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England Football Team Quiz
Easy Questions
Most of these are taken from the last twenty years so younger team members are more likely to be able to get them.
Ol> b> Who is the youngest...
England Friendly Matches
England Friendly Matches Played: 329
Won: 185
Drawn: 79
Lost: 65
Friendly matches: a valuable opportunity for managers to try...
England's Dream Team
Any dream team selection will always provoke controversy. There are so many great players and any selection will provoke argument based on the era that people remember...
England's World Cup 2010 Qualifying
When England's qualifying group for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was drawn out of the hat it sent shivers down the spines of England football fans. Once more...
Footie Facts
b> /b>The first official inter-nation football game was between England and Scotland at the West of Scotland Cricket Club at Partick in Glasgow, on 30th November 1872....
Forgotten Heroes
England’s greatest footballing achievement is of course, the lifting of the World Cup trophy by Bobby Moore at Wembley in 1966. Many of Moore’s team-mates, such as...
Greatest England Songs
There’s always been a tradition of singing at football matches right from the beginning, and many of the tunes sung on terraces now (or what used to be terraces) are...
Penalties!!
There was a time when the world of English football was untroubled by penalty shootouts but unfortunately that time was about twenty years ago.
The first penalty...
So Close To Victory at Italia 90
Italia 90 saw the pinnacle of the team building that England manager Bobby Robson had been performing since the previous World Cup where his England team had gone out to...
The Beginning of The World Cup
The first World Cup tournament was played in Uruguay in 1930 but the seeds had been sown over twenty-five years before then. Football had really grown incredibly...
The England Team Strip
A new England strip now comes out every year either home or away, and woe betide any fan who steps out in last year's kit. But, as you’ll be unsurprised to hear, it...
The European Championship
The European Championship these days is nearly as big an event for European teams as the World Cup but it wasn’t always that way. The first Championship wasn’t until...
The Munich Air Disaster
It was a fitting tribute, the one minute of silence before the Manchester derby game on Saturday 10th February 2008. Despite fears voiced by Manchester City's...
Why are they Called Caps?
The short answer is that they really are caps that is, ones that you wear on your head. The term has evolved to a point where it is now used to mean an appearance for a...
