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3rd April

England on
4th April

5th April

England On This Day
Robert King born in Leigh-on-Sea George Cotterill born in Brighton Harold Hardman born in Manchester	1862 1868 1880 1882 1888	Ben Warren is baptised in Newhall Charles Wilson marries Lily Smith in Horbling

British Championship
43	England 2 Scotland 1 [2-0] Ewood Park, Blackburn (6,000 to 10,000)	1891	Goodall, Chadwick Watt	HW
			Goal nets are used for the first time

Eddie Edmonds born in Finsbury

1893

British Championship
58	Scotland 2 England 1 [2-0] Celtic Park, Glasgow (57,315)	1896	Lambie, Bell Bassett	AL
			end of a 20-match unbeaten run in front of a world record attendance

1897

British Championship
79	England 1 Scotland 2 [1-0] Bramall Lane, Sheffield (31,799)	1903	Woodward Speedie, Walker	HL
			Scotland return to Bramall Lane for first time in 20 years

Archie Clark born in Shoreham

1904
1906

England team is chosen to face Scotland
Bristol City FC appoint Harry Thickitt as manager

British Championship
94	Scotland 1 England 1 [1-0] Hampden Park, Glasgow (121,452)	1908	Wilson Windridge	AD
			England play in front of another world record attendance

1908
1911

1913

William Garraty marries Annie Shufflebotham

adjourned IFAB meeting held at the FA, FIFA join.

British Championship
119	Scotland 3 England 1 [1-1] Hampden Park, Glasgow (105,000)	1914	Thomson, McMenemy, Reid Fleming	AL
			Bob Crompton makes his record final appearance

1921
1922
1923

Ernie Hine's son, Ernest, is born
Robert King's son, Anthony, is born
Scotland team is chosen to face England

British Championship
145	Scotland 2 England 0 [1-0] Hampden Park, Glasgow (92,000)	1925	Gallacher (2)	AL
Archie Turner dies in Farnborough aged 47 years			England lose in Scotland for eighth match in a row

1929
1932

British Championship
202	England 1 Scotland 1 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley (93,267)	1936	Camsell Walker (pen)	HD
			a new record attendance and record gate

Jeff Hall dies of Polio in Little Bromwich aged 29 years

1938

1940
1942
1953

1955
1957
1959
1961

Friendly match
355	England 3 Austria 1 [2-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley *(50,000)*	1962	Crawford, Flowers (pen), Hunt Buzek	HW
			England beat Austria at Wembley for the first time

Paul Parker born in Forest Gate

1964
1966

1973
1979
1983

amateur trial Northern & Wearside 3 England 2
Terry Venables marries Christine McCann in W.Ham
amateur England 3 Finland 0 at Home Park
youth England 2 Italy 0 at Villa Park
under 17 Qatar 1 England 1 in Cannes

British Championship
586	England 1 Northern Ireland 0 [1-0] Wembley Stadium, Wembley (24,000)	1984	Woodcock	HW
			the last Home Championship match against Northern Ireland

Frankie Fielding born in Blackburn

Bill Ellerington dies in Southampton aged 91 years
Ray Wilkins dies in Tooting aged 61 years

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2015
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2023
2024

Opposition On This Day
BIRTHS		DEATHS & APPOINTMENTS
Jack Owen (Wales) Valdus Lund (Sweden) George Stephenson (Scotland) Luis Tirado (Chile manager) László Cseh (Hungary) Amedeo Biavati (Italy) Paddy Coad (Ireland) Billy Houliston (Scotland) official Hugh Phillips (Scotland) in Wishaw Pavão (Brazil) René Girard (France) Dietmar Kühbauer (Austria) Peter Hoekstra (Netherlands) Emerson (Brazil) Jay de Merit (United States) Aiden McGeady (Republic of Ireland) in Falkirk Alex Tetty (Norway) Sami Khedira (Germany) Marc Vales (Andorra) David Strelec (Slovakia)	1865 1895 1905 1906 1910 1915 1920 1921 1930 1954 1971 1973 1976 1979 1986 1987 1990 2001 2012 2020	Dubravko Pavličić (Croatia) dies Stephen Kenny (Rep. Ireland manager) appointed

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