The
England Party
for the
World Cup qualification matches May
1957 |
Player |
Birthdate |
Age |
Pos |
Club |
starts |
subs |
App |
|
Capt |
Atyeo, P. John W. |
7 February 1932 |
25 |
IR |
Bristol City FC |
3 |
0 |
3 |
1 |
0 |
Barlow, Ray J. |
17 August 1926 |
29 |
LHB |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Byrne, Roger
W. |
8 September 1929 |
28 |
LB
|
Manchester United FC |
27 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
Clayton,
Ronald |
5 August 1934
|
22 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
11 |
0 |
11 |
0 |
0 |
Edwards, Duncan |
1 October 1936
|
20 |
LHB |
Manchester United FC |
12 |
0 |
12 |
4 |
0 |
Finney, Thomas |
5 April 1922 |
35 |
OL |
Preston North End FC |
64 |
0 |
64 |
27 |
0 |
Gratrix, Roy |
9 February 1932 |
25 |
FB /CH |
Blackpool FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Hall, Jeffrey
J. |
7 September 1929
|
27 |
RB |
Birmingham City FC |
14 |
0 |
14 |
0 |
0 |
Haynes, John
N. |
17 October 1934
|
22 |
IL |
Fulham FC |
10 |
0 |
10 |
5 |
0 |
Hodgkinson, Alan |
16 August 1936 |
20 |
GK |
Sheffield United FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1ᵍᵃ |
0 |
Kaye, Arthur |
9 May 1933 |
23 |
F |
Barnsley FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Langley, E. James |
7 February 1929 |
28 |
LB |
Brighton & Hove Albion FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Lofthouse, Nathaniel |
27 August 1925 |
31 |
CF |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
30 |
1 |
31 |
29 |
0 |
Marchi, Anthony V. |
21 January 1933 |
24 |
RHB |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Matthews, Reginald D. |
20 December 1932 |
24 |
GK |
Chelsea FC |
5 |
0 |
5 |
5ᵍᵃ |
0 |
Matthews, Stanley |
1 February 1915 |
42 |
OR |
Blackpool FC |
52 |
0 |
52 |
10 |
0 |
Pegg, David |
20 September 1935
|
21 |
OL |
Manchester United FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Quixall, Albert |
9 August 1933 |
23 |
IF |
Sheffield Wednesday FC |
4 |
1 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
Stevens, Dennis |
30 November 1933 |
23 |
IF |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Taylor,
Thomas |
29 January 1932 |
24 |
CF |
Manchester United FC
|
12 |
1 |
13 |
9 |
0 |
Wheeler, John E. |
26 July 1928 |
28 |
RHB |
Liverpool FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Wright, William A. |
6 February 1924 |
34 |
CHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
82 |
0 |
82 |
3 |
67 |
On Standby |
Clough, Brian H. |
21 March 1935 |
22 |
CF |
Middlesbrough FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Norman, Maurice |
8 May 1934 |
22 |
CHB |
Tottenham Hotspur FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Pilkington, Brian |
12 February 1933 |
24 |
OL |
Burnley FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Wilshaw, Dennis J. |
11 March 1926 |
31 |
IL |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
12 |
0 |
12 |
10 |
0 |
All information is complete to and including
England's last match, the fifth of the 1956-57 season, against
Scotland on 6 April 1957.
Diary
Wednesday, 24 April 1957 -
"The England selectors have boobed again. Today they met to choose
22 players for whom the World Cup teams against Eire and Denmark
next month will be chosen. And from the looks of it you'd think
they'd been hard pushed to FIND 22 international class players!
Men who should never be considered for a cap are in there. And,
worse, men who should stroll into any list of the 22 players in
the country are OUT-snubbed, ignored, forgotten."
- Frank McGhee
Four players are on standby for the first game against Republic of
Ireland in case Manchester United FC players are involved in an FA
Cup replay. The FA will choose the side on Sunday for the
Republic of Ireland match, when they will also reduced the party
down to eighteen players for the trip to Copenhagen and Dublin
four days later.
Thursday, 25 April 1957 -
"Six key players out of the eighteen named today for the England
Under-23 [ed: B team]
Soccer tour behind the Iron Curtain next month may not be
available for the first game against Bulgaria 'B' in Sofia on May
19. They are Alan Hodgkinson, Ron Clayton, Duncan Edwards, Johnny
Haynes, Dennis Stevens and David Pegg. They have all been named
already for the full England team... The missing men will be flown
out in time for the two remaining games of the Under-23
[ed: B team]
tour
against Rumania 'B' in Bucharest on May 26 and against
Czechoslovakia in Bratislava on May 30"
- Frank McGhee
The full tour B team party is: Alan Hodgkinson (Sheffield United), Eddie Hopkinson (Bolton Wanderers);
Jimmy Armfield (Blackpool), Maurice Norman (Tottenham Hotspur),
Graham Shaw (Sheffield United); Stan Anderson (Sunderland), Ron
Clayton (Blackburn Rovers), Duncan Edwards (Manchester United),
Dick Neal (Birmingham City), Trevor Smith (Birmingham City); Alan
A'Court (Liverpool), Jimmy Bloomfield (Arsenal), Brian Clough (Middlesbrough),
Bryan Douglas (Blackburn Rovers), Johnny Haynes (Fulham), Derek
Kevan (West Bromwich Albion), David Pegg (Manchester United) and
Dennis Stevens (Bolton Wanderers).
