The
England
Summer Party-Pre Italy
May
1959 |
Player |
Birthdate |
Age |
Pos |
Club |
starts |
subs |
App |
|
Capt |
Armfield, James |
21 September 1935 |
23 |
RB |
Blackpool FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Armfield is unavailable for the match against Italy,
he is part of the
Intermediate party. |
Baynham, Ronald L. |
10 June 1929 |
29 |
GK |
Luton Town FC |
3 |
0 |
3 |
2ᵍᵃ |
0 |
Bradley, Warren |
20 June 1933 |
25 |
OR |
Manchester United FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Broadbent, Peter F. |
15 May 1933 |
25 |
IR |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
4 |
0 |
4 |
2 |
0 |
Charlton, Robert |
11 October 1937 |
21 |
CF |
Manchester United FC |
7 |
0 |
7 |
7 |
0 |
Clayton,
Ronald |
5 August 1934
|
24 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
25 |
0 |
25 |
0 |
0 |
Deeley, Norman V. |
30 November
1933 |
25 |
LHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Flowers, Ronald |
28 July 1934 |
24 |
LHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
3 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
Greaves, James P. |
20 February 1940 |
19 |
IR |
Chelsea FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Greaves is unavailable for the match against Italy,
he is part of the
Intermediate party. |
Gratrix, Roy |
9 February 1932 |
27 |
CHB |
Blackpool FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Haynes, John
N. |
17 October 1934
|
24 |
IL |
Fulham FC |
27 |
0 |
27 |
12 |
0 |
Holden, A. Douglas |
28 September 1930 |
28 |
OL |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Hopkinson, Edward |
29 October 1935 |
23 |
GK |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
7 |
0 |
7 |
9ᵍᵃ |
0 |
Howe, Donald |
12 October 1935 |
23 |
FB |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
15 |
0 |
15 |
0 |
0 |
Kevan, Derek T. |
6 March 1935 |
24 |
CF |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
11 |
0 |
11 |
6 |
0 |
McGuinness, Wilfred |
25 October 1937 |
21 |
LHB |
Manchester United FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Shaw, Graham L. |
9 July 1934 |
24 |
LB |
Sheffield United FC |
3 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
Wright, William A. |
6 February 1924 |
35 |
CHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
100 |
0 |
100 |
3 |
85 |
All information is complete to and including
England's last match, the fourth of the 1958-59 season, against
Scotland on 11 April 1959.
Diary
Monday, 20 April 1959 - England selectors showed their satisfaction with the team that
beat Scotland at Wembley by making just one enforced changed
because of the injury to Bryan Douglas, for the games against
Under-23 team on 1 May at Highbury, and against Italy at Wembley
five days later. The vacancy on the right wing has gone to
Manchester United's Warren Bradley, who already has twelve
appearances for the England Amateur team.
The eleven, along with an additional seven players, will
also make the trip to South America. However, there is still no
recognised centre-forward, with Bobby Charlton expected to fill
the role again. Jimmy Greaves and Jimmy Armfield will go to Milan
to play for the under-23's against Italy on 7 May, returning to
join the tour party who leave on 8 May.
Friday, 1 May 1959 -
England 3
Young England 3:- "This match at Highbury should have been a
showpiece. It was a flop—despite the score. Most of the
players didn't put much effort into their game and many of the
34,212 fans, who were charged top prices, left half an hour after
the game started. Ron Flowers put England ahead in fifteen
minutes. In the 29th minute, Bobby Charlton made it 20. Two
minutes later Charlton hammered home a drive. But Ray Parry
clipped the lead. In the fifty-seventh minute Ray Pointer scored
for Young England. Then Jimmy Greaves grabbed the equaliser."
- Bill Holden, Daily Mirror Roy Gratrix is the
reserve for England against the Young England.
England against
The Press |
A summer tour of South America had been both a football
and PR disaster. Before it even began England had
surrended a 2-0 half-time lead to draw 2-2 with Italy at
Wembley and then things had gone from bad to worse.
Matters weren't helped when a hitherto benevolent press
turned on the players. Leading the charge was the
Daily Herald's new reporter, Sam Leitch. In many
ways, he could be seen as changing the entire complexion
of tabloid football reporting with his forthright attacks
at what he perceived to be the root of England's problems.
His career began with a report on England's 2-2 draw with
Italy: 'Just forty-eight hours before they fly off on
their 20,000-mile tour of the Americas, England plunged
into pathetic depths of tame surrender . . . the full list
of England flops was headed by skipper Billy Wright whose
101st cap was his worst.' Things deteriorated from there
on and Leitch was joined by others at last ready to
chastise the national team. Suddenly gone, it seemed, were
the days when the worst a player could get was a gentle
joshing from a journalist's pen. Now newspapers were
increasingly filled with the kind of invective one would
formerly expect from only the most rabid fan. Expectation
had not just moved up a notch, it was suddenly screaming
from the back pages, particularly when it had not been
lived up to. |
England
Expects, James Corbett, page 154 |
England Form: last six
games |
D
L
D
W
D
W
f 13:a 8
success: 58% |
324 |
15 June 1958 -
England 2
Austria
2 [0-1]
Ryavallen Stadion, Borås
(15,872) |
Haynes, Kevan
Koller, Körner |
WCF |
ND |
325 |
17 June 1958 -
USSR
1 England
0
[0-0]
Nya Ullevi Stadion, Göteborg
(23,182) |
Ilyin |
NL |
326 |
4 October 1958 -
Northern
Ireland 3
England 3
[1-1]
Windsor Park, Belfast
(58,000) |
Cush, Peacock, Casey
Charlton (2),
Finney |
BC |
AD |
327 |
22 October 1958 -
England 5
USSR
0
[1-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(100,000) |
Haynes (3), Charlton (pen), Lofthouse |
Fr |
HW |
328 |
26 November 1958 -
England 2
Wales
2
[1-1]
Villa Park, Birmingham
(40,500) |
Broadbent (2)
Tapscott, Allchurch |
BC |
HD |
329 |
11 April
1959 -
England 1
Scotland
0
[0-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(98,329) |
Charlton |
HW |
|