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March 21, 2004Questions & answers
Your sporting conundrums solvedQ When was the first football fixture between Wales and England, and where was it played?
Derek Griffiths, Wrexham
A Wales played their first international match in 1876, with Scotland providing the opposition. The Welsh played one international in each of the next two years, both against Scotland. Then on January 18, 1879 — four days before the Battle of Rorke’s Drift in the Zulu War — Wales played England for the first time, losing 2-1 at Kennington Oval, London. The next year, England played Wales at The Racecourse Ground in Wrexham, winning 3-2. In 1881 Wales scored their first international victory, and their first over England, when they won 1-0 at Blackburn with a goal from John Vaughan of Oswestry. The two countries then met annually up to and including 1914, when the first world war brought a temporary halt to the fixture.
Alan Hughes, St Asaph
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