personality of the Year 2002 under 19 Moldova 0 England 9 at Irthlingborough 2009 under 16 England 2 Northern Ireland 0 in Chester 2015 England up to ninth in the rankings  England name squad for Spain and France  France name their squad for England and Germany 2020 England squad named for their November matches  Republic of Ireland also name their squad

Opposition On This Day

1893 Raymond Dubly (France) born 1912 Leonardo Cilaurren (Spain) born 1914 Karl-Erik Grahn (Sweden) born 1931 Laurent Robuschi (France) born 1936 Uwe Seeler (West Germany) born 1960 official Vladimir Eniutin (Russia) & Alain Geiger (Switzerland) born 1963 Jean-Pierre Papin (France) & Jan Gillhaus (Netherlands) born 1968 official João Ferreira (Portugal) born in Porto 1973 Christian Alverdi (Luxembourg) born 1976 Oleh Shelayev (Ukraine) born 1980 Christophe Metzelder (Germany) born 1986 goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel (Denmark) born 1990 Luis Garrado (Honduras) born 1992 Marco Verratti (Italy) born 1997 Chris Mapham (Wales) born in Hammersmith 2003 Wilfried Gnonto (Italy) born

1952 Oleh Blokhin (Ukraine manager) born 2013 Martin O'Neill (Rep. Ireland manager) appointed

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