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Monday, 29 March 1886
 British International Championship 1885-86 (3rd) Match
 
 Wales 1 England 3 [1-0]
   		originally due to be played on Monday, 22 March, postponed on 18 March.

The Racecourse, Mold Road, Wrexham, Denbighshire
 Kick-off (GMT): 'at three o'clock'; 'shortly after quarter past three'.
Attendance: 'about 3,000 spectators were present'.




Season Record
England's fourth visit to The Racecourse, to Wrexham, to Denbighshire and to Wales
Humphrey Jones won the toss Tinsley Lindley kicked-off
[0-0] Billy Lewis scores: disallowed offside
[1-0] Billy Lewis 42
 'from a pass by Jones, Lewis sent in a beautiful low shot evading Arthur'		  
  [1≡1] Andrew Amos free-kick 70-75
'England obtained a free-kick, Amos made a shot which Mills-Roberts in endeavouring to save put through his goal'
 [1-2] George Brann corner 'shortly after'
'from a corner'...'a shot was appealed against on the ground that the ball went through without being touched. The objection was disallowed'
[1-3] Fred Dewhurst ?
 'shot a third'.
"They played in fine, but bitterly cold, weather and with the turf in fairly good order."
  

Match Summary

Officials [umpires and referees are of equal relevance]

Wales

 Team Records

England
Umpires  
Nicholas Lane Jackson
 36 (1 November 1849), West Hackney, London (Corinthians FC) (FA Hon. Secretary)		 Richard Thomas Gough
26 (mid-1859), Worthen
(Welsh FA)
Referee
Thomas Lawrie
Scotland (SFA vice-President)
  

Wales Team
 
Rank No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 5th		 Colours Red collared shirts, white shorts, black socks
Captain Humphrey Jones Selection The Welsh Selection Committee, following a series of trial matches.
P 4 of 11 - W 2 - D 0 - L 2 - F 15 - A 13.
 
Wales Lineup
  Mills Roberts, Dr. Robert Herbert 23
236 days		 5 August 1862 G St. Thomas' Hospital, London & Corinthians FC, England 4 20ᵍᵃ
  Davies, Alfred Owen 23
114 days		 5 December 1862 RB Barmouth FC 2 0
will referee the 1889 Ireland match
  Powell, Seth 23
261 days		 11 July 1862 LB Oswestry FC 3 0
  Vaughan, John Owen 22
316 days		 17 May 1863 RHB

Rhyl FC

 3 0
  Bell, William Strafford 23
 219 days		 22 August 1860 CHB

Crewe Alexandra FC, England

 4 1
  Jones, Humphrey 23
112 days		 7 December 1862 LHB

Bangor FC

 5 1
will referee the 1896 Scotland match
  Wilding, Job 20
168 days		 12 October 1865 OR

Wrexham Olympic FC

 5 1
  Roberts, William 27
11 days		 18 March 1859 IR

Wrexham Olympic FC

 2 0
89   Davies, Thomas 20/21 1865
in Oswestry, England		 CF Oswestry FC 1 0
  Bryan, Thomas 19/20 1866
in Banbury, England		 IL Oswestry FC 2 1
Lewis, William 21/22 1864 OL

Bangor FC

 2 1
reserves: not known
team notes: Alf Davies is the uncle (by marriage) to the Walter brothers, Arthur and Percy.
 
2-3-5 Mills Roberts -
A.Davies, Powell -
Vaughan, Bell, Jones -
Wilding, Roberts, T.Davies, Bryan, Lewis
Averages: Age 22 years 288 days
-23 years 22 days		 Appearances/Goals 3.0 0.4

 

England Team
 
Rank No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 2nd		 Colours White shirts, navy blue knickerbockers

Captain		 Norman Bailey Selection The Football Association Committee, with Secretary Charles W. Alcock having the primary influence
P 13 of 15 - W 5 - D 3 - L 5 - F 34 - A 25. P 28 of 31, W 12 - D 5 - L 11 - F 84 - A 58
most captaincies so far ¹ team chosen at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet Street, on Friday evening, 19 March 1886
England Lineup
 (two changes to the previous match)
  Arthur, W.J. Herbert 23
43 days		 14 February 1863 G Blackburn Rovers FC 5 4ᵍᵃ
  Squire, Ralph T. 22
186 days		 10 September 1863 RB Cambridge University AFC, Old Westminsters AFC & Corinthians FC 3 0
final app 1886
  Walters, Percy M. 21
62 days		 30 September 1863 LB Old Carthusians AFC & Corinthians FC 5 0
  Bailey, Norman C. 28
248 days		 23 July 1857 RHB
 

