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"NAT,
THE SUB, SINKS GOALS RECORD"
Daily Mirror |
Officials
from Scandinavia |
Finland |
FIFA ruling on substitutes |
England
Party |
Referee
Carl Frederik
Jörgensen 43 (12 September 1912), Denmark |
"It is a Finnish custom to award a
trophy to the best player on each side. These were presented to Haynes and
... Lehtinen."
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Linesmen
from Finland |
Aarne Eriksson |
Väinö Niemi |
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Finland
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 88th |
Colours |
Blue collared jerseys with white collars, white
shorts, blue socks |
Captain |
Lauri Lehtinen |
Manager |
Kurt Weinreich, 47 (12 December 1908 in Saarbrücken,
Germany), appointed in 1955. Team announced on Tuesday, 15 May 1956. |
first, W 0 - D 0 - L
1 - F 1 - A 5. |
Finland
Lineup |
|
Hurri, Keijo, off injured 39th min |
28 167 days |
5 December 1927 |
G |
Kuopion Palloseura |
1 |
3ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Pajunen, Väinö
V. |
27 201 days |
1 November 1928 |
RB |
Valkeakosken Haka |
2 |
0 |
3 |
Sommarberg, Aimo |
24 283 days |
11 August 1931 |
LB |
Kotkan Työväen Palloilijat |
3 |
0 |
4 |
Lintamo, Alpo J. |
23 62 days |
19 March 1933 |
RHB |
Helsingin Palloseura |
3 |
0 |
5 |
Lehtinen, Lauri H. |
28 275 days |
19 August 1927 |
CHB |
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi |
10 |
0 |
6 |
Jalava, Reijo |
24 92 days |
18 February 1932 |
LHB |
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi |
1 |
0 |
7 |
Peltonen, V.M. Juhani |
19 339 days |
16 June 1936 |
OR |
Valkeakosken Haka |
5 |
0 |
8 |
Hiltunen, Matti |
23 115 days |
26 January 1933 |
IR |
Kronohagens Idrottsforening |
12 |
4 |
9
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Pahlman, Kai |
20 317 days |
8 July 1935 |
CF |
Helsingin Palloseura |
3 |
0 |
10 |
Lahtinen, Olavi |
28 136 days |
5 January 1929 |
IL |
Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi |
15 |
5 |
11
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Forsgren, Olli |
27 199 days |
3 November 1929 |
OL |
Kronohagens Idrottsforening |
5 |
1 |
Finland Substitute |
scoreline:
Finland 1 England 3 |
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Klinga, Aarre, on 39th min. for Hurri |
26 53 days |
28 March 1930 |
GK |
Kronohagens Idrottsforening |
8 |
31ᵍᵃ |
result:
Finland 1 England 5 |
unused
substitutes: |
not known |
team notes: |
Keijo Hurri sprained his right ankle in the same 39th-minute tackle that
ended Tommy Taylor's match four minutes later. |
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2-3-5 |
Hurri (Klinga) - Pajunen, Sommarberg -
Lintamo, Lehtinen, Jalaya - Peltonen, Hiltunen, Pahlman, Lahtinen,
Forsgren |
Averages:
(start) (finish) |
Age |
25 years
0
days
24 years
289
days |
Appearances/Goals |
5.5 |
0.8 |
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England
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 7th to 6th |
Colours |
The 1954 Umbro
home uniform -
White v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, blue shorts, black
socks with white tops.
