Famous Matches

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 defeat England at the game she had invented, ...

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 known as the ‘Battle of Highbury’. Italy were ...

England played Czechoslovakia in December 1937 and in a nine goal thriller, England, effectively playing with only ten, or even nine men, narrowly managed to overcome a strong inter-passing Czech ...

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 saw the England Selection Committee finally pick ...

Hailed as England’s best performance on foreign oil, possibly the most skilful forward line ever, backed up by an inspirational defence and goal-keeping partnership, went to Turin and demolished the ...

The devastation demolition of English individuals by one of the great teams of the twentieth century, Ferenc Puskas and his Mighty Magyars, the first home defeat by a team from outside the British ...

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 England and lifted it above his head, acknowledging ...

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 had to meet in a group match first did nothing to ...

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 England to the World Cup wilderness for the next ...

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 considered a side capable of winning the trophy England ...

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 “Indomitable Lions” of the Cameroon national side. ...

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 in it, and Gazza sealed the win with one of the ...

Germany took their retribution for their defeat at Euro 2000 in the cruellest fashion, beating England in the opening 2002 World Cup qualifier to demonstrate that they had started the rebuilding ...

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 little over a year England were to face Germany in a ...

The footballing rivalry between England and Germany has always loomed larger in England than in Germany, where they see the Netherlands as their most intense rivalry. But that didn't stop the ...

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 lowest point of England’s international ...