England football team quiz questions

3) Which club supplied the most players to the England squad at Italia 1990 World Cup?

Stringfellows?

Toon >

Eriksen?
Germany, USA, Brazil?
Notts Forest?

Not Newcastle or Forest.

Sven is incorrect.

Qu 2) There are just four countries against whom England have more losses than wins. Brazil is correct. Not Ger, USA

England's record against Brazil:

W 4
D 11
L 11

More losses vs Spain?

Not Spain.

W,D,L

Ger 7, 2, 7
W Ger 6, 4, 6
Spain 12, 4, 9
USA 7, 1, 2

argentina, portugal, france perhaps.

england manager have no idea my best guess would be terry venables.

most england players supplied in 1990 from spurs?

ok can i add uruguay to the mix

maybe sweden....although we've played them a lot so it's likely that we've got a positive record.

could be someone obscure

Terry Venables is correct:

W 11, D 11, L 1

italy?

LR - not Swe, Arg, Fra, Por.

Uruguay is correct. WD

Italy - correct!

yeah i looked him up (after i put it here i might add ) and his win/loss rate was extremely good.

seems that most england managers get unfairly lambasted, when in reality if you lose 1 game in 4 as an england manager you're not doing too badly compared to others.

W, D, L

Arg 6, 5, 2
Brazil 4, 11, 11
Ger 7, 2, 7
W Ger 6, 4, 6
Italy 8, 9, 10
Por 10, 10, 3
Spain 12, 4, 9
Swe 8, 9, 7
Urug 3, 3, 5
USA 7, 1, 2

W, D, L

Arg 6, 5, 2
Brazil 4, 11, 11
Fra 17, 5, 9
Ger 7, 2, 7
W Ger 6, 4, 6
Italy 8, 9, 10
Por 10, 10, 3
Spain 12, 4, 9
Swe 8, 9, 7
Urug 3, 3, 5
USA 7, 1, 2

could be someone obscure  (the fourth team we have a negative record against)


Maybe surprising but not really obscure. We've played them 11 times.

England have contested matches against over 80 national teams. England have not lost to 50 of them, having earned a perfect winning percentage against 26 of the teams. England have also never beaten five teams.

Poland ?

Not Poland


W, D, L

Arg 6, 5, 2
Brazil 4, 11, 11
Fra 17, 5, 9
Ger 7, 2, 7
W Ger 6, 4, 6
Italy 8, 9, 10
Pol 11, 7, 1
Por 10, 10, 3
Spain 12, 4, 9
Swe 8, 9, 7
Urug 3, 3, 5
USA 7, 1, 2

Netherlands

Not Netherlands


W, D, L

Arg 6, 5, 2
Brazil 4, 11, 11
Fra 17, 5, 9
Ger 7, 2, 7
W Ger 6, 4, 6
Italy 8, 9, 10
Neth 6, 9, 6
Pol 11, 7, 1
Por 10, 10, 3
Spain 12, 4, 9
Swe 8, 9, 7
Urug 3, 3, 5
USA 7, 1, 2

It seems that having a negative balance against four countries is very good.

Brazil have only three but Italy have eight. Germany and Netherlands have similar numbers. Can't find Uruguay's all-time record

answer to Q3 -Rangers

Could it be Eire

OOOPs losses more than wins then it could be Rumania I don't remember us beating them

WD Pump. Romania is correct.


W, D, L

Arg 6, 5, 2
Brazil 4, 11, 11
Fra 17, 5, 9
Ger 7, 2, 7
W Ger 6, 4, 6
Italy 8, 9, 10
Neth 6, 9, 6
Pol 11, 7, 1
Por 10, 10, 3
Rom 2, 6, 3
Spain 12, 4, 9
Swe 8, 9, 7
Urug 3, 3, 5
USA 7, 1, 2

The answer to Q3 is Glasgow Rangers. Wd, Smirnoff. (Unless you meant QPR)


The five teams England have never beaten:

Algeria
Ghana
Honduras
Saudi Arabia
South Korea

I think England's relatively poor performance in the World Cup has to be put in the context that had we entered in 1930, 1934 and 1938 and the 1942 and 1946 tournaments hadn't been cancelled, we'd have won it at least three times in total.

Cant see that myself Nick, we may have seen invincible back in the day & yes England never lost at home till the 1950's but I dont think we were that good in all honesty.

There's no emoticon for irony so I use the plain smiley.

As far as I know, we didn't enter in the 1930s because of the various political and economic crises around the world. The Foreigh Office were of the opinion that defeat on the football pitch would undermine our overall image of strength across the globe.

Fwiw, shortly after winning the World Cup in 1934, Italy came over to play England at Highbury. England won 3-2.

Having said that, we lost to Czechoslvakia (losing finalists) shortly before the tournament.


Cant see that myself Nick, we may have seen invincible back in the day & yes England never lost at home till the 1950's but I dont think we were that good in all honesty


Actually, I think you mean to an overseas team. We definitely lost at home to Wales and Scotland in the 1930s.

In fact, Scotland were pretty good in the 30s and until the 1980s, they had recorded more wins against us than we had against them.

Just been looking through the results...

Scotland would regularly beat us at home prior to 1900.


Actually, the first overseas team to beat us at home were Rep of Ireland in 1949.  We lost 6-3 at home to Hungary in 1953.

Ireland also beat us at home in 1914 but were still part of the UK at the time.

Actually when I said never lost at home meant to say  they had never lost at Wembley till Hungary stuffed us in 1953, also think our 1970 team was better than the 66 team & most likely would not have won if played anywhere else, we actually played every game at Wembley in 66, anyway  its just my opinion for what its worth.

First defeat at Wembley was 5-1 to Scotland (1928).

The home defeat to ROI was at Goodison.

First defeat at Wembley to an overseas team, Hungary, 1953.