Famous before Tutankhamun - the first Egyptian imports in English football
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By Nick Harris 2 March 2010 England face Egypt tomorrow at Wembley in a fixture with only two previous meetings - a 4-0 friendly win for England in 1986 in Cairo and a 1-0 World Cup victory at Italia 90. But the Anglo-Egyptian football relationship goes further back than Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923.
Famous before Tutankhamun - the first Egyptian imports in English football
Famous before Tutankhamun - the first…
Famous before Tutankhamun - the first Egyptian imports in English football
By Nick Harris 2 March 2010 England face Egypt tomorrow at Wembley in a fixture with only two previous meetings - a 4-0 friendly win for England in 1986 in Cairo and a 1-0 World Cup victory at Italia 90. But the Anglo-Egyptian football relationship goes further back than Howard Carter’s discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1923.