Peter Shilton won the first of his record 125 caps against an East German team that promised much more than they finally produced. The Germans had scored sixteen goals winning their previous four matches, but they could make little impression against an experimental England defence as Sir Alf Ramsey started rebuilding with the 1972 European championships in mind. Manchester United's utility player David Sadler patrolled alongside the maestro Bobby Moore in the middle of the defence, and Emlyn Hughes partnered Terry Cooper at full back. Sir Alf reverted to his favourite 4-3-3 formation, with Allan Clarke joining Francis Lee and Geoff Hurst at the front. Lee and Martin Peters gave England a 2-0 lead inside the first twenty minutes, and the cool, calculating Clarke clinched an impressive victory midway through the second-half after the East Germans had pulled a goal back with a dipping twenty-five yard drive by Vogel that caught Shilton off his line.

Source Notes

Consistent with the practice prevailing until the end of the 20th century, the Deutscher Fußball-Verband, the football association of the German Democratic Republic, popularly known as East Germany, recognised Olympic Games qualifying and final tournament matches played by its senior side against the senior sides of other nations as constituting official internationals.  But in 1999, FIFA, in consultation with the International Federation of Football History & Statistics (IFFHS), retroactively removed official status from all Olympic Games matches played since 1950.  We have questioned this retroactive desanctification of matches elsewhere.  Our team and player records, like those of most reputable sources, reflect matches deemed official under the accepted practice of the time at which they were played.

TheFA.com
DFB.de
Original newspaper reports
Official matchday programme
Rothman's Yearbooks
Dave Bowler's Winning Isn't Everything ...": A Biography of Sir Alf Ramsey, p. 266 (Cassell Group, London, 1998)
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Kicker sportsmagazin, 1000 Jahre Deutscher Fuβball (November 1999)
Norman Giller, Football Author
Cris Freddi
Charlie Leigh
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