England on 3rd October
Festival of Britain match 265 Wednesday, 3 October 1951 - England 2 France 2 [2-2] Arsenal Stadium, Highbury (57,603) Firoud OG, Medley Doye, Alpsteg HD 1953 Home Ch'ship/UEFA Group 3 Ireland 1 Scotland 3 1956 UEFA Group 1 Republic of Ireland 2 Denmark 1 1962 England's first competitive match with France European Nations Cup Preliminary match 363 Wednesday, 3 October 1962 - England 1 France 1 [0-1] Hillsborough, Sheffield (35,380) Flowers (pen) Goujon HD 1964 Jimmy Greaves becomes England's record goalscorer British Championship 383 Saturday, 3 October 1964 - Northern Ireland 3 England 4 [0-4] Windsor Park, Belfast (58,000/60,000) S.Wilson, McLaughlin (2) Pickering, Greaves (3) AW 1978 Alf Strange dies in Ripley aged 781988 Eddie Shimwell dies in Blackpool aged 68 1981 first ever under 20 match England 2 Cameroon 0 1982 women Scotland 0 England 4 in Dumbarton 1984 Peter Bonetti's son, Scott, is born 1991 under 16 England 0 Denmark 1 in Lilleshall 1992 under 16 Scotland 2 England 4 in Genova1995 Emile Heskey signs pro forms with Leicester City FC 2001 under 17 England 3 Spain 2 at Ashton Gate2003 Turkey name their squad that will face England2004 England name squad for Wales and Azerbaijan 2008 under 16 Northern Ireland 0 England 6 in Ballymena Fraser Forster joins Stockport County FC on loan 2010 Sven-Göran Eriksson apptd Leicester City manager2012 England drop to fifth in the rankings Poland name squad for South Africa and England2013 England name squad for Montenegro & Poland 2016 under 17 Germany 1 England 8 in Pula2019 England name squad for Czech Rep. & Bulgaria Opposition On This Day 1867 Tommy Brandon (Scotland) born 1909 Stanley vanden Eynde (Belgium) born 1913 Jimmy Dougall (Scotland) born 1931 Ernest Jann (Luxembourg) born 1967 official Roberto Braatz (Brazil) born 1977 official Marco Fritz (Germany) born in Korb 1978 Gerald Asamoah (Germany) born in Ghana 1981 goalkeeper Andreas Isaksson (Sweden) born 1983 Fred (Brazil) born 1993 Fidan Aliti (Kosovo) born in Yugoslavia 1995 Simonas Stankevićius (Lithuania) born 1996 Kelechi Iheanacho (Nigeria) born 1990 The German countries reunified
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