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Saturday, 25 April 1970
Home International Championship 1969-70 (75th) Match

Scotland 0 England 0 [0-0]
 

 

Match Summary
Scotland Squad
England Squad

Hampden Park, Kinghorn Drive, Mount Florida, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Attendance: 137,248/137,438;
Kick-off: 3.00pm BST
Delayed coverage on ITV (Anglia, ATV, Border, Granada, HTV, London Weekend, Southern, Tyne Tees, Ulster, Westward and Yorkshire) -
Commentator: Brian Moore. Delayed coverage also on ITV (Scottish and Grampian) - Commentator - Arthur Montford.

 
Results 1965-1970

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Match Summary

Officials

Scotland

Type

England

Referee (-) - Gerd Schulenberg
x (-).

Linesmen - tbc

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Scotland Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 16th to 15th
Colours: Made by Umbro - blue crew necked jerseys with white collars/cuffs, white shorts, blue socks with red tops. 
Capt: John Greig Manager: Robert Brown, 47 (19 March 1923), appointed 6 February 1967,
20th match, W 8 - D 7 - L - 5 - F 35 - A 24.
team chosen on Monday, x.
Scotland Lineup
  Cruikshank, James F.     G     GA
2 Gemmell, Thomas 26 18 October 1943 RB Celtic FC 17 1
3 Dickson, William     LB      
4 Greig, John 27 11 September 1942 LHB Rangers FC 38 3
5 McKinnon, Ronald 29 20 August 1940 CHB Rangers FC 23 1
6 Moncur, Robert, off 85th min.     RHB      
7 Johnstone, James C. 25 30 September 1944 OR The Celtic FC 10 3
8 Hay, David     IR      
9 Stein, Colin A.     CF      
10 O'Hare, John     IL      
11 Carr, William M.     OL      
Scotland Substitutes
12 Gilzean, Alan J., on 85th min. for Moncur 31 22 October 1938 CF Tottenham Hotspur FC, England 21 12
unused substitutes: -
 
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Averages:

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England Team

 
Current World Champions Colours: The 1965 Umbro home uniform - White crew necked jerseys, blue shorts, white socks.

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 1st
Capt: Bobby Moore, sixtieth captaincy Manager: Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey, 50 (22 January 1920), appointed 25 October 1962, effective part-time 31 December, full from May 1963.
77th match, W 48 - D 19 - L 10 - F 162 - A 74.
England Lineup
1 Banks, Gordon 32 30 December 1937 G Stoke City FC 57 50ᵍᵃ
2 Newton, Keith 28 23 June 1941 RB Everton FC 22 0
3 Hughes, Emlyn W. 22   LB Liverpool FC 6 0
4 Stiles, Norbert P. 27 18 May 1942 RHB Manchester United FC 28 1
final app 1965-70
5 Labone, Brian 30 23 January 1940 CHB Everton FC 21 0
6 Moore, Robert F.C. 29 12 April 1941 LHB West Ham United FC 78 2
7 Thompson, Peter, off 68th min. 27 27 November 1942 OR Liverpool FC 16 0
final app 1964-70
8 Ball, Alan J. 24 12 May 1945 IR Everton FC 39 6
9 Astle, Jeffrey 27   CF West Bromwich Albion FC 3 0
10 Hurst, Geoffrey C. 28   LF West Ham United FC 36 20
11 Peters, Martin S. 26 8 November 1943 OL Tottenham Hotspur FC 36 12
England Substitutes
  Mullery, Alan P., on 68th min. for Thompson 28 23 November 1941 RHB Tottenham Hotspur FC 25 23 0
2
unused substitutes: -
substitute notes: Alan Mullery becomes the second player to earn an England appearance twice as a substitute, following Geoff Hurst in January 1970.
Record sixth substitution made in 1969-70 season.
team notes: Manager Alf Ramsey played against Scotland in four matches from 1950 until 1953.
Manchester City manager Joe Mercer had requested that Sir Alf Ramsey not pick his players, Francis Lee and Colin Bell, so that they may be fit for City's Cup Winners Cup Final tie in Vienna in a week.
 
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    Match Report by Mike Payne

 

    Match Report by Norman Giller

This was England's final game before flying off for the World Cup warm-up games in South America, and the Scots were hell bent on giving them a morale-sapping defeat as a farewell present. England were equally determined not to be beaten and the game became bogged down in a midfield stalemate. A buffeting wind whipped around Hampden and made ball control difficult, robbing the 137,438 spectators of what had been an anticipated classic. The game produced the first goalless draw between Scotland and England since the first ever international football match between them back in 1872.

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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