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18 unusual facts about England national football team


Breakin' Away / That's Livin' Alright

For England's national football team's 2006 FIFA World Cup campaign, Fagin performed "That's England Alright", a variation of "That's Livin' Alright" produced by Clive Langer, with lyrics by Jimmy Lawless.

Chris Ramsey

In addition to his coaching responsibilities while at the F.A., Ramsey was a scout for the England national football team under Kevin Keegan.

Fanny Walden

Frederick Ingram "Fanny" Walden (1 March 1888 – 3 May 1949) was an English professional footballer who played on the right-wing for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 1910s and 1920s.

George Houghton

While in America he also travelled to Florida to talk to an unnamed man who he said almost runs football over there and he has also been talking to former Middlesbrough and England now FC Twente manager Steve McClaren as well to set up links with David Beckham to try to get him to become an ambassador for the club.

Greenwich Borough F.C.

One of the club's former players is Ian Wright, who transferred to Crystal Palace and later went on to play for Arsenal and the England national team, amongst others.

Jack Kirwan

Until then the competition had been monopolised by England and Scotland.

He scored his second goal for Ireland in a 3–1 defeat to England on 12 March 1904.

Joanna Taylor

Taylor married English footballer Danny Murphy on 7 July 2004, whom she met through mutual actor friend Louis Emerick in Barbados.

John Stirk

Born in Consett, Stirk played youth football for local non-league team Consett A.F.C. He joined Ipswich Town on schoolboy terms in 1971, and after making two appearances for the England youth team, turned professional in 1973.

Katy Hill

Her assignments included living in Mongolia with a family for a week, training with the England football squad for a World Cup special, joining the Cirque du Soleil and, of course, making things from yoghurt pots and sticky-backed plastic.

Lorraine Baker

Her uncle Joe Baker, was also an International footballer, earning eight England caps between 1959 and 1966.

Malcolm Waldron

He was voted Saints' "Player of the Season" for 1978-79 and in the following season he was called up for the England B team against New Zealand.

Rebecca Loos

When the former England football captain David Beckham moved to Real Madrid, Loos became his personal assistant during the transition period, alongside SFX agent and the former Australian international footballer Andy Bernal, who spoke Spanish fluently.

San Canzian d'Isonzo

It is also the birthplace of Italian footballer and former England manager Fabio Capello.

Soccer Comes First

The book begins with retired England striker Andy Blair who has recently moved to the town of Scorton watching the local team struggle in a Second Division match.

Stewart Kennedy

He was capped five times by Scotland in the 1974-75 season, his last appearance coming in a 5-1 defeat to England at Wembley.

Toni Fritsch

He scored two goals when Austria defeated England 3-2 in London's Wembley Stadium on October 20, 1965, from which his nickname "Wembley-Toni" is derived.

Wes Saunders

He subsequently became a player agent and his players included former England international Paul Gascoigne.


1962–63 in English football

3 October 1962: The England national football team competes in the European Football Championships for the first time, beginning the qualifiers for the 1964 European Nations' Cup with a 1-1 draw against France in the qualifying round first leg at Hillsborough.

1973–74 Football League

Don Revie marked his last season as Leeds United's manager by guiding them to league championship glory, before taking over from Sir Alf Ramsey as the England national football team manager, with England having failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup.

Adam Henley

Henley qualifies for Wales (as his mother is Welsh), England (under residency rules) and the United States, as he was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Ali Bin Nasser

He refereed the match between Argentina and England in the 1986 FIFA World Cup, where the "Hand of God" and "the Best goal of the Century" both by Diego Maradona in the same match, winning the quarter-finals over England.

Andy Woodman

He is a close friend of ex-England international and ex-Middlesbrough manager Gareth Southgate, with whom he has written a book about life in the youth ranks of Crystal Palace, their first club.

Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird

Although he was born in Kensington, London, as son of an old Perthshire family Kinnaird also played for Scotland, winning his solitary cap against England in the second ever international, played in 1873 at The Oval.

Barry Bridges

Barry John Bridges (born 29 April 1941 in Horsford, Norfolk) is an English former footballer who played in the Football League for Chelsea, Birmingham City, Queens Park Rangers, Millwall and Brighton & Hove Albion and was capped four times for England.

Beverley Sisters

Joy married Billy Wright on 28 July 1958 at Poole Register Office; Wright was the first footballer to play for England 100 times.

Billy Hendry

It was also said that Hendry's advice and guidance helped the natural talents of Ernest Needham, who was to become an England international.

Bobby Davidson

He additionally took charge of the match between England and the Rest of the World in October 1963 which celebrated the centenary of The Football Association, and refereed the 1975 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup Final between Dynamo Kiev and Ferencváros.

Bodo Illgner

In the semifinal, Illgner saved a Stuart Pearce shot in the penalty shootout against England, and West Germany would overcome Argentina in the deciding game, where he would keep a clean sheet (1–0).

Bogdan Dotchev

Dotchev was a linesman in the game between England and Argentina in 1986 in which the Hand of God and Goal of the Century were scored by Diego Maradona.

Carly Cole

Carly married England footballer, Joe Cole on 20 June 2009 in Chelsea, London, where she wore a £10,000 wedding dress by designer Oscar de la Renta.