Clapham Rovers FC & Corinthians FC

 17 1
 
oldest player to represent England competitively so far most experienced captain & most apps
Amos, Andrew 22
190 days		 20 September 1863 CHB Cambridge University AFC, Old Carthusians AFC & Corinthians FC 2 1
final app 1885-86
  Forrest, James H. 21
278 days		 24 June 1864 LHB

Blackburn Rovers FC

 6 0
Dewhurst, Frederick 22
103 days		 16 December 1863 OR

Preston North End FC & Corinthians FC

 2 2
Brann, George 20
340 days		 23 April 1865 IR Swifts FC & Corinthians FC 2 1
  Lindley, Tinsley 20
153 days		 27 October 1865 CF Nottingham Forest FC, Cambridge University AFC & Corinthians FC 3 2
  Cobbold, W. Nevill 23
53 days		 4 February 1863 IL Cambridge University AFC, Old Carthusians AFC & Corinthians FC 6 3
  Bambridge, E. Charles 27
242 days		 30 July 1858 OL

Swifts FC & Corinthians FC

 15 12
most gls
reserves: not known
team changes: Francis Ingram (Old Westminsters AFC & Corinthians FC) withdrew from the line-up before this match.
The original team stated that it was either Dewhurst or Ben Spilsbury was to play.
team notes: Percy Walters' brother, Arthur, also played for England in 1885.
Charlie Bambridge's brothers, Ernest, played for England in 1876, and Arthur in 1881-84.
appearance notes: Charlie Bambridge is the second England player to make fifteen appearances, whereas James Forrest and Nevill Cobbold are the eighth/ninth to make six. Herby Arthur with Percy Walters are the  fifteenth/sixteenth to make five.
37 players have now played for England three or more times, and 67 have done so more than once.
records: For only the second time in 13½ years, England played with no debutants, ensuring that they have now topped the six appearance per player ratio.
England have now gone on a record unbeaten sequence of seven matches, lasting two years.
Norman Bailey continues to hold on to and extend the world appearance record.
goalscoring records: For the first time, England score two equalising goals in two separate matches in the same season.
Of the 84 goals England have now scored, nine have been the result of equalisers.
 
2-3-5 Arthur -
Squire, Walters -
Amos, Forrest, Bailey -
Dewhurst, Brann, Lindley, Cobbold, Bambridge.
Averages: Age 23 years 85 days Appearances/Goals 6.0 1.7
most experienced team so far
 

       Match Report Nottingham Journal, Tuesday, 30 March 1886

The English eleven, after playing a drawn game with Scotland on Saturday, turned up at Wrexham yesterday to contest their annual match with the representatives of the Principality. The English team was the same as opposed Scotland, whilst the Welsh eleven was also the same as advertised. The weather was bitterly cold, and the attendance small. Wales won the toss, and played with the wind, and Lindley kicked off for England at three o'clock. Vaughan returned, and T. Davis, centring nicely, the play was taken in front of the English goal, when Squire kicked behind, conceding a corner. This was capitally put in by Vaughan, but the ball was headed away, and then for a time the game was pretty even. The English forwards passed beautifully, Brann, Lindley, and Bambridge playing a grand game. After about twenty minutes' play, Wilding centred well, and Lewis rushing up scored by a grand shot, the home team leading by a goal to nothing on changing ends. On resuming, Wales were sadly pressed, and England had several corner shots in succession. Shots innumerable were sent in, the English forwards swarming round the goal. The defence of the backs and half-backs, however, were first-class. After half an hour's play England had a free kick from 'hands,' and Amos equalised the score. Shortly afterwards Brann and Dewhurst both scored, and England won by three goals to one.
   

       Match Report The Times, Tuesday, 30 March 1886

Yesterday, at Wrexham, the eighth annual match under Association rules between England and Wales was played in fine weather and with the turf in fairly good order. Both sides showed good combination...
So well did they play that shortly before half-time was announced Lewis registered a goal for them. After ends had been changed, England severely pressed their opponents, and from a free kick near the Welsh posts Amos scored, the ball going through off the defending goalkeeper...
  
              In Other News....

It was on 29 March 1886 that the Prime Minister announced that the Irish Home Rule Bill would be read the following month.
  

      Source Notes
TheFA
Cris Freddi: Football Historian
Welsh Football Data Archive
Nick Gibbs' England: The Football Facts		   Ian Garland & Gareth M. Davies' Sons of Cambria
FreeBMD.org.uk
Rothmans Yearbooks
 Original newspaper reports
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