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22nd February

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23rd February

24th February
 
British Championship
20 Saturday, 23 February 1884 - Ireland 1 England 8 [0-4]
Ulster Cricket Ground, Belfast (3,000)
McWha
Johnson, C.Bambridge (3), H.Cursham (3), Holden
AW

1889 England win four matches in a row and play in Stoke for the first time

British Championship  
35 Saturday, 23 February 1889 - England 4 Wales 1 [1-1]
victoria Ground, Stoke-upon-Trent (5,000 to 10,000)
Goodall, Dewhurst, Southworth, Bassett
Owen
HW

1895 Harry Allen dies in Walsall aged 29 years




1919
Tom Porteous dies in Blackpool aged 52 years
1923 Harry Clarke born in Woodford Green



1948
Trevor Cherry born in Huddersfield
1895 Frank Forman joins Nottingham Forest FC
1901 Home Championship Scotland 11 Ireland 0
1907 Home Championship Ireland 2 Wales 3
1910 Jack Sharp to retire at the end of the season
1916 David Mercer's oldest son Robert, born

1923 Jack Brown joins Sheffield Wednesday FC for £360

1929 Home Championship Ireland 3 Scotland 7
 
Harry Storer joins Burnley FC for £4250

1938 Tom White signs with New Brighton FC
1948 Eddie Hapgood becomes manager of Watford FC
1952 youth England 6 Wales 0 at Home Park

1953 the England B team chosen to play Scotland B
1954 the Scotland B team chosen to play England B
1955 the Scotland B team chosen to play England B
1958 memorial at Manchester Cathedral for Munich victims
1966 Nobby Stiles plays in a number nine and scores

Friendly match  
397 Wednesday, 23 February 1966 -
England 1 West Germany 0 [1-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley (75,000)
Stiles HW



1981
Gareth Barry born in Hastings
1968 youth Northern Ireland 2 England 0 in Belfast
1977
colleges FA 4 British Colleges SA 1 in Cheltenham
1982 Cyrille Regis becomes the third BME player to play for England
youth Scotland 1 England 0 at Ibrox

British Championship
559 Tuesday, 23 February 1982 -
England
4 Northern Ireland 0 [1-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley (54,900)
Robson, Keegan, Wilkins, Hoddle HW

   
1983 England play Wales in February for the first time since 1936
unofficial youth Israel Olympic 2 England 4

British Championship
574 Wednesday, 23 February 1983 -
England
2 Wales 1 [1-1]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley (24,000)
Butcher, Neal (pen)
Rush
HW

1993 Conor Coady born in Liverpool

1998 James Justin born in Luton

1995 women
Germany 2 England 1 in Bochum
1998
Gareth Barry signs professional with Aston Villa FC
2000 England's first friendly match with Argentina since 1980
Stanley Matthews dies in Stoke-upon-Trent aged 85 years
Michael Carrick joins Birmingham City FC on loan

Friendly match
765 Wednesday, 23 February 2000 -
England 0
Argentina 0 [0-0]
Wembley Stadium, Wembley (74,008)
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  2001 Spain announces squad to face England
2011 Eric Parsons cremated in Worthing
2012 Stuart Pearce announces his only England squad
2014 The Euro 2016 preliminary match draw in Nice
 Group E Fixtures decided in Nice
2017 Shaun Wright-Phillips signs for Phoenix Rising FC
2021 women England 6 N. Ireland 0 at St. George's Park

2023
under 16 England 3 Scotland 0 in Geroskipou

 John Motson, commentator, dies
2024
under 16 England 4 Sweden 0 in l'Albir

        women Austria 2 England 7 at in Algeciras

 

Opposition On This Day
1873 Niel Gibson (Scotland) born
1877 Lloyd Davies (Wales) born
1885 Ferenc Weisz (Hungary) born
1900 Jim Hopkins (Ireland) born

1920 Wilhelm Neukom (Switzerland) born
1927 Willie Ormond (Scotland) born
1929 Rolf Decker (United States) born in Frankfurt
1949 Rostislav Vojaček (Czechoslovakia) born
1976 Rafael Amirbekov (Azerbaijan) & Victor (Spain) born
1986 Sergei Ostapenko (Kazakhstan) born
1988 Traik Elyounoussi (Norway) born
1992 Casemiro (Brazil) & Stefan Mugoša (Montenegro) born




1919 Johnny Carey (Eire player & manager) born

England's Record on 23rd February
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 5 4 1 0 11 2 +9 1 3 2.20 0.40 90.0 +4
Away 1 1 0 0 8 1 +7 0 0 8.00 1.00 100.0 +1
Total 6 5 1 0 19 3 +16 1 3 3.167 0.50 91.7 +5

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