British Championship
342	Saturday, 8 October 1960 - Northern Ireland 2 England 5 [1-2] Windsor Park, Belfast (58,000-60,000)	McAdams (2) Smith, Greaves (2), Charlton, Douglas	AW

1988 Jackie Milburn dies in Ashington aged 64 1997 Ben White born in Poole

1961 UEFA Group 6 Luxembourg 4 Portugal 2 1964 Mexico to host the 1970 World Cup Finals 1969 amateur cup England 1 France 2 in Enfield 1970 Tony Allen joins Bury FC for £10,000 1978 u/o youth Canary Islands 2 England 4 in Las Palmas 1981 under 20 England 1 Australia 1 in Sydney 1989 UEFA Group 2 Sweden 3 Albania 1 1994 women Iceland 1 England 2 in Reykjavík 1996 under 21 England 0 Poland 0 at Molineux 1999 under 21 England 4 Denmark 1 in Bradford         under 19 England 3 Cyprus 0 at Brisbane Road 2004 under 21 England 2 Wales 0 at Ewood Park

2005 David Beckham becomes the first player to be sent off twice UEFA Group 6 Northern Ireland 2 Wales 3

World Cup Preliminary match
832	Saturday, 8 October 2005 - England 1 Austria 0 [1-0] Old Trafford, Manchester (64,822)	Lampard (pen)	HW
		David Beckham

	2008 under 19 England 3 Albania 0 in Coleraine  England are up to fourteenth in the rankings 2010 UEFA Group G Wales 0 Bulgaria 1  & Montenegro 1 Switzerland 0         under 21 England 2 Romania 1 in Carrow Road         under 19 England 6 Albania 1 in Visé 2015 under 19 England 2 FYR Macedonia 0 in Skopje
2016 Southgate becomes the ninth successive manager to win their first game UEFA Group F Scotland 1 Lithuania 1 & Slovenia 1 Slovakia 0

World Cup Preliminary match
961	Saturday, 8 October 2016 - England 2 Malta 0 [2-0] The National Stadium, Wembley (81,781)	Sturridge, Alli	HW

2017 Kane becomes the first captain to score in his first four matches UEFA Group F Slovenia 2 Scotland 2 & Slovakia 3 Malta 0 youth Chile 0 England 4 in Bidhannagar

World Cup Preliminary match
972	Sunday, 8 October 2017 - Lithuania 0 England 1 [0-1] LFF stadionas, Vilnius (5,400)	Kane (pen)	AW

	2018 John Terry announces his retirement from playing 2019 women Portugal 0 England 1 in Setúbal
2020 England score their 250th goal against Wales under 19 England 3 Scotland 1 abandoned at St. George's Park

Friendly match
1004	Thursday, 8 October 2020 - England 3 Wales 0 [1-0] The National Stadium, Wembley (bcd)	Calvert-Lewin, Coady, Ings	HW

2023 Wayne Rooney leaves as DC United FC manager

Opposition On This Day

1867 John Barry (Ireland) born 1905 André Rollet (France) born 1906 Hans Stubb (Germany) born 1910 Charles Napier (Scotland) born 1918 Frederic Chaves (Belgium) born 1920 René Thirifays (Belgium) born 1922 Nils Liedholm (Sweden) born 1923 Rune Emanuelsson (Sweden) born 1928 Didi (Brazil) born 1930 goalkeeper Billy Brown (Scotland) born 1963 official Stephane Cuhat (Switzerland) born 1968 Zvonimir Boban (Croatia) born 1973 official Alberto Undiano Mallenco (Spain) born 1975 Philippe Felgen (Luxembourg) born 1976 Roland Kollman (Austria) born 1980 Kasper Bøgelund (Denmark) born 1983 Rəşad Sadıqov (Azerbaijan) born 1990 Vytautas Andriuškevičius (Lithuania) & Felipe Gutiérrez (Chile) born 1996 Michael Battistini (San Marino) born 1997 Steven Bergwijn (Netherlands) born & Sabará (Brazil) dies

1906 Ferdinand Fabra (Finland manager) born in Prussia

  

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