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On this day in football history

1908 England met Hungary for the first time and won 7-1 in Budapest. Hilsdon(4), Rutherford, Woodward and Windridge scored the goals. Almost 50 years later Hungary avenged the defeat by the same score also in Budapest.

1925 Herbert Chapman left Huddersfield to begin ten outstanding years as manager of Arsenal.

1954 Nottingham Forest signed Ron Blackman, a prolific goalscoring centre-forward, from Reading. He had joined Reading in 1946 and had become a regular in their Third Division South team in 1949-50. In the following two seasons he scored 35 and 39 goals the latter being a club record for a League season. When he left he had scored 156 goals in 218 League matches and a further nine goals in the FA Cup. He had one season with Forest (3 goals in 11 matches) and then two seasons with Ipswich Town (12 goals in 25 matches) before retiring in 1957.

1960 Tommy Walker was awarded the O.B.E. for services to the game. Joined Heart of Midlothian in 1932, made his debut in September of that year and won his first Scotland cap in 1934 and was their youngest ever international at the time. Eventually made 26 official international appearances as well as many wartime ones. Joined Chelsea in 1946 and returned to Hearts in 1947 retiring at the end of that season. He then became assistant manager at the club and subsequently manager. Under his guidance they won both the League and the Scottish Cup; their first major honours in over half a century. In his playing career he scored 131 goals in 334 Scottish and Football League matches.

1976 Wales were banned from the European Championships until 1982 following crowd trouble during their match against Yugoslavia. The ban was later lifted and was applied to matches at Wrexham only.