Football Stories

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.

Who is the youngest player to have been capped for ...

England Friendly Matches Played: 329 Won: 185 Drawn: 79 Lost: 65 Friendly matches: a valuable opportunity for managers to try out new players and ...

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 best, the formation to be ...

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. The English ...

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 Gordon Banks, Bobby and Jack ...

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 based on hymns and tunes that ...

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 shootout in a major ...

Gascoigne’s tears, Lineker’s wonder goal, Pearce misses and Waddle clears the stadium, the semi-final against Germany in 1990 had it all as England went to their best tournament finish since winning ...

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 quickly, considering that ...

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 wasn’t always like that, and ...

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 1960, and the event was largely ...

The one minute silence at the Manchester derby in February 2008 was a fitting way to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the crash at Munich that had ripped the heart out of the United team and the ...

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 national side or some other ...