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Brighton’s Peter Ward made his England debut as an 85th minute sub against Australia in Sydney – he never played for England again! Did You Know..... ...Forest spelt Forrest, Halifax spelt Hailfax, Millwall became Millwall Athletic, Gillingham became Gillingham United, wrong dates...... just some of the mistakes on the front of programmes Read more about this and other programme facts and figures ... Click on The Football Programme Miscellany Web footballsite.co.uk

Football may be the major attraction to Wembley but over the years the famous stadium has hosted some weird and wonderful events, perhaps the most weird being back in 1961. A 150-foot tower was built at one end of the ground and then on May 31st (one session) and June 1st (two sessions) some 50 tons of ice was crushed into artificial snow each session and spread to a depth of 6 inches on the bottom slope of the tower. And then the paying spectators watched ski-jumping. Really!