Source Notes

This may have been a friendly fixture, with no Euro 2000 qualification points at stake, but England did produce a quality performance to beat the team that they could so easily have played in the Euro 96 final.  Such a positive result against opponents unbeaten in their nine previous internationals lifted England after a pretty miserable autumn.  Hoddle and his players left the field to a great chorus of approval and the clash with world champions France in three months' time was now even more eagerly awaited.

England withstood some early pressure from the Czechs, resulting from enterprising play in midfield by Poborsky and Bejbl, before their trio of 'golden oldies' - Ian Wright, Paul Merson and Dion Dublin - started causing the visiting defence problems with their expert running into space.  England had a confident look about them but they definitely needed a goal,.  It arrived on 22 minutes.

Graeme Le Saux played Wright in down the left and the West Ham striker, in his first England start of the season, burst past Novotny and swept the ball across the box.  Darren Anderton, arriving late and more or less undetected, sent a low left-footer between Kouba and the post.  England warmed to the task after that and fashioned another goal before half-time.

Wright was again involved.  Cutting inside on 39 minutes, he lifted over a cross which Dublin flicked towards the far post.  Merson, the man over, was on hand to guide a cool shot past the 'keeper.  England maintained their control in the second half, though there was one moment of alarm when Nigel Martyn had to fly across his goal to tip over a rasping shot from Lokvenc, a substitute. - The Official F.A. and England Yearbook 1999-2000.

TheFA.com
Czech Republic F.A. official website
Original newspaper reports
The Sun newspaper archives
Rothman's Yearbooks
F.A. Yearbook
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