European Championship Preliminary match
573	Wednesday, 15 December 1982 - England 9 Luxembourg 0 [4-0] Wembley Stadium, Wembley (33,977)	Moes OG, Coppell, Woodcock, Blissett (3), Chamberlain, Hoddle, Neal	HW

1989 Aaron Cresswell born in Liverpool 1992 Jesse Lingard born in Warrington 2009 Alan A'Court dies in Nantwich aged 75 years

1985 draw held in Mexico City for 1986 World Cup Finals 2003 England drop to =8th in the rankings 2010 England remain sixth in the rankings 2016 England remain thirteenth in the rankings  Steven Taylor leaves Portland Timbers

Opposition On This Day

1922 Juan Carlos Colman (Argentina) born 1946 goalkeeper Pieter Schrijvers (Netherlands) born 1966 Hector Vergara (Chile) born in San Javier 1974 Jimmy Quinn (Northern Ireland) born 1975 Cosmin Contra (Romania) born 1981 Hossam Ghaly (Egypt), Roman Pavlyuchenko (Russia) & Elyaniv Barda (Egypt) born 1983 Zlatan Ljubijankic (Slovenia) born 1984 Martin Škrtel (Slovakia) born 1986 goalkeeper Keylor Navas (Costa Rica) born 1991 Mattia Giardi (San Marino) born 1992 Famara Diédhiou (Senegal) born 1996 Oleksandr Zinchenko (Ukraine) born

  

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