"ENGLAND
PUNCHING ON TO WORLD CUP"
Daily Mirror |
Officials
from
Scotland |
England Party |
FIFA ruling on substitutes |
Republic of Ireland |
Referee
Hugh Phillips
36 (4 April 1921), Wishaw, Lanarkshire |
Teams presented to the Guest of Honour,
the Earl of
Rosebery.
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flame flag
Linesmen
orange flag |
William R. Leggatt
Clydebank |
Alexander Purves
Edinburgh |
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England
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 4th |
Colours |
The 1954 Umbro
home uniform -
White v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, blue shorts, red
socks with white tops. |
P 19th of 43, W 12 - D 4 - L 3 - F 54 - A 23. |
Captain |
Billy Wright |
Manager |
Walter Winterbottom, 44 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946; |
record 68th of 90, W 41 - D 13 - L 14 - F 175 - A 99. |
P 86th of 139,
W
54
- D 17 - L 15 - F 249 - A 120,
one abandoned. |
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Team chosen by Selection Committee, headed by Joe Mears, on Sunday, 28 April. |
England
Lineup |
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three changes
to the previous match
(Atyeo, Taylor & Haynes>Thompson, Kevan & Grainger) |
league position
(28 April) |
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Hodgkinson, Alan |
20 265 days |
16 August 1936 |
G |
Sheffield United FC (FL2
7th) |
2 |
2ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Hall, Jeffrey J. |
27 243 days |
7 September 1929 |
RB |
Birmingham
City FC (FL 12th) |
15 |
0 |
3 |
Byrne, Roger W. |
27 242 days |
8 September 1929 |
LB |
Manchester United FC (FL
CHAMPIONS) |
28 |
0 |
4
|
Clayton, Ronald |
22 276 days |
5 August 1934 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC (FL2
3rd) |
12 |
0 |
5 |
Wright, William A. |
33 91 days |
6 February 1924 |
CHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC (FL
6th) |
83 |
3 |
most apps
1952-57 |
6 |
Edwards, Duncan |
20 219 days |
1 October 1936 |
LHB |
Manchester United FC (FL
CHAMPIONS) |
13 |
4 |
7 |
Matthews, Stanley |
42 96 days |
1 February 1915 |
OR |
Blackpool FC (FL
4th) |
53 |
10 |
oldest England player |
8
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Atyeo,
P. John W. |
25 90 days |
7 February 1932 |
IR |
Bristol
City FC (FL2 13th) |
4 |
3 |
the
187th
(54th post-war)
brace scored |
9
|
Taylor, Thomas |
25 99 days |
29 January 1932 |
CF |
Manchester United FC (FL
CHAMPIONS) |
14 |
12 |
the
186th
(53rd post-war)
brace,
the fiftieth (13th post-war) hattrick scored |
10 |
Haynes, John N. |
22 203 days |
17 October 1934 |
IL |
Fulham FC (FL2
11th) |
11 |
5 |
11
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Finney,
Thomas |
35 33 days |
5 April 1922 |
OL |
Preston
North End FC (FL 3rd) |
65 |
27 |
reserves: |
Reg Matthews (Chelsea FC (FL
13th)),
Jim Langley (Brighton & Hove Albion FC (FL3S
5th)),
Roy Gratrix (Blackpool FC (FL
4th)),
Johnny Wheeler (Liverpool FC (FL2
4th)),
Ray Barlow (West Bromwich Albion FC (FL
11th)),
Tony Marchi (Tottenham
Hotspur FC (FL RU)),
Nat Lofthouse (Bolton Wanderers FC (FL
9th)),
Albert Quixall (Sheffield Wednesday FC (FL
14th)),
Dennis Stevens (Bolton Wanderers FC (FL
9th)),
Arthur Kaye (Barnsley FC (FL2
19th)),
David Pegg (Manchester United FC (FL
CHAMPIONS)). |
team notes: |
Billy Wright extends his record appearance tally, in his record 48th
consecutive match. Ron
Clayton was playing against his club manager, Johnny Carey. |
hat-trick notes: |
Tommy Taylor's second hattrick is the third at
this stadium England have scored. He is the first player since Bill
Dean in May 1927 to score a hattrick in two consecutive matches, and
fourth goalscorer overall. |
Stadium
records: |
England win a record tenth match in
a row at Wembley, extending their tally. It also extends their record
sequence of ten matches unbeaten at the stadium. It is Walter
Winterbottom's twentieth visit to the stadium as the manager of the
England senior team. |
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2-3-5 |
Hodgkinson - Hall, Byrne - Clayton, Wright, Edwards
- Matthews, Atyeo, Taylor, Haynes, Finney. |
Averages: |
Age |
27 years 204 days |
Appearances/Goals |
27.3 |
5.4 |
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Republic
of Ireland
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 24th |
Colours |
Green jerseys with white collar, white shorts,
white and green hooped socks. |
Captain |
Peter Farrell |
Team Manager |
John Joseph Carey, 38 (23 February 1919),