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P 13th of 43, W 7 - D 3 - L 3 - F 35 - A 17. |
Captain |
Billy Wright |
Manager |
Walter Winterbottom, 43 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946; |
record 61st of 90, W 35 - D 12 - L 14 - F 153 - A 92 |
Trainer: Jimmy Trotter (Charlton Athletic FC) |
P 79th of 139, W 48 - D 16 - L 15 - F 227 - A 113,
one abandoned. |
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Team chosen by Selection Committee,
headed by Joe Mears, on Friday, 18 May. |
England
Lineup |
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four changes
to the previous match (Matthews,
Dickinson, Berry & Atyeo out) |
FINAL league positions
(all May - FL 2nd, FL2 3rd, FL3S 4th) |
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Wood, Raymond E. |
24 344 days |
11 June 1931 |
G |
Manchester United FC
(FL CHAMPIONS) |
3 |
3ᵍᵃ |
final app
1956 |
2 |
Hall, Jeffrey J.,
injured off 87th min. |
26 256 days |
7 September 1929 |
RB |
Birmingham
City FC (FL 6th) |
8 |
0 |
3 |
Byrne, Roger W. |
26 255 days |
8 September 1929 |
LB |
Manchester United FC
(FL CHAMPIONS) |
21 |
0 |
4 |
Clayton, Ronald |
21 289 days |
5 August 1934 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC
(FL2 4th) |
5 |
0 |
5 |
Wright, William A. |
32 104 days |
6 February 1924 |
CHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC (FL 3rd) |
76 |
3 |
most apps
1952-56 |
6
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Edwards, Duncan |
19 232 days |
1 October 1936 |
LHB |
Manchester United FC
(FL CHAMPIONS) |
8 |
0 |
756 |
7
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Astall, Gordon |
28 241 days |
22 September 1927 |
OR |
Birmingham
City FC (FL 6th) |
1 |
1 |
the eleventh City player to represent England |
8
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Haynes, John N. |
21 216 days |
17 October 1934 |
IR |
Fulham FC
(FL2 9th) |
7 |
3 |
9 |
Taylor, Thomas, injured off 44th min. |
24 112 days |
29 January 1932 |
CF |
Manchester United FC
(FL CHAMPIONS) |
9 |
4 |
10
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Wilshaw, Dennis J. |
30 70 days |
11 March 1926 |
IL |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC
(FL 3rd) |
10 |
10 |
11
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Grainger,
Colin |
22 345 days |
10 June 1933 |
OL |
Sheffield
United FC (FL 22nd rel.) |
3 |
2 |
England Substitute |
scoreline:
Finland 1 England 3 |
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Lofthouse, Nathaniel, on 44th min. for
Taylor |
30 267 days |
27 August 1925 |
CF |
Bolton Wanderers FC
(FL 8th) |
31 |
30 |
29 |
the
182nd (49th post-war)
brace scored |
1 |
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second sub to score, first to
score twice |
most goals |
result:
Finland 1 England 5 |
unused substitutes: |
John Atyeo (Bristol City FC (FL2 6th)),
Johnny Berry (Manchester United FC
(FL CHAMPIONS)),
Tommy Cummings (Burnley FC
(FL 7th)) and
Johnny Wheeler (Bolton Wanderers FC (FL
8th)). |
team notes: |
Jeff Hall dislocated his shoulder
in the 87th minute after falling heavily after a tackle. Gordon
Astall becomes the 141st player
to score on his debut. |
substitute notes: |
Nat Lofthouse becomes the third ever England
substitute, the first for a year, and the first to score twice. He is
the oldest by three years. He
replaced Taylor, who "took the
goalkeeper's knee in his left thigh and tore his muscles as he spun to
the grass". Lofthouse thus becomes the first England
player to be substituted and be a substitute. |
records: |
Billy Wright extends his record appearance tally, in his record 41st
consecutive match. In the 77th minute, Lofthouse equalled the
England goalscoring record held by Steve Bloomer (since 1907) and
Vivian Woodward (since 1911) - five minutes later, he broke the record.
Although some reports suggest that Dennis Wilshaw did manage to help
it through???? No reports mention Woodward's record. |
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2-3-5 |
Wood - Hall, Byrne - Clayton, Wright, Edwards -
Astall, Haynes, Taylor (Lofthouse), Wilshaw,
Grainger. |
Averages:
(start) (finish) |
Age |
25 years 159
days
26 years
7
days |
Appearances/Goals |
13.7
15.7 |
1.8
4.7 |
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Match Report
by Mike Payne |
Sometimes
it can seem very unfair to criticise our national team when they gain a
convincing win on some foreign field, but this win against mediocre
opposition was one of England's worst performances for a long time. True,
the standard of opponents can drag any team down to their level, but there
was no excuse for this inept display. The game, in all honesty, was awful!
