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8th September 1888: First ever Football League matches take place

8th September 2019
Tagged as: Britain, England, Football, Sport

On the 8^th September 1888, the very first Football League games were played in England.

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2nd June 1962: Chile and Italy meet in the World Cup’s violent ‘Battle of Santiago’

2nd June 2019
Tagged as: Chile, FIFA, Football, Italy, Newspaper, Sport, Violence, World Cup

Chile and Italy met in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, which resulted in ‘the most stupid, appalling, disgusting and disgraceful exhibition of football possibly in the history of the game’.

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28th April 1923: Wembley Stadium opens with West Ham v Bolton Wanderers

28th April 2019
Tagged as: Britain, Culture, Football, Horse, Police, Sport

On 28^th April 1923, the original Wembley Stadium in London opened with the FA Cup Final between Bolton Wanderers and West Ham United.

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15th April 1989: 96 Liverpool fans killed in the Hillsborough Disaster

15th April 2019
Tagged as: Britain, Culture, disaster, England, Football, Liverpool, Sport

Ninety-six Liverpool Football Club fans died and hundreds more were injured in a crush at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield.

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6th February 1958: Munich air disaster kills Manchester Utd players

6th February 2019
Tagged as: Aircraft, Britain, Culture, Football, Germany, Sport, Yugoslavia

On the 6^th February 1958, British European Airways flight 609 crashed at Munich-Riem Airport while carrying the Manchester United football team, supporters and journalists.

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12th March 1881: Andrew Watson becomes the world’s first black international football player

12th March 2018
Tagged as: Andrew Watson, Culture, Football, Scotland, Sport

Andrew Watson’s father, Peter Miller Watson, was the manager of a sugar plantation in British Guiana while his mother was a local woman called Anna (or Hannah) Rose.