The
Tartan Army
Squad for the match against England April 1966 |
Player |
Birthdate |
Age |
Pos |
Club |
App |
G |
Baxter, James Curran |
29 September 1939 |
26 |
LHB |
Sunderland AFC, England |
27 |
3 |
Bremner, William John |
9 December 1942 |
23 |
IL |
Leeds United AFC, England |
4 |
0 |
Cooke, Charles |
14 October 1942 |
23 |
F |
Dundee FC |
2 |
0 |
Cruickshank, James Fergus |
13 April 1941 |
24 |
G |
Heart of Midlothian FC |
1 |
2 GA |
Ferguson, Robert |
1 March 1945 |
21 |
G |
Kilmarnock FC |
1 |
1 GA |
Gemmell, Thomas |
18 October 1943 |
22 |
LB |
The Celtic FC |
0 |
0 |
Greig, John |
11 September 1942 |
23 |
RB |
Rangers FC |
14 |
3 |
Henderson, William |
24 January 1944 |
22 |
F |
Rangers FC |
20 |
4 |
Hughes, John |
3 April 1943 |
22 |
OL |
The Celtic FC |
5 |
0 |
Hughes withdrew from the squad on 26 March because of a knee injury. |
Johnston, William McClure |
19 December 1946 |
19 |
F |
Rangers FC |
2 |
0 |
Johnstone, James Connolly |
30 September 1944 |
21 |
OR |
The Celtic FC |
2 |
0 |
Law, Denis |
24 February 1940 |
26 |
F |
Manchester United FC, England |
34 |
24 |
McCreadie, Edward Graham |
15 April 1940 |
25 |
LB |
Chelsea FC, England |
8 |
0 |
McCreadie withdrew from the squad on 30 March because of injury. |
McKinnon, Ronald |
20 August 1940 |
25 |
CHB |
Rangers FC |
3 |
0 |
McNeill, William |
2 March 1940 |
26 |
HB |
The Celtic FC |
19 |
1 |
Murdoch, Robert White |
17 August 1944 |
21 |
RHB |
The Celtic FC |
3 |
2 |
St. John, Ian |
7 June 1938 |
28 |
F |
Liverpool FC, England |
21 |
9 |
St. John withdrew from the squad on 30 March because of injury. |
Wallace, William Semple Brown |
23 June 1940 |
25 |
CF |
Heart of Midlothian FC |
1 |
0 |
Squad details correct up to
and including Scotland's match against Italy on 7 December 1965. Tallies from
SFA.
Diary
Friday, 25 March 1966 - The Scotland
Football Association last night appointed John Prentice, manager of Clyde,
as Scotland's team manager. He will be in charge of the side against
England at Hampden Park to-morrow week, and his contract is to run until
June 30, 1970, he will also be responsible for the national side during
the next World Cup series. Prentice
yesterday sat in with the selectors when they
nominated a pool of eighteen players from which the team to meet England
will be chosen.
Saturday, 26 March 1966 -
The Celtic outside-left, John Hughes, has withdrawn from the party after
it became came clear that the knee injury he received during the
inter-league match at Newcastle was not going to heal in time.
Monday, 28 March 1966 - Scotland's well-founded
expectations of beating England on Saturday lie at the mercy of a log-jam
of matches and the inevitable risk of injury they carry. Over the next
three days no fewer than twelve of the seventeen players remaining in the
pool will be engaged in cup or league games. The chairman of the selection
committee, Mr H.S. Nelson, and the new team manager, John Prentice, will
decide to-day whether or not to pick a replacement for Hughes.
Tuesday, 29 March 1966 - A FA disciplinary
commission, after a personal hearing in London yesterday, announced that
Ian St. John had been severely censured, warned as to his future conduct,
and fined �100. St. John was sent off near the end of the match at Fulham
for Liverpool on February 26. The hearing yesterday lasted just over an
hour and film from 'Match of the Day', the BBC2 programme, was shown
during it. An FA official said afterwards "This is the first time that
such a film has been used during one of our hearings."
Wednesday, 30 March 1966 - The formation of
Scotland's team to play England emerged more clearly today when Eddie
McCreadie and Ian St. John were withdrawn from the party. The final
selection will be made tomorrow when the players assemble in Glasgow
before they set off for training in Largs, or on Friday.
Thursday, 31 March 1966 - The Scotland team to
face England is chosen. The squad of fourteen trained for two hours at the
Inverclyde Recreation Centre at Largs. The absentee was Jimmy Johnstone,
who remained at Celtic Park for treatment to injuries he received on
Tuesday evening in a league match with Kilmarnock. He joined the others
later in the evening for a talk on tactics and reported himself as fit.
The only new cap is Tommy Gemmell, replacing Eddie McCreadie. Two players
survive from the team that drew last year at Wembley, John Greig, a wing
half for Rangers, but will be a right-back on Saturday, and Denis Law.
Scotland
Form: last six
games |
W
L
L W W L
f
10:a 10
success: 50% |
310 |
27 May 1965 - Finland 1 Scotland 2
[1-1] Helsingin Olympiastadion,
Helsinki |
Hyvarinen Wilson, Greig |
WCP |
AW |
311 |
2 October 1965 - Northern Ireland 3 Scotland 2
[1-1] Windsor Park, Belfast |
Dougan, Crossan, Irvine Gilzean
(2) |
BC |
AL |
312 |
13 October 1965 - Scotland 1 Poland 2
[1-0] Hampden Park, Glasgow |
McNeill Liberda, Sadek |
WCP |
HL |
313 |
9 November 1965 - Scotland 1 Italy 0
[0-0] Hampden Park, Glasgow |
Greig |
HW |
314 |
24 November 1965 - Scotland 4 Wales 1
[3-1] Hampden Park, Glasgow |
Murdoch (2), Henderson, Greig
Allchurch |
BC |
HW |
315 |
7 December 1965 - Italy 3 Scotland 0
[1-0] Stadio San Paolo, Napoli |
Pascutti, Facchetti, Mora |
WCP |
AL |
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