Craig Hignett

He has recently starred in Sky1's Premier League All Stars, in which he helped Middlesbrough beat Newcastle, and represented England in the 2009 Home Nations Masters Cup despite having not won a full international cap.

Dirty Hit

The label was set up by James Oborne, Brian Smith, and former England footballer, Ugo Ehiogu.

Dudley Museum and Art Gallery

The room features a great deal of memorabilia connected to local football legend and Busby Babe Duncan Edwards, who was born in the town in 1936, and won two Football League title medals with Manchester United and was capped 18 times by the England national football team until he died from injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster in February 1958, when still only 21.

Ernie Blenkinsop

Blenkinsop caught the eye of the Football Association selectors who choose him to play for England in a friendly match in France on 17 May 1928, at the Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, it turned out to be a debut to remember as the English taught the French a lesson in football, beating them by a resounding 5–1 scoreline.

Football in San Marino

They had a brief moment of glory when they faced England in a World Cup qualifier on November 17, 1993 and took the lead through Davide Gualtieri after just 8.3 seconds - still the fastest goal in World Cup competition.

Frank Skinner

The duo also co-wrote and performed the football song "Three Lions" with the Lightning Seeds and the England national football team for Euro 96, and re-released it for the 1998 World Cup.

Gerry Francis

With the resignation of Graham Taylor as England national football team manager in November 1993 following failure to qualify for the World Cup, Francis was one of the many names linked to the vacancy, but the job went to Terry Venables instead.

Graham Doggart

He appeared in the Cambridge football XI in 1920 and 1921, gained a full international cap for England versus Belgium in 1924 and took part in four Amateur Internationals.

Harry Newbould

In 1906 financial pressures led Derby's directors to sell England international Steve Bloomer to Middlesbrough.

Henryk Kasperczak

During the tournament, Kasperczak was fired and replaced by Ali Selmi, after Tunisia lost the chance to pass the group stage, losing to England (0–2) and Colombia (0–1).

Johnny Wheeler

He did gain his one and only England cap in 1954, however, when Walter Winterbottom selected him to play in a British Home Championship match against Northern Ireland at Windsor Park, Belfast, goals from Johnny Haynes and Don Revie where enough the gain England a 2–0 win.

Lingdale

Birthplace of Bobby Smith, former Spurs and England centre-forward, who played in their double-winning side of 1961, and scored in the FA Cup Final, on two separate occasions.

Ned Barkas

He came from a footballing family: his brother Sam played for and captained England, a cousin, Billy Felton, also played for England, and three other brothers Tommy, James and Harry were professional footballers.

Olaf Thon

Subsequently, he was selected for the squads at three FIFA World Cups, helping the nation win the tournament in the 1990 edition in Italy: after only six minutes against Colombia in the group stage (1–1), he played the entire semifinal against England, also scoring in his penalty shootout attempt (1–1 after 120 minutes).

Old Foresters F.C.

During this era, two Old Foresters players were selected to represent EnglandPercy Fairclough in 1878 and Fred Pelly, three times in 1893 and 1894.

Percy Fairclough

In 1878, shortly after his twentieth birthday, he was selected by England for the match at Hampden Park, Glasgow against Scotland on 2 March.

Peter Shreeves

From 1993 to 1996 he was assistant manager at Chelsea before Glenn Hoddle became England manager and Ruud Gullit did not include Shreeves in his management team.

Rangemore

The National Football Centre (NFC) of the English National Team received planning permission and funding from the Football Association in late 2010 to develop the nearby Byrkley Lodge site.

Ron Suart

While at Blackpool, he also helped to unearth future England internationals Alan Ball, Ray Charnley, and Emlyn Hughes, though with the abolition of the maximum wage and the new freedom which players had, he was unable to prevent many of his star players moving on.

Stadio Renato Dall'Ara

The stadium was also witness to the World Cup competition's quickest goal ever scored, by Davide Gualtieri of San Marino, taking 8.3 seconds to put his team ahead against England.

Stadio Sant'Elia

Although it was denied by local and FIFA organisers, it was widely rumoured that the stadium had been chosen for all of England's group matches as a way to control their reputation at the time for hooliganism.

Super Formation Soccer 94

Using two special codes, the player will have access to the special/hidden teams which didn't take part in the 1994 World Cup: England, Wales, Uruguay, Denmark and France.

Tony Morley

Morley won six caps for England, but his career fell into decline after not being picked for any of their games at the 1982 World Cup.

Werner Kohlmeyer

In one of his last games for Germany, Kohlmeyer faced Stanley Matthews at Wembley on 1 December 1954, in an international friendly between England and West Germany.

Woodside, Dudley

Duncan Edwards, who played for Manchester United and England, and died in the Munich air disaster of 1958, was born in a house on Malvern Crescent on 1 October 1936, but grew up two miles away on the Priory Estate.

Wrotham Park, Hertfordshire

Chelsea and England footballer Ashley Cole and Girls Aloud singer Cheryl Tweedy had their wedding blessed at Wrotham Park on 15 July 2006 – they weren't allowed to have their wedding there because Wrotham Park does not have a licence to hold civil weddings.