British Championship
23	Saturday, 28 February 1885 - England 4 Ireland 0 [1-0] Manchester Football Ground, Whalley Range (5,000 to 6,000)	C.Bambridge, Spilsbury, Eames OG, Brown	HW

	1895 funeral of Harry Allen in Walsall  Jack Hillman marries Fanny Stansfield in Burnley 1897 Herbert Jones is baptised in South Shore  Tom Perry's eldest daughter, Gladys, is born 1902 Joe Lofthouse coach at Magyar AC 1914 Home Championship Scotland 0 Wales 0  followed by Welsh team chosen for England 1921 trial The North 6 England 1 at Turf Moor 1924 Bill Brown signs for Chelsea FC
1925 England beat Wales on a 'deplorable' pitch in Swansea Home Championship Ireland 0 Scotland 3

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

1926 Tommy Garrett born in Sunderland 1967 Colin Cooper born in Sedgefield

1948 amateur GB 4 Queen's Park 0 at Fratton Park         youth England 4 Wales 3 in High Wycombe 1959 youth Scotland 1 England 1 at Pittodrie 1962 under 23 Scotland 2 England 4 at Pittodrie 1968 ECP Group 8 Wales 2 Northern Ireland 0         youth England 4 Republic of Ireland 1 in Portsmouth 1969 youth England 0 Northern Ireland 2 in Birkenhead 1970 amateur England 3 Rep. Ireland 1 in High Wycombe         youth Northern Ireland 3 England 1 in Lurgan 1979 youth Italy 0 England 1 in Roma 1984 under 21 England 6 France 1 at Hillsborough 1992 under 16 Oman 2 England 1 in Muscat 1995 under 16 Romania 2 England 3 in Athens         C England 1 Wales 0 in Yeovil  David Beckham joins Preston North End FC on loan 1996 youth France 1 England 1 in Meaux 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         C England 1 Italy 1 in Fleetwood         woman England 3 Finland 1 in Nicosia 2014 under 17 Portugal 2 England 2 in Algarve  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 u/o) born in Derbyshire 1871 Willie Gordon (Ireland) born 1874 Jimmy Blessington (Scotland) born 1901 Harry Thomas (Wales) born 1918 Petar Manola (Yugoslavia) born 1932 Noel Cantwell (Éire) born 1935 Raúl Arellano (Mexico) 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 1999 Nedim Bajrami (Albania) born 2000 Moise Kean (Italy) born

2004 IFAB reaffirm the penalty kick shootout's status 2024 John O'Shea appointed head coach as Rep. Ireland

   

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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