Group    From 1870 

England Football Team

Categories: Sport / Games

The joint (along with Scotland) oldest national football team in the world. Its greatest success was winning the 1966 World Cup Championship - something it has been struggling to repeat ever since.

Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk

This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
England Football Team

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Bobby Moore

The Heritage Foundation website mentions a plaque to him unveiled in 2000 by ...

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Laurie Cunningham - E10

Laurie Cunningham, 1956 - 1989, football legend, pioneering England internati...

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Ron Greenwood

Ron Greenwood, CBE, 1921 - 2006, manager of West Ham United and England. Spor...

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Victor Hugo Watson

Victor Hugo Watson

Born near the Kennington Oval but his family returned to Yorkshire when he was very young and he saw himself as a Yorkshireman. In 1908 he joined Waddingtons, a printing firm which developed a spe...

Person, Politics & Administration, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Sir Henry Segrave

Sir Henry Segrave

World speed record holder. Born Maryland, USA. His American mother died when he was 2. His father was Irish and he was brought up in Britain. Took the land record in 1929. Then at Lake Windermere, ...

Person, Sport / Games, USA

1 memorial
First cricket test match in England

First cricket test match in England

Played between national teams, test matches are the longest and considered to be the highest standard. The first 3 officially recognised test matches took place in in Melbourne, Australia, in: 1877...

Event, Sport / Games

1 memorial
Sir Roger Bannister

Sir Roger Bannister

Athlete and doctor. Born Roger Gilbert Bannister in Harrow. While still a medical student, he won the mile event in the Oxford versus Cambridge match four times between 1947 and 1950, and was a fin...

Person, Medicine, Sport / Games, Finland

2 memorials
David Sheppard

David Sheppard

Cricketer and bishop. Born David Stuart Sheppard in Reigate, As a cricketer he played for Cambridge University, Sussex and England. He converted to Evangelical Christianity while at Cambridge, and ...

Person, Religion, Sport / Games

1 memorial