appointed 1955 (also manager of Blackburn Rovers FC since 1954)
team chosen by the Selection Committee on Saturday evening, 27
April 1957 |
Trainer: W. Lord (Shamrock Rovers FC) |
Republic
of Ireland
Lineup |
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Kelly, Alan J.A. |
20 307 days |
5 July 1936 |
G |
Drumcondra FC |
2 |
5ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Donovan, Daniel C. |
27 136 days |
23 December 1929 |
RB |
Everton FC, England |
5 |
0 |
final app
1954-57 |
3 |
Cantwell, Noel E.C. |
25 69 days |
28 February 1932 |
LB |
West Ham United FC, England |
5 |
1 |
4 |
Farrell, Peter D. |
34 265 days |
16 August 1922 |
RHB |
Everton FC, England |
27 |
3 |
final app
1946-57 |
5 |
Mackey, Gerald |
25 69 days |
10 January 1933 |
CHB |
Shamrock Rovers FC |
3 |
0 |
final app
1956-57 |
6 |
Saward, Patrick |
28 264 days |
17 August 1928 |
LHB |
Aston Villa FC, England |
2 |
0 |
7 |
Ringstead, Alfred |
29 206 days |
14 October 1927 |
OR |
Sheffield United FC, England |
13 |
5 |
8 |
Whelan, William A. |
22 37 days |
1 April 1935 |
IR |
Manchester United FC, England |
3 |
0 |
9
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Curtis, Dermot P. |
24 255 days |
26 August 1932 |
CF |
Bristol City FC, England |
3 |
2 |
10 |
Fitzsimons, Arthur |
27 143 days |
16 December 1929 |
IL |
Middlesbrough FC, England |
20 |
5 |
11
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Haverty, Joseph |
21 80 days |
17 February 1936 |
OL |
Arsenal FC, England |
4 |
2 |
reserves |
Ronnie Nolan and Noel Peyton (both Shamrock Rovers FC) |
team notes |
Pat Saward and Bill Whelan were later
arrivals to the Party, having participated in the FA Cup Final the
previous Saturday. |
The Republic of Ireland were set-up and trained at Weybridge. |
Manager Johnny Carey has played against England
for three different countries. He was captain of the Republic of Ireland team the last
time these
two
countries met, in September 1949 and
was also captain of the
Éire team
in the friendly defeat in September 1946..He debuted for the
Ireland
team against England in September 1946, playing
again in November 1947
and October 1948. |
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2-3-5 |
Kelly - Donovan, Cantwell - Farrell, Mackey, Saward -
Ringstead, Whelan, Curtis, Fitzsimons, Haverty |
Averages: |
Age |
26 years 7 days |
Appearances/Goals |
7.9 |
1.5 |
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Match Report
by Mike Payne |
ENGLAND
moved a step nearer to the 1958 World Cup finals in Sweden as they beat
off the challenge of the Republic of Ireland. Although the scoreline looks
convincing enough. the actual performance by the home side was not
entirely inspiring. For long periods in the second half, Eire were on top,
producing a clever brand of football that at times was reminiscent of
Hungary or Austria at their best. Alas, for the Irish, they could find no
finish to this attractive approach play.
England did all the
damage in the first half and their start was undoubtedly Johnny Haynes. He
really looked the part and his all around contribution was once
again the key. With John Atyeo being used in a twin-pronged attack
alongside Tommy Taylor, the home side took the lead in the ninth minute.
Stan
Matthews showed some skilful footwork before laying the ball inside to
Ronnie Clayton. The wing-half then produced a lovely through pass and
Taylor raced in, sold a dummy to the defence, and hit a good shot past
Kelly. Just after the quarter-hour, England made it 2-0 when Haynes fed
Tom Finney. When the winger's pass came inside Taylor was there again to
fire an 18-yard shot past a strangely flat-footed Kelly. England attacked
at will and before the interval they added two more goals.
Many of
their best attacks had involved the in-form Finney. His influence on the
first half was enormous and it was the Preston player who set up number
three. Receiving possession from Duncan Edwards, he cut inside and hit a
fierce shot at goal. Kelly could only parry the ball upwards and before
the goalkeeper could recover, Atyeo pounced to head home.
Almost
immediately poor Kelly was again fishing the ball out of the back of his
net, this time after Taylor had soared gloriously to head in Finney's
corner. The scoreline was emphatic to say the least with Taylor having
scored his eighth goal in only three and a half internationals. It is
often difficult for a team to raise their game in the second half when
they are so far in front and that is just how it proved as England gave a
lethargic display after the break.
