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unusual facts about England football team



Bisham

During the Nationwide Building Society's summer advertising campaign of 2010, when they were official sponsors of the England football team at the World Cup, one of their television advertisements featured the England team playing on one of the pitches at Bisham Abbey.

Rob Finch

Bob made two England International trials, one of them for the Rest v England, opposite the great Dixie Dean.

Robo-Hunter

Robo-Hunter became a semi-regular feature in the comic for the next two years, during which the now Brit Cit located Sam investigated, among other cases, a plot to sabotage the robotic England football team's World Cup campaign.


see also

Ottaway

Cuthbert Ottaway (1850–1878), the first captain of the England football team

Paul Ridley

When the England football team under manager Graham Taylor flopped at Euro ’92, Ridley capitalised on the infamous SWEDES 2 TURNIPS 1 headline with a lengthy campaign to get ‘Turnip’ Taylor sacked.