"CHAMPAGNE
ENGLAND BUBBLE OVER" Daily Mirror |
Officials
from France |
England |
FIFA ruling on substitutes |
Romania |
Referee
Jacques Devillers 46
(23 August 1911), Cambrai |
The IFAB introduced the linesman's flag of 'vivid colours' into the Laws of
the Game. |
flame flag
Linesmen
orange
flag |
Édouard
Eugène Harzic
51 (25
September 1906), Amiens |
Louis Fauquembergue |
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England
Intermediate Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; |
Colours |
The 1954 Umbro
away uniform -
Red v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, white shorts, red
socks with white tops. |
Captain |
Trevor Smith |
Manager |
Walter Winterbottom, 44 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946; |
first of two, W 1 -
D 0 - L 0 - F 6 - A 2. |
tenth of sixteen intermediate matches, W 7 -
D 2 - L 1 - F 32 - A 11. |
Team chosen by the Intermediate Selection Committee, headed by
Frank Adams, on Sunday, 6 October, finalised on Thursday, 11 October. |
England
Lineup |
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four changes to the previous U23 match |
league position
(11 October) |
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Hodgkinson, Alan |
21
61 days |
16 August 1936 |
G |
Sheffield United FC (FL2
13th) |
4 |
3ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Armfield, James |
22 25 days |
21 September 1935 |
RB |
Blackpool FC (FL 14th) |
2 |
0 |
3 |
Harris, Gerald W. |
22
8 days |
8 October 1935 |
LB |
Wolverhampton Wanderers FC (FL TOP) |
2 |
0 |
4 |
Setters, Maurice E. |
20
304 days |
16 December 1936 |
RHB |
West
Bromwich Albion FC (FL
2nd) |
2 |
0 |
5 |
Smith, Trevor |
21
186 days |
13 April 1936 |
CHB |
Birmingham City FC (FL2 11th) |
9 |
0 |
most U23 apps
55-57 |
6
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Crowther, Stanley |
22
43 days |
3 September 1935 |
LHB |
Aston Villa FC (FL 18th) |
2 |
0 |
7
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Brabrook, Peter |
19
342 days |
8 November 1937 |
OR |
Chelsea FC (FL
11th) |
2 |
1 |
8
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Greaves, James P. |
17
238 days |
20 February 1940 |
IR |
Chelsea FC (FL
11th) |
2 |
4 |
51 |
9
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Curry, William Morton |
22
4 days |
12 October 1935 |
CF |
Newcastle United FC (FL
12th) |
1 |
1 |
only U23 app
1957 |
52 |
10 |
Parry, Raymond A. |
21
270 days |
19 January 1936 |
IL |
Bolton Wanderers FC (FL 9th) |
1 |
0 |
11 |
A'Court, Alan |
23
16 days |
30 September 1934 |
OL |
Liverpool FC (FL2
4th) |
3 |
1 |
reserves: |
Jimmy Armfield, Stan Crowther and Ray Parry were the original named
reserves. When the side was formalised on 11 October, new reserves
were chosen:- Peter Wakeham (Torquay United FC (FL3S
24th BOTTOM)), Larry Carberry
(Ipswich Town FC (FL2 14th)) and
Bobby Charlton (Manchester United FC (FL
4th)), who was also
celebrating his twentieth birthday. |
team changes: |
The original team was announced with the inclusion of Don Howe, Duncan
Edwards and Johnny Haynes in the side, and the acknowledgement that
those three players will probably be named in the senior side. |
pre-match notes: |
The under-23 team practised at the Empire Stadium, along with the
senior side, on Tuesday 14th. And at Finchley on the day of the match. |
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2-3-5 |
Hodgkinson - Armfield, Harris - Setters, Smith, Crowther -
Brabrook, Greaves, Curry, Parry, A'Court. |
Averages: |
Age |
21 years 103 days |
Appearances/Goals |
2.7 |
0.4 |
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Romania
Intermediate Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; |
Colours |
yellow shirts, dark blue shorts |
Captain |
Gheorge Pahonţu |
Manager |
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Romania
Lineup |
1 |
Utu, Iuliu |
21
42 days |
4 September 1936 |
G |
FC Dinamo Bucareşti |
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2 |
Pahonţu, Gheorge |
24
91 days |
17 July 1933 |
RB |
FC Petrolul Ploieşti |
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oldest opp. U23 player
so far |
3 |
Szakács, Iosif |
23
264 days |
25 January 1934 |
LB |
FC Dinamo Cluj |
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4 |
Vasile, T. |
nk |
not known |
LHB |
FC Dinamo Bucareşti |
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5 |
Stanch |
nk |
not known |
CHB |
Ştiinţa Timişoara |
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6 |
Nunweiler, Ion |
21
280 days |
9 January 1936 |
RHB |
FC Dinamo Bucareşti |
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7 |
Anghel, Vasile |
19
328 days |
22 November 1937 |
OR |
FC Dinamo Bucareşti |
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8 |
Seredai, Vasile |
23
298 days |
22 December 1933 |
IL |
FC
Lokomotiva Bucareşti |
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|
9
|
Ene, Gheorghe |
20
262 days |
27 January 1937 |
CF |
FC
Lokomotiva Bucareşti |
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|
10
|
Georgescu, Nicolae |
21
288 days |
1 January 1936 |
IR |
FC
Lokomotiva Bucareşti |
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|
11 |
Semenescu, C |
nk |
not known |
OL |
FC
Lokomotiva Bucareşti |
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unused substitutes: |
not known |
team changes: |
Georgescu appears to have replaced Alexandru Meszaros (CS Târgu Mureş)
and Semenescu seems to have replaced S. Buekkoesi (CCA Bucareşti), who
was the original centre-forward, meaning their was positional changes
too. Anghel swapping wings from left to right and Ene, the
outside-right, going into the middle. |
team notes: |
The Romanian under-23 team
flew into England on Sunday, 13 October as part of the 45-man party.
