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11th March

England on
12th March
13th March
England On This Day
1857 Arnold Hills born in Camberwell
1878 Bernard Wilkinson born in Thorpe Hesley		  
1881 England concede their first ever own goal
Friendly match
13 Saturday, 12 March 1881 - England 1 Scotland 6 [0-1]
Surrey Cricket Ground, Kennington (4,000 to 5,000)		 C.Bambridge
 Smith (2), Hill, Kerr (2), Field OG		 HL

1883 Tot Rostron's eldest child, Sarah Jane, born
1887 Home Championship Ireland 4 Wales 1
1894 England beat Wales for a ninth time in a row

British Championship  
51 Monday, 12 March 1894 - Wales 1 England 5 [1-2]
 The Racecourse, Wrexham (3,000 to 6,000)		 Bowdler
Veitch (3), Parry OG, Gosling		 AW

   
1904 England remain unbeaten against Ireland for the 23rd time
Home Championship Scotland 1 Wales 1

British Championship  
81 Saturday, 12 March 1904 - Ireland 1 England 3 [0-2]
 Cliftonville Gardens, Belfast (9,000)		 Kirwan
Bache, Common (2)		 AW
 
1905 Tommy Graham born in Consett

1912 Willie Hall born in Newark
1917 Jack Reynolds dies in Sheffield aged 47
1920 Edmund Currey dies in Hounslow aged 53
1922 Frank Lock (B team) born in Whitechapel

1924 Stan Rickaby born in Stockton-on-Tees
1926 Les Shannon (B team) born in Liverpool








1963 Arthur Grimsdell dies in Watford aged 68
1906 England team chosen to face Wales

1917 Teddy Taylor marries Maggie Bickerstaff in Liverpool


1923 England team chosen to face Belgium
 George Wilson's transfer to Blackburn Rovers FC called off
1924 Bob Kelly marries May Ogden in Lytham

1930 trial England 1 The Rest 6 at Anfield
1936 funeral of Ernest Needham in Staveley
1938 amateur Scotland 2 England 5 at Hampden Park
1946 Jackie Bestall new Doncaster Rovers FC manager
1949 amateur Wales 1 England 3 at Llanelli
1952 Bill Ridding appointed manager of the B Team
1958 youth England 1 West Germany 2 at Burnden Park
1961 youth West Germany 2 England 0 in Flensburg
1969 England beat France in their first friendly for 12 years

Friendly match  
429 Wednesday, 12 March 1969 - England 5 France 0 [1-0]
 Empire Stadium, Wembley (85,000)		 O'Grady, Hurst (3 (2 pens)), Lee HW

   
1975 England beat West Germany in their 100th match at Wembley

Friendly match  
488 Wednesday, 12 March 1975 -
England 2 West Germany 0 [1-0]
 Wembley Stadium, Wembley (100,000)		 Bell, Macdonald HW

1979 Seth Johnson born in Birmingham
1983 Dicky Spence dies in Ealing aged 74





1997 Dean Henderson born in Whitehaven

1986 under 21 Denmark 0 England 1 at Idrætsparken
 Peter Davenport joins Manchester United FC for £½m
1987 Les Ferdinand signs for QPR for £15,000
1992 Andrew Cole joins Bristol City FC for £½m
1993 Andrew Cole joins Manchester United FC for £1.75m

1999 under 16 England 0 Republic Ireland 0 at Deepdale
2003 youth Switzerland 0 England 0 in Lugano
        under 17 England 2 Czech Republic 0 at Haig Ave
2008 England remain eleventh in rankings
2009 women England 3 Canada 1 in Nicosia
2014 women England 0 France 2 in Nicosia
2015 England drop two to 17th in rankings
 England to play Spain in November
 Zat Knight signs for Reading FC on short-term contract
2017 Roy McFarland leaves as Chesterfield FC manager
 Chris Powell sacked as Derby County FC assistant
2019 Czech Republic name squad for England & Brazil

Opposition On This Day
1866 goalkeeper John McLeod (Scotland) born
1898 Jack Mahood (Ireland) born
1913 Teobaldo Depetrini (Italy) born
1924 goalkeeper Valerio Bacigalupo (Italy) born
1928 Gerhard Harpers (West Germany) born

1957 Patrick Battiston (France) born
1962 goalkeeper Andrea Kopke (Germany) born
1965 Arpad Hahn (Hungary) born
1974 Walid Badir (Israel) born

1977 official Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain) born in Valencia
1989 Siim Luts (Estonia) born
1990 Ilija Nestorovski (North Macedonia) born
1993 Abdullahi Shehu (Nigeria) born




1950 Javier Clemente (Spain manager) born




1975 Edgaras Jankauskas (Lithuania manager) born

   

England's Record on 12th March
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 3 2 0 1 8 6 +2 0 2 2.667 2.00 66.7 +1
Away 2 2 0 0 8 2 +6 0 0 4.00 1.00 100.0 +2
Total 5 4 0 1 16 8 +8 0 2 3.20 1.60 80.0 +3

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