Home International Championship
23	Saturday, 28 February 1885 - England 4 Ireland 0 [1-0] Whalley Range, Manchester (6,000)	C.Bambridge, Spilsbury, Eames OG, Brown	HW

	1895 Jack Hillman marries Frances Atkinson in Burnley 1902 Joe Lofthouse coach at Magyar AC 1914 Home Championship Scotland 0 Wales 0  followed by Welsh team chosen to face England 1924 Bill Brown signs for Chelsea FC
1925 England beat Wales on a 'deplorable' pitch in Swansea also Home Championship Ireland 0 Scotland 3

Home International Championship
144	Saturday, 28 February 1925 - Wales 1 England 2 [1-2] Vetch Field, Swansea (8,000)	Keenor F.Roberts (2)	AW

1927 Tommy Garrett born in Sunderland 1967 Colin Cooper born in Sedgefield	1948 amateur GB 4 Queen's Park 0 at Fratton Park 1962 under 23 Scotland 2 England 4 at Pittodrie 1968 ECP Group 8 Wales 2 Northern Ireland 0 1970 amateur England 3 Rep. Ireland 1 in High Wycombe 1984 under 21 England 6 France 1 at Hillsborough 1995 David Beckham joins Preston North End FC on loan 1997 Steve Guppy signs for Leicester City for £950,000
2001 Sven-Göran Eriksson's first match as Head Coach  the goalkeeper wears black for the first time & Stan Cullis dies in Malvern, aged 84 years

Friendly match
776	Wednesday, 28 February 2001 - England 3 Spain 0 [1-0] Villa Park, Birmingham (41,129)	Barmby, Heskey, Ehiogu	HW

2006 under 21 England 3 Norway 1 in Reading         under 19 England 3 Slovakia 0 in Northampton 2012 under 19 England 2 Czech Republic 1 in Leyton 2014 Jermain Defoe's transfer to Toronto FC now effective 2019 Scott Parker appointed caretaker at Fulham FC

Opposition On This Day

1847 William Bailey (Scotland unofficial) born in Derbyshire 1871 Willie Gordon (Ireland) born 1874 Jimmy Blessington (Scotland) born 1901 Harry Thomas (Wales) born 1918 Petar Manola (Yugoslavia) born 1942 goalkeeper Dino Zoff (Italy) born 1944 goalkeeper Sepp Maier (West Germany) born 1957 Jans Ceulemans (Belgium) born 1968 Eric Van Meir (Belgium) born 1976 Geri Cipi (Albania) born 1977 Janne Saarinen (Finland) born 1979 Andriy Nesmachnyi (Ukraine) born 1980 Christian Poulsen (Denmark) & Omar Pouso (Uruguay) born 1985 Diego (Brazil) born 1987 Antonio Candreva (Italy) born 1990 Sebastian Rudy (Germany) born 1992 Cristian Brolli (San Marino) born 1994 Arkadiusz Milik (Poland) born

2004 IFAB reaffirm the penalty kick shootout's status

   

England's Record on 28th February
Type	P	W	D	L	F	A	GD	FTS	CS	FAv	AAv	Pts %	W/L
Home	2	2	0	0	7	0	+7	0	2	3.50	0.00	100.0	+2
Away	1	1	0	0	2	1	+2	0	0	2.00	1.00	100.0	+1
Total	3	3	0	0	9	1	+8	0	2	3.00	0.333	100.0	+3

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