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
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England Football Team
The Heritage Foundation website mentions a plaque to him unveiled in 2000 by ...
Laurie Cunningham, 1956 - 1989, football legend, pioneering England internati...
Ron Greenwood, CBE, 1921 - 2006, manager of West Ham United and England. Spor...
A player at the London Welsh Rugby Football Club who was killed in WW1.
Athlete. Born John Michael Landy in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Forty-six days after Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile, he broke the record again. He is probably best remembere...
Despite extensive research we have been unable to trace a Henry Ince Webb-Bowen who played for the London Welsh Rugby Club, who was born in 1878 and who died in 1915 in WW1. We believe whoever comm...
Person, Armed Forces, Law, Sport / Games, Egypt, India, South Africa, Turkey, Wales
Invented, developed and patented by Wingfield. The Wimbledon championships began in 1877 and are the world's oldest tennis tournament.
Writing her book 'Eat Sweat Play: How Sport Can Change Our Lives' Anna Kessel, was shocked at the lack of recognition for sportswomen from the past. Hence the Blue Plaque Rebellion, set up with the...
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