It was meant to be the perfect occasion. One last match at Wembley Stadium for England – and a crucial one, a World Cup qualifier against their oldest rivals, Germany.

Instead it turned into the hosts’ worst nightmare as the team delivered a performance almost tailor-made to force coach Kevin Keegan into exile.

Keegan was an awful England manager, one of the worst ever and he admitted as much immediately after the game as he quit live in his post-match TV interviews.

Dietmar Hamann’s free-kick squirmed past aged keeper David Seaman, the keeper marking his own Wembley farewell with a blunder, and the sole goal was enough. Enter Sven-Goran Eriksson.

Other memorable events on this day…

2003: Rio Ferdinand was omitted from the England squad to face Turkey in their crucial Euro 2004 qualifier after failing to attend a drugs test.

2007: Scotland lost 19-13 to Argentina in the quarter-finals of the Rugby World Cup in Paris.

2010: Rebecca Adlington won a swimming gold medal in the women’s 800m freestyle final at the Commonwealth Games.

2012: West Indies won the ICC World Twenty20 title, beating Sri Lanka by 36 runs in the final.