Sunday, 28 April 1957 -
Johnny Haynes is back in the team, along with Tommy Taylor. Tom
Finney switches back to the left wing, where he also played
against Denmark in December. The eleven that are chosen, alongside
Reg Matthews, Gratrix, Barlow, Lofthouse, Quixall, Stevens and Pegg,
make up the eighteen who go to Copenhagen. Jim Langley, Tony
Marchi, Johnny Wheeler and Arthur Kaye have all been placed on
standby. Marchi will join his club, Tottenham Hotspur, on their
tour of Canada and North America.
Friday, 3 May 1957 -
Their are five enforced changes to the England sides competing at
Highbury tonight.
In the England side, goalkeeper Gil Merrick has
withdrawn because of a knee injury, his place going to Ted
Ditchburn. Tom Finney has not recovered from his groin injury, his
place goes to Ernie Taylor at inside-right and Vic Metcalfe
replaces outside-left George Robb, who has damaged knee. For the
Young England side, Graham Shaw had already replaced left-back
Maurice Norman yesterday, because of his shoulder injury and Vic
Groves comes in at outside-right, replacing Bryan Douglas, who has
club commitments. England 1 Young
England 2 -
"When 22 of the best players in
England are brought together for a match like this at Highbury
they should produce something really good. As a gauge for the
selectors to pick our future international sides, the match
flopped. It wouldn't be fair, however, to include Stanley Matthews
and Billy Wright is the criticism of the older brigade. The young
Bolton goalkeeper did boost his chances. Scorers.—Young England:
Dennis Stevens (22 min), Vic Groves (30 mins). England: Ernie
Taylor (37 mins.)"
- Charles Dettmer
Monday, 6 May 1957 -
Tom Finney will decide this afternoon whether he is fit to be
England's outside-left in the World Cup qualifying match on
Wednesday. Finney, who has a bruised groin, will have a test when
the England players have a practice match against Young England at
Roehampton. If he fails, Manchester United's David Pegg will
probably win his first cap.
Tuesday, 7 May 1957 -
"Two
goal Tom Finney shot away all injury worries with a sparkling
display in an England practice game at Roehampton. But in
Manchester a new doubt for the World Cup match arose when Roger
Byrne, captain of the Busby Boys, complained of a badly bruised
left arm. Byrne was injured early in the second half
[of the FA Cup Final]
against Aston Villa. He couldn't raise his arm after the game and
had to be helped to dress. "My arm is still sore" he said "but I
intend continuing with treatment when I join the rest of the party
in London and expect to have a fitness test. I should be O.K."
"Finney was outside-left in the England team which beat the
Under-23s 5-2. His second goal was a stormer, a left-foot
thunderbolt which flashed into the net from a narrow angle. After
the run-out, Walter Winterbottom announced: "Finney definitely
plays." Big John Atyeo (2) and Nat Lofthouse were England's other
scorers. Bustling Derek Kevan got both Young England's goals."
An official from
Empire Stadium, Wembley has said that only 30,000 tickets have
been sold so far.
England
Form: last six
games |
W
D W W W W
f 17:a 6
success: 92% |
306 |
26 May 1956 -
West
Germany 1
England 3 [0-1]
Olympiastadion, Berlin
(92,000) |
F.Walter
Edwards, Grainger, Haynes |
tour |
AW |
307 |
6 October 1956 -
Northern
Ireland 1 England 1
[1-1]
Windsor Park, Belfast
(58,420) |
McIlroy
Matthews |
BC |
AD |
308 |
14 November 1956 -
England 3
Wales
1
[0-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(93,796) |
Haynes, Brooks, Finney
J.Charles |
HW |
309 |
28 November 1956 -
England 3
Yugoslavia
0
[1-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(78,500) |
Brooks, Taylor (2) |
Fr |
HW |
310 |
5 December 1956 -
England 5
Denmark
2
[2-1]
Molineux, Wolverhampton
(54,083) |
Taylor (3),
Edwards
(2)
O.Nielsen (2) |
WCP |
HW |
311 |
6 April
1957 -
England
2
Scotland
1
[0-1]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(97,520) |
Kevan,
Edwards
Ring |
BC |
HW |
|