Walter Winterbottom's final match. Alf Ramsey watched from the stand in readiness to take over. There was a crowd of only 27,500 - the lowest to date for a Wembley international - to see England romp to a comfortable victory. Chelsea striker Bobby Tambling made his debut in the No. 11 jersey. Alan Peacock scored two goals, John Connelly one and Greaves netted the last goal of Winterbottom's reign. In the dressing-room after the match skipper Jimmy Armfield presented Walter with a set of crystal cut-glass goblets on behalf of the players. The toast was 'Walter Winterbottom, master manager.' He might have done even better had the amateur selectors left him alone to manage without interference. 

During his sixteen years in charge, Winterbottom's record was: P139 W78 D33 L28 F383 A196. 
The fifteen most-capped players during his reign were Billy Wright (105), Tom Finney (70), Johnny Haynes (56), Jimmy Dickinson (48), Bobby Charlton and Ron Flowers (39 each), Stanley Matthews (36), Ronnie Clayton (35), Roger Byrne, Bryan Douglas and Nat Lofthouse (33 each), Alf Ramsey and Jimmy Armfield (32 each), Ron Springett (28), Neil Franklin (27). Franklin would have doubled his caps collection but for dropping out in 1950 to play in the outlawed Colombian league. He was desperately missed by Winterbottom during the disastrous 1950 World Cup campaign.  What might England have achieved in the 1958 finals but for the Munich air disaster that robbed the team of Roger Byrne, Tommy Taylor and the irreplaceable Duncan Edwards?  Winterbottom was not the luckiest of managers.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author
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