Notes
The friendly away match of 15 February 1995
against the
Republic of Ireland,
abandoned after 27 minutes because of crowd violence with the Republic leading 1-0, did not
produce an official result. The Football Association's official website does
not mention the match in its matches list although caps were awarded to England's
players. We have chosen to record it in our matches list because
caps were awarded,
but since no official result was reached, we have ignored it in our team
record computations. Thus, although we record England's last match, against
Croatia as Match No. 860, our team records are
based on the 859 matches that produced an official result.
The friendly away match of 17 May
1953 against Argentina, abandoned midway through the first half because of
torrential rain with both teams scoreless, is treated differently. Although the teams played for only
21 minutes, the football
associations of England and Argentina agreed the match would stand as a
scoreless draw. Since the Football Association records list the 1953 Argentina match as a draw, we have bowed to their official status although we believe it would have been more accurate to record it for what
it was, an abandonment. Accordingly, we have recorded the match as a scoreless
draw and counted it in making
our team record computations.
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