Famous Matches
Below are our 16 articles in the famous matches' category:
On a summer tour of the continent in 1929, a well-drilled Spanish international side team became the first nation from outside the British Isles to...
On November the 14th 1934 Italy played England at Highbury, Arsenal’s ground, in a ‘friendly’. So inappropriate was that title that the match became...
England played Czechoslovakia in December 1937 and in a nine goal thriller, England, effectively playing with only ten, or even nine men, narrowly...
The day that everything went right for the England side, a 10-0 drubbing of Portugal in the first meeting between the two sides, the first match that...
Hailed as England’s best performance on foreign oil, possibly the most skilful forward line ever, backed up by an inspirational defence and...
The devastation demolition of English individuals by one of the great teams of the twentieth century, Ferenc Puskas and his Mighty Magyars, the first...
Late in the afternoon of Saturday 30th July 1966 the captain of the English football team Bobby Moore took the Jules Rimet trophy from the Queen of...
Going into the 1970 World Cup in Mexico, England and Brazil were generally accepted to be the two strongest teams in the world and the fact that they...
The traumatic draw with Poland at Wembley on 17th October 1973 which saw Poland qualify for the 1974 World Cup at England’s expense, consigning...
The lead up to the 1986 World Cup quarter-final match between England and Argentina was one that any England fan would recognise. Not really...
England were to come good at the right time in the later stages of the 1990 World Cup. The team were beginning to gel, but then they ran into the...
The story of the Euro 1996 group match between England and Scotland, where Gary McAllister missed the penalty that would have put Scotland right back...
Germany took their retribution for their defeat at Euro 2000 in the cruellest fashion, beating England in the opening 2002 World Cup qualifier to...
Few people in England and even fewer in Germany, were ready for what was in store on a warm September night in Munich, 2001. For the third time in...
The footballing rivalry between England and Germany has always loomed larger in England than in Germany, where they see the Netherlands as their most...
The shock of the 1950 World Cup if not the century, was this defeat of mighty England by a scratch team from the USA. It is widely believed to be the...
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