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Wednesday, 10 November 1965
Home International Championship 1965-66 (71st) Match

England 2 Northern Ireland 1 [1-1]
 

 

Match Summary
England Squad
Northern Ireland Squad

Empire Stadium, Wembley, Brent, Greater London
Attendance: 70,000;
Kick-off: 7.45pm GMT

England - Joe Baker (powerful shot after shaking off Harvey 19), Alan Peacock (73)
Northern Ireland - Willie Irvine (low swirling shot that deceived Banks following a faulty clearance 20)
Results 1965-1970

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Match Summary

Officials

England

Type

Northern Ireland

Referee (-) - Leo Callaghan
x (-), Wales.

Linesmen - tbc

  Goal Attempts  
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England Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 4th
Colours: The 1965 Umbro home uniform - White crew necked jerseys, blue shorts, white socks.
Capt: Bobby Moore, seventeenth captaincy Manager: Alfred Ernest Ramsey, 45 (22 January 1920), appointed 25 October 1962, effective part-time 31 December, full from May 1963.
29th match, W 16 - D 7 - L 6 - F 73 - A 44.
England Lineup
  Banks, Gordon     G Leicester City FC 20 25ᵍᵃ
2 Cohen, George     RB Fulham FC 17 0
3 Wilson, Ramon 30 17 December 1934 LB Everton FC 38 0
4 Stiles, Norbert P. 23 18 May 1942 RHB Manchester United FC 7 0
5 Charlton, John     CHB Leeds United AFC 8 0
6 Moore, Robert F.C. 24 12 April 1941 LHB West Ham United FC 34 0
7 Thompson, Peter 22 27 November 1942 OR Liverpool FC 12 0
8 Baker, Joseph     IR Arsenal FC 6 2
9 Peacock, Alan 28 29 October 1937 CF Leeds United AFC 6 3
final app 1962-65
10 Charlton, Robert     IL Manchester United FC 61 35
11 Connelly, John     OL Manchester United FC 16 5

unused substitutes:

-

team notes:

Manager Alf Ramsey played for England against Ireland between 1950 and 1952.
Joe Baker replaced the unfit Jimmy Greaves on Tuesday, 9 November.
 
2-3-5 Banks -
Cohen, Wilson -
Stiles,
J.Charlton, Moore -
Thompson, Baker, Peacock,
R.Charlton, Connelly.

Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

Northern Ireland Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 37th to 38th
Colours: Made by Bukta - Green crew necked jerseys with white collar/cuffs, white shorts, green socks.
Capt: Terry Neill Manager: Robert Peacock, 37 (29 September 1928), appointed October 1962
21st match, W 9 - D 2 - L 10 - F 36 - A 45.
Northern Ireland Lineup
  Jennings, Patrick A. 20 12 June 1945 G Tottenham Hotspur FC, England 10 16ᵍᵃ
2 Magill, E. James 26 7 May 1939 RB Brighton & Hove Albion FC, England 22 0
3 Elder, Alexander R. 24 25 April 1941 LB Burnley FC, England 28 0
4 Harvey, Martin 24 19 September 1941 RHB Sunderland AFC, England 19 2
5 Neill, W.J. Terence 23 8 May 1942 CHB Arsenal FC, England 25 1
6 Nicholson, James J. 22 27 February 1943 LHB Huddersfield Town FC, England 16 0
7 McIlroy, James 34 25 October 1931 OR Stoke City FC, England 54 10
8 Crossan, John A. 26 29 November 1938 IR Sunderland AFC, England 19 10
9 Irvine, William J. 22 18 June 1943 CF Burnley FC, England 10 4
10 Dougan, A. Derek 27 20 January 1938 IL Leicester City FC, England 11 4
11 Best, George 19 22 May 1946 OL Manchester United FC, England 11 3

unused substitutes:

-

team notes:

Manager Bertie Peacock played for Ireland against England on six separate occasions from 1954 until 1960, scoring one in 1958.
 
2-3-5 Jennings -
Magill, Elder -
Harvey, Neill, Nicholson -
McIlroy, Crossan, Irvine, Dougan, Best.

Averages:

Age 24.3 Appearances/Goals 20.5 3.0

 

    Match Report by Mike Payne

 

    Match Report by Norman Giller

Joe Baker, deputising for the hospitalized Greaves, put England in the lead in the nineteenth minute. The Irish equalised sixty seconds later when Willie Irvine turned a George Best centre through the legs of an embarrassed Gordon Banks. Persistent rain made the surface treacherous, and the Irish defenders were slithering around when Alan Peacock scored England's winner in the seventieth minute. Under gentle persuasion from Alf Ramsey - and at club level, Matt Busby -  Bobby Charlton was starting to specialize in more of a withdrawn role, and he was developing into the Great Conductor.

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)
Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats

Norman Giller
, Football Author

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CG