'The largest foreign party ever to tour
Britain. In addition to the under-23, there will be a Youth
international between the two countries.'. The under-23's then
trained under the floodlights of Brentford FC's Griffin Park ground. |
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2-3-5 |
Utu - Pahonţu, Szakács -
Vasile, Stanch, Nunweiler - Anghel, Seredai, Ene, Georgescu,
Semenescu |
Averages: |
Age |
tbc |
Appearances/Goals |
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Match Report
by Bill Holden, Daily Mirror, Thursday,
17 October 1957 |
AFTER
a champagne start with a goal in the first minute, Young England gained a
close victory over Rumania at Wembley Stadium.
But the game, which had promised greatness, became tawdry through petty
fouling. Quick-fire Young England flashed into a one-minute lead. Jimmy
Greaves, 17, cracked it in and proceeded to make life a misery for the
Rumanians. He and Villa's blond bomber Stan Crowther inspired fourteen
minutes of sheer supremacy from the kick off.
It was
Crowther who began the thrust for the first goal.
He broke up a
threatened Rumanian attack before it could reach the half-way line and set
up a left-wing raid himself. Inside-left Ray Parry flicked the ball to
Alan A'Court and as the left winger's cross was nodded down Greaves
pounced to crack in a low drive.
Crowther and then
A'Court had long, dangerous shots held by Utu, the Rumanian goalkeeper,
and then he made a brilliant save from Greaves.
Then for a spell
England faded. The first time the Rumanians got within shooting distance
they came as near to equalising as anyone ever could. Outside right Anghel
dallied plumb in front of goal and by the time he had decided to shoot
goalkeeper Alan Hodgkinson had rushed out to parry his shot. Anghel got to
the ball again, but by then three England players had dashed back on to
the goal line and left back Gerry Harris turned the shot round the post
for a corner. The Rumanians appealed for a penalty.
The crowd fell into a hushed murmur of uncertainty, but the French
referee, J. Devillers, gave a corner. Centre forward Ene missed another
chance when he beat Hodgkinson in a race for the ball and pushed it wide
of the post as the 'keeper lay helpless.
England
breathed once more . . . THANKS TO GREAVES again.
He
catapulted forward in the twenty-third minute to head in a cross from
A'Court and finished his plunge by somersaulting into the net after the
ball. The joy lasted just three minutes. Hodgkinson failed to hold a
centre from the left and Ene darted in to cut England's lead.
Eleven minutes later it was lost entirely.
This time England's
defence was slow to anticipate a cross from the right and before they
could move to cut it off inside left Georgescu had slipped in to crack the
ball home. In the fifty-fifth minute centre forward Bill Curry rose to nod
down a Lawton-like bullet but Utu held it on the line. And that Curry
header really turned the English tap full on. Utu clutched and clawed at a
long shot from Stan Crowther, grabbing it at last as if life itself
depended on him holding it.
He did it again with a
header from Greaves . . . he dashed out to intercept . . . he held another
header from Curry.
But a goal had to come. In the sixtieth minute
in a furious goalmouth battle for possession, Curry had a split-second
chance and he took it with a rasping shot which crashed down over the line
from the crossbar. Parry and Groves juggled their way through again,
holding off a succession of tough challenges—one of which, a 'tackle' on
Greaves, could easily have been a penalty. Near the end England twice
had the Rumanians struggling desperately and from a free-kick A'Court
whizzed a header just wide of a post. But the Rumanians almost snatched
success from England in the dying minutes when unhappy Hodgkinson again
failed to hold a cross shot and the ball skidded from him to nip outside
the far upright.
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Match Report
by Glen Isherwood |
England, in red shirts, won the only international at this level
to be played at Wembley despite losing the two-goal lead given them by
Jimmy Greaves on his first appearance at the stadium. Greaves went on to
score 44 goals in 57 full internationals after scoring a record 13 goals
in 12 under-23 internationals.
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Match Report
as appears in the F.A. Yearbook 1958-59 page 30 |
After their comfortable win over Bulgaria the England Under-23 team, was
given a rather rude awakening when they were only able to beat Rumania by
the odd goal in five. The match opened sensationally with a superbly taken
goal by Greaves within fifty seconds of the kick-off, and twenty minutes
later the same player put England two up with a fine diving header. The
came an amazing turn in the game's fortunes, for within further fifteen
minutes Rumania were level through goals scored by Ene and Georgescu.
For a while it appeared that England might well completely lose their
grasp on the game, but a partial revival was rewarded with a goal by
Curry which restored their lead. During the remaining thirty minutes there
was no further score. Once again Crowther had a fine game, and young
Greaves will also retain pleasant memories of his first game at Wembley.
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Football
League Division One
Everton
2 Arsenal 2
Goodison
Park, Liverpool
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Thomas, Harris
~ Bloomfield, Herd |
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Source
Notes |
Official matchday
programme FA Yearbook 1958-59 |
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Rothman's Yearbooks
Original newspaper reports Glen Isherwood's Complete
Record of Wembley |
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