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    The England Quiz Book
    The England Quiz Book
    The England Quiz Book
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    The England Quiz Book

    By Adam Pearson

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    All England fans beware! You may think you know all there is to know about the England team, but to answer the 1,000 fiendish questions in this quiz book you will need to cast your minds back well over a century, right back to the beginnings of international football in 1872. Guaranteed to challenge the knowledge of even the most ardent England fan and covering every Cup, Tour, Tournament and Championship imaginable, as well as managers, greats, records, top goalscorers, debuts, hat-trick heroes and a mountain of general trivia, ‘corner’ might take on a whole new meaning as you are banished to it wearing a dunce’s hat. With a fitting foreword by Tony Adams, a veritable treasure trove of facts and figures will be at your fingertips if not on your tongue, sparking fond reminiscences of the legendary characters and match highs and lows that have shaped the history of English football.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherApex Publishing Limited
    Release dateJul 8, 2011
    ISBN9781908548672
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      The England Quiz Book - Adam Pearson

      Title Page

      THE ENGLAND QUIZ BOOK

      Compiled by Adam Pearson

      Foreword by Tony Adams

      Publisher Information

      First published in 2007, updated and reprinted in 2008 by

      Apex Publishing Ltd

      PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea, Essex, CO15 5WN, England

      www.apexpublishing.co.uk

      Digital Edition converted and distributed in 2011 by

      Andrews UK Limited

      www.andrewsuk.com

      Copyright © 2007-2008 by Adam Pearson

      The author has asserted his moral rights

      All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition, that no part of this book is to be reproduced, in any shape or form. Or by way of trade, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, without prior permission of the copyright holder.

      Production Manager: Chris Cowlin

      Cover Design/Illustration: Alister Pearson

      Dedication

      For my daughter Isabella,

      who timed her arrival in this world

      perfectly (8 June) to enable me to watch

      the 2006 World Cup.

      Foreword

      I must say I was delighted to be asked to provide the foreword for this England quiz book and it is a real pleasure to accept.

      I was born in 1966, a year every fan will remember as England winning the World Cup trophy at Wembley against West Germany, 4-2. I always wanted to play for my country as I thought it would be great to represent England at the highest level.

      I first made my England debut in February 1987 against Spain in a 4-2 win – what a fantastic experience it is to play for your country and I was only 20-years-old. Well, 66 caps in total and my final appearance for England was in 2000, against Germany, a 1-0 defeat (the last ever match to be played at Wembley Stadium). I was also fortunate to captain my country during Euro ‘96, which is one of the best experiences of my football career. What a lot of people don’t know is I was the last England player to score at Wembley Stadium, in a 2-0 victory against Ukraine.

      I have been so lucky to play in the same team as some world-class players for Arsenal and England as well as some great managers; Bobby Robson, Gary Lineker, David Platt, Alan Shearer, Paul Gascoinge to name a few – I have also played against the best players in the world during World Cup and European Championship matches.

      When I read through this book I was amazed at all the facts and figures on the England football team, it brought back some great memories from some fantastic matches and players who have worn the three lions on their shirt. This book will test your knowledge to see how big a fan you are and see how much you remember from the past years; the 1,000 questions cover everything from players to World Cup tournaments.

      I am delighted that by writing this foreword the publishers, Apex Publishing Ltd and the compiler Adam Pearson, have agreed to donate £1 from each book sale to ‘The Sporting Chance Clinic’. As a result of my experiences with alcohol and drug addiction, I founded the Sporting Chance Clinic, which is a charitable foundation aimed at providing treatment, counselling and support for sports men and women suffering from drink, drug or gambling addictions. For more information on the clinic please see the back of this book.

      I hope you enjoy this book as much as I did!

      Tony Adams MBE

      66 England Caps

      Introduction

      As football fans, we are all partisan about our own clubs. Most of us have rival fans that we are either jealous of or just detest because they hate us. There is but one thing that will unite the common supporter - the national team. For, no matter what colours we may wear on a Saturday, most of us sport an England shirt or a St George flag when England are playing in a tournament somewhere. Manchester United may be right to claim that they are the most supported team in the world, but the most supported team in this country is England.

      I have, of course, seen my own club play live hundreds of times but have only had the opportunity to see England play once. I am quite lucky, as most England fans have only ever seen them play on television.

      While researching this book I found that my earliest memory of the national team was on 16 April 1975 when England played Cyprus in a European Championship qualifier at Wembley. That game had a particular significance for a certain Newcastle United striker, but I don’t want to answer one of the questions that you will face later. It was also one of the last games in an England shirt for World Cup winner Alan Ball, whom I would later see play many times at The Dell for Southampton.

      I was born a few weeks before England won the World Cup and I envy those people who can remember watching and celebrating that victory. Every two years we fans are given hope only to find that fortune never seems to be on our side - perhaps a long-term curse for the huge piece of luck that a certain Russian linesman bestowed on us in 1966. A famous England anthem rang out, ‘thirty years of hurt’, in 1996. A more fitting lyric now would probably now be ‘forty years of frustration’.

      However, England have the longest international history in the world, along with their original (and less successful) opponents, and, as you will find out in this book, there have been hundreds of memorable things to recall about our footballing heritage.

      So read on, and I hope that this book will challenge you, interest you and educate you on our England team.

      Adam Pearson

      Questions

      England Time-Line

      1. Who is the man that instigated international football in 1872?

      2. In which country was the first ever international football match contested?

      3. What was the final score of the first ever meeting between England and Scotland?

      4. In 1879 England played a new opponent. Who was that?

      5. What place in England’s history does James Forrest hold?

      6. In what year did actual caps begin being awarded for appearances for England?

      7. In March 1890, England beat Wales 3-1 and Ireland 9-1. What made these victories all the more unusual?

      8. Who were England’s first opponents outside of the British Isles in 1908?

      9. In 1922, Max Woosnam won an England cap when he played against Wales. In what other annual famous sporting event did he compete successfully in 1920?

      10. In which year did England first compete in

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