1000th TONIGHT

I am likely to be on an astro pitch this evening while the big game is going on. The Pennine weather is unlikely to stop our lads from training. Hmmm.
The papers have been full of famous international moments, reminding us of the importance of this next international v Montenegro. The game mention yesterday, to all intents was the first ever international game in the World-it was nice of us to involve the Scots. So in 1872 November 30th, at Hamilton Crescent, Partick England v Scotland was the first football international EVER.

In Match number 2, the Right Honorable Captain William Kenyon-Slaney of the Household Brigade, scored twice (the first goals ever) against the Scots in March 1873 at The Oval. He was the first England international not born in the British Isles to play-he was born in India.
One of the Scots played for the South Norwood Club. The formidable Lord A.F.Kinnaird played for the Scots and The Wanderers, H.W.Renny Tailyour, was with the Royal Engineers as was G.Blackburn; the rest were with Queen's Park or the Clydesdale Club. A crowd of 3,000 made it to the ground paying just over £106 in total in gate receipts.
Match number 14 saw the first hat trick when England beat Ireland 13-0 in Belfast in March 1873. Howard Vaughan scored 5 , Arthur Brown 4, but there were no "timings" kept.
Match 25 saw the first professional international with James Forrest of Blackburn Rovers playing having been paid £1 a week. This was v Scotland 1885 and the Scots insisted that Forrest wore a different coloured shirt to everyone else.
Match 95 was the first foreign international played outside the British Isles in Austria, a Summer tour in 1908.
Match 255  included the first substitution who was Jimmy Mullen who replaced Jackie Milburn, the very famous Newcastle Utd centre-forward, on May18 1950. This was against Belgium at Heysel, England winning 4-1.
Match 256 was England's World Cup game v Chile in Rio on June 25; Mortenson and Mannion scored. Billy Wright and Alf Ramsey were in the team.
Billy Wright won his 100th cap on April 11 1963 at Wembley; the 329th game,
Match 387 was the first floodlit game v Northern Ireland at Wembley on Nov 20th 1963. England won 8-3.
Match 409 was the FIFA World Cup Final at Wembley on July 30 1966.
Match 609 witnessed a defeat by Germany 2-1, their first game played indoors, in Detroit on June 19 1993, played on natural grass.
Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain scored at Wembley on October 12 2012. His dad, Mark, scored v Luxembourg in 1982-the first father/son combo.
Match 988 was the first England international played behind closed doors v Croatia 0-0 on October 12 2018.
Jordon Sancho is the first player born in the 21st century to play for England.
Below-Somebody's best XI!