All credit to the Irish, though,
as they refused to give up and, indeed, came back at them strongly.
England looked jaded with Edwards, particularly, looking very tired
after his many games in the season just ended. The Irish put some
excellent football together at this stage and scored a deserved goal when
Curtis headed in a left-wing centre from little Joe Haverty. They
continually pressed forward and Farrell shot high over when well placed.
Shortly after that incident Alan Hodgkinson was relieved to see Whelan's
close-range shot crash against the crossbar.
Those missed chances
did not help Ireland's cause at all and just to rub salt into the wound,
England snatched a fifth goal in the last minute. Haynes and Finney again
combined and from Finney's pass Atyeo was again the man in the right
position to beat Kelly.
Now England faced two different return
games in Copenhagen and Dublin to see who goes to Sweden. It would not be
easy for them.
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Match Report
by Norman Giller |
A second successive
Tommy Taylor hat-trick - all his goals coming in the first-half - and two
from John Atyeo crushed an outgunned Irish team in this second of
England's four World Cup qualifying matches. This was, sadly, to be the last match in which Jeff Hall and Roger
Byrne were to partner each other. Jeff contracted polio and died on April 4
1959. Born in Scunthorpe on September
7
1929, he started his career as an amateur with Bradford Park Avenue before
becoming a regular in Birmingham City's defence. He would have had,
statistically, the best individual England record of any player but for the
2-1 defeat by Wales in 1955. In 17 matches he was on the beaten side only
once. England won twelve of the games and drew four. Roger Byrne was his
partner in every game.
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Match Report
by Glen Isherwood |
Both teams had
already beaten Denmark at home in Group One They had met each other only
twice before, England had won 1-0 at Dalymount Park, Dublin, in 1946.
Ireland surprisingly winning 2-0 at Goodison Park three years later.
England's first home defeat by a foreign team. Ireland had yet to qualify
for a World Cup.
In the
ninth minute of Wembley's first World Cup match Tommy Taylor opened the
scoring, taking a pass from Clayton to shoot England in front. Nine
minutes later Finney's pass gave Taylor the chance to score again and once
more Kelly was beaten. Then Kelly just saved from Finney but John Atyeo
headed in the rebound. Taylor completed a first half hat-trick with a
header from a Finney corner. England relaxed a little in the second half
and the Irish pulled one back when Dermot Curtis headed in a centre from
Haverty but in the dying seconds England restored their four-goal
advantage when Finney crossed and Atyeo came charging in to score again.
England won the group 11 days later with a 1-1 draw in the return at
Dalymount Park. This was only achieved, however, by a last-minute
equaliser from Atyeo. It was to be 19 years before Republic of Ireland
appeared at Wembley again. At the age of 42 Stan Matthews made his 27th
and final appearance at Wembley. Strangely he never scored at the stadium.
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Match Report
as appears in the F.A. Yearbook 1957-58 page 34 |
In the second of England's World Cup
preliminary matches, 52,000 people saw the home team win at Wembley
against the Irish Republic by 5 goals to 1. As a spectacle, the match was
virtually over long before half-time, when England led by three goals from
Taylor and one from Atyeo. This comfortable margin of goals undoubtedly
removed much of the inspiration from the English attacking machine in the
second half, and the Irish forwards, especially Haverty, played some good
football before Curtis scored for them. Shortly before the final whistle,
however, Atyeo scored again with a first time drive from Finney's centre
and England finished easy winners against a side whose defence was far
short of World Cup standards.
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Other
World Cup Qualifying
Football Results |
Group Nine:
6:45pm BST
Scotland 4 Spain 2
Hampden
Park, Glasgow
(88,873)
Mudie
22,
70, 79, Hewie
41 (pen)
~
Suárez 19,
Kubala
28
Live on BBC TV - commentators
George Davidson and Peter Thomson |
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Scotland kicked off their
qualifying campaign with a hard-fought victory, taking the lead
three times before getting the better of their opponents, who had
already dropped a point to the other team in the group,
Switzerland, two months earlier, in Madrid. |
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In
Other News....
It was on 8 May 1957 that 48-year-old, Mac (Macdonald) Daly,
a popular Scottish television personality, who had fronted
animal shows on both channels and was a leading authority on
dog handling, was killed when his car overturned in a ditch
just a mile from his Buckinghamshire home. His wife, Gwen
was also injured, but survived the crash and recovered. |
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Source
Notes |
TheFA.com
soccerscene.ie Original newspaper reports Official matchday programme
Glen Isherwood's Wembley: The Complete Record |
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Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record
Norman Giller, Football Author
The Complete Book of the British Charts
Reuters |
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