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21st October

England in
22nd October

23rd October
British Championship
127 Saturday, 22 October 1921 - Ireland 1 England 1 [1-1]
Windsor Park, Belfast
(30,000)
Gillespie
Kirton
AD

  1923 Fred Tunstall's daughter, Freda, is born
1924 equal the record of twelve matches without a clean sheet

British Championship  
142 Wednesday, 22 October 1924 - England 3 Ireland 1 [1-0]
Goodison Park, Liverpool
(30,000)
Kelly, Bedford, Walker
Gillespie
HW

   
1927 Herbert Jones' own goal is the first on an away ground since 1882

British Championship  
157 Saturday, 22 October 1927 - Ireland 2 England 0 [1-0]
Windsor Park, Belfast
(30,000)
Jones OG, Mahood AL

   
1928 Bill Dean misses England's tenth awarded penalty kick

British Championship  
162 Monday, 22 October 1928 - England 2 Ireland 1 [1-1]
Goodison Park, Liverpool
(25,000)
Hulme, Dean
Bambrick
HW


1932
Alf Dobson dies in Beeston aged 73
1930 Tommy Roberts signs for Chorley FC

1937
Jackie Carr resigns as Tranmere Rovers FC manager
1938 Tommy Lawton becomes the youngest debutant to score, and the youngest to score a penalty kick
then the England team for The Rest of Europe team is chosen
Jackie Carr appointed as Darlington FC manager

British Championship  
219 Saturday, 22 October 1938 - Wales 4 England 2 [2-2]
Ninian Park, Cardiff
(55,000)
Astley (2), Hopkins, B.Jones
Lawton
(pen), Matthews
AL

1939 George Cohen born in Kensington
1944
Paul Reaney born in Fulham
1947 Harry Hadley dies in Kingston-upon-Thames, aged 70



1952
representative FA XI 8 RAF 1 at Stamford Bridge
1955 Bert Williams makes his final appearance in goal
olympic Bulgaria 2 Great Britain 0 in Sofia

British Championship  
299 Saturday, 22 October 1955 - Wales 2 England 1 [2-0]
Ninian Park, Cardiff (60,000)
Tapscott, Jones
J.Charles OG
AL

  1956 amateur Newcastle United FC 5 Great Britain 0
1958 Nat Lofthouse becomes joint top scorer with Tom Finney

Friendly match
327 Wednesday, 22 October 1958 - England 5 USSR 0 [1-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(100,000)
Haynes (3), R.Charlton (pen), Lofthouse HW

   
1966 Billy Ferguson is first player sent off in an Home Championship match
UEFA Group 8 Home Championship Wales 1 Scotland 1

British Championship &
 European Championship Preliminary match
 
410 Saturday, 22 October 1966 -
Northern Ireland 0 England 2 [0-1]
Windsor Park, Belfast (47,897)
Hunt, Peters AW
Billy Ferguson



1970
Norman Bullock dies in Leicester aged 70
1969 under 23 England 2 USSR 0 at Old Trafford
       
amateur cup England 1 Spain 2 in Dulwich

1972
Gordon Banks has a car accident that blinds him
1977
Frank Worthington signs for Bolton Wanderers FC
1993
England drop to tenth in the rankings
1997 Scott Parker signs pro with Charlton Athletic FC
2000
Peter Taylor appointed caretaker manager of England
2003 England remain sixth in rankings
2006 Pet Shop Boys Numb enters the chart
2008 under 17 Armenia 0 England 0 in Tenerife
2009
Colin Cooper apptd caretaker at Middlesbrough FC
2015 UEFA fine The FA £15,000 for crowd disturbances
 Carlton Cole signs for The Celtic FC
2019 Sol Campbell appointed as Southend United manager
 Andy Cole appointed as a Southend United FC coach.
2020 England remain fourth in the rankings
2021 under 17 Slovenia 2 England 2 in Barysaw
2022 The funeral of Jimmy Greaves in Chelmsford

Opposition On This Day
1880 goalkeeper James Nolan (Ireland) born
1929 goalkeeper Lev Yashin (USSR) born
1930 Todor Veselinović (Yugoslavia) born
1933 Ronnie Nolan (Republic of Ireland) born
& Helmut Senekowitsch (Austria) born
1938 Alan Gilzean (Scotland) born

1964 official Billy Bunnell dies in Dulwich aged 80
1970 Winston Bogarde (Netherlands) born
1975 Míchel (Spain) born
1978 Christoffer Andersson (Sweden) born
1982 Oleksandr Kucher (Ukraine) born
1997 Joe Rodon (Wales) born
& Jodi Jones (Malta) born in Bow
1998 Ianis Hagi (Romania) born in İstanbul
& Harry Souttar (Australia) born in Aberdeen
2000 Brendan Aaronsson (United States) born






1959
Laurie Sanchez (Nrth Ireland player & manager) born

  

England's Record on 22nd October
Type P W D L F A GD FTS CS FAv AAv Pts % W/L
Home 3 3 0 0 10 2 +8 0 1 3.333 0.667 100.0 +3
Away 5 1 1 3 6 9 -3 1 1 1.20 1.80 30.0 -2
Total 8 4 1 3 16 11 +5 1 2 2.00 1.375 56.3 +1
 

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