ON THIS DAY

At last some good news for England fans - England won the World Cup final! Well, the Under-20 version that is but a great achievement secured with a first-half goal from Dominic Calvert-Lewin and a brilliant second-half penalty save from Freddie Woodman. That saw England beat Venezuela 1-0 in the final in Suwon in South Korea to claim their first world footballing title since 1966. Inevitably the English press seemed to indicate the the winning players would do exactly the same in the grown-up World Cup of 2022. We live in hope - as always - but these are the players who won the 2017 final, let's see how they develop in the years to 2022....Freddie Woodman (Newcastle) , Jonjoe Kenny (Everton) , Lewis Cook (Bournemouth) , Fikayo Tomori (Chelsea) , Jake Clarke-Salter (Chelsea) , Josh Onomah (Tottenham) , Dominic Solanke (Chelsea) , Ademola Lookman (Everton) , Kyle Walker-Peters (Tottenham) , Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Everton) , Kieran Dowell (Everton). The subs were Ainsley Maitland-Niles (Arsenal) for Lookman and Sheyi Ojo (Liverpool) for Dowell with Paul Simpson being the Alf Ramsey of the side.

Bobby Charlton became Sir Bobby Charlton with the announcement of a knighthood for the former Manchester United and England player in the Queen's Birthday honours list. The award was for services to football generally although he became the first England player from the 1966 World Cup winning team to be knighted. 'Everybody calls me Bobby and that won't change ' he said.

England played the Republic of Ireland in the group stage of the 1990 World Cup finals in Italy - and England striker Gary Lineker later admitted that he suffered the 'most horrendous' experience of his life in that match. No point beating about the bush - he didn't feel well and lost control of his bowels - and shit on the pitch! So lets have a look at that incredibly embarrassing moment ..... Still England drew 1-1 and both England and Ireland qualified for the knock-out stages with England reaching the semis. I reckon if fertilising the pitch in that way is the secret of England doing well in the World Cup all 11 England players should be doing it!

A late finish to the season for Newcastle United who were in Hungary to play the second leg of their Inter-Cities Fairs Cup Final - a forerunner of the Europa League - against Újpesti Dózsa. They won 3-2 on the night and 6-2 on aggregate to win the competition in their debut season in Europe. Newcastle's team that evening - McFaul, Craig, Clark, Gibb, Burton, Moncur, Scott (sub: Foggon), Arentoft, Robson, Davies, Sinclair.

Herbert Chapman became the manager of Arsenal. The most innovative manager of his time he turned the Gunners from a club who hadn’t won a thing into one of the leading clubs in the country.