To be fair, England
were never stretched and long before the end it became little more than a
training exercise. After a scrappy opening 20 minutes, England took the
lead. A long through-ball by Duncan Edwards found the speedy Dennis
Wilshaw and the Wolves player continued his excellent England scoring
record with a fierce cross shot which flew past Hurri in the Finland goal.
Two minutes later it was Edwards again, this time setting up Johnny Haynes
who scored with another good shot.
Before the half-hour was up, England scored a
third goal, the bets of the match. A flowing move involving Billy Wright,
Colin Grainger, Edwards, Tommy Taylor and Haynes ended with Gordon Astall
cutting in to meet the pass from Haynes and shooting home from the
narrowest of angles.
After this flurry of activity Taylor collided
with Hurri and the goalkeeper was replaced by Klinga. Then, before the
break, Finland pulled a goal back when sloppiness in England's defence
allowed Forsgren a header past the previously unemployed Ray Woods.
In the second half the game slipped more and more into mediocrity. The
lead which England had built up had taken the urgency from their game and
only a few moments of the half were worth recording. Taylor also had to
leave the field injured, he had damaged his stomach muscles, and he was
replaced by Nat Lofthouse.
It was Lofthouse who scored England's
other two goals, the first of which equalled Steve Bloomer's long-standing
total and the second equaling Vivian Woodward's record of 29 goals for
England. [ed-Woodward has since lost
credit to one of these goals]
The
goal which finally put Lofthouse into the record books was a scrappy
one to say the least. It came eight minutes from time when Grainger's
corner was headed on by Lofthouse. Wilshaw swung a boot at it and missed,
and then two defenders on the line left the clearance to each other before
watching horrified as the ball crept between them and over the line for a
bizarre goal.
The goal was not really worthy of such stature but
definitely summed up this particular game. Astall, Grainger, Haynes and
Edwards, could be pleased with their efforts but Taylor and Jeff Hall, who
dislocated a shoulder, looked doubtful for England's next match.
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Match Report
by Norman Giller |
Nat Lofthouse came on as a substitute for the
injured Tommy Taylor a minute before half-time, and for the twelfth time
in an England shirt he scored two goals. It lifted his haul to twenty-nine
goals, one more than the previous England record set by the great Steve
Bloomer before the First World War. Gordon Astall, playing in place of the
unavailable Stanley Matthews, scored on his debut. England were leading
3-0 when Taylor limped off following a collision with the Finnish
goalkeeper. The record-breaking goal by Lotfhouse in the eighty-second
minute was a freak effort, the ball rolling gently over the goal-line
between two defenders who left the clearance duties to each other.
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Match Report
as appears in the F.A. Yearbook 1956-57 pages 31 & 32 |
In a game played in the Olympic
Stadium at Helsinki on May 20th England won the second match of this
end-of-season tour as comfortably as the score of 5-1 suggests. Before
21,000 spectators the tourists built up a 3-goal lead within half-an-hour
of the kick-off, but after that the game was rather colourless. Wilshaw,
Haynes, Astall and Lofthouse (2) were the scorers, the last-named coming
on as substitute for the injured Taylor just before half-time.
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In
Other News....
It was on 21 May 1956 that 37-year-old French stuntman, Léo
Valentin fell 8,500 feet to his death from a plane during
the International Air Pageant at Liverpool Airport. The
self-proclaimed 'Bird Man' was wearing wings of balsa wood
and alloy, and planned to glide before using a parachute for
the last 1800 feet, but he knocked his left wing on the side
of the opening as he exited the plane, and it broke up,
sending him into a spin. His first parachute failed to open
and the backup tangled around his body as he plummeted to
the ground. The stunt was watched by two 13-year-old future
Beatles, George Harrison and Sir Paul McCartney. |
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Source
Notes |
TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports palloliitto.fi
The Complete Book of the British Charts |
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Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record
Norman Giller, Football Author |
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