Four goals from David Platt lifted England to a satisfactory rather than stunning victory against a mediocre team of part-time professionals who came only to defend in this World Cup qualifier. Platt, an inspiring skipper in place of the injured Stuart Pearce, had the chance to equal the individual England five-goal record but his eighty-eighth minute penalty was superbly saved. Platt's goals came in the thirteenth, twenty-fourth, sixty-seventh and eighty-third minutes. Carlton Palmer scored with a diving header in the seventy-eighth minute and Les Ferdinand marked his international debut with England's sixth goal in the eighty-sixth minute. Paul Gascoigne was strangely subdued in midfield and John Barnes, recalled after a long injury-forced lay-off, had a personal nightmare with the frustrated England fans jeering and booing him almost every time he touched the ball. Much of the taunting from the crowd seemed racist in its content and would not be tolerated today.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Official Teamsheet
Matchday Programme
News of the World Football Anuual 1994-95
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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