The
England
Summer Party-Pre Peru
May
1959 |
Player |
Birthdate |
Age |
Pos |
Club |
starts |
subs |
App |
|
Capt |
Armfield, James |
21 September 1935 |
23 |
RB |
Blackpool FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
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 |
1 |
0 |
1 |
1 |
0 |
Broadbent, Peter F. |
15 May 1933 |
26 |
IR |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
6 |
0 |
6 |
2 |
0 |
Charlton, Robert |
11 October 1937 |
21 |
CF |
Manchester United FC |
9 |
0 |
9 |
8 |
0 |
Clayton,
Ronald |
5 August 1934
|
24 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC |
27 |
0 |
27 |
0 |
0 |
Deeley, Norman V. |
30 November
1933 |
25 |
OR |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
1 |
0 |
1 |
0 |
0 |
Flowers, Ronald |
28 July 1934 |
24 |
LHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
5 |
0 |
5 |
0 |
0 |
Greaves, James P. |
20 February 1940 |
19 |
IR |
Chelsea FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Gratrix, Roy |
9 February 1932 |
27 |
CHB |
Blackpool FC |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
0 |
Haynes, John
N. |
17 October 1934
|
24 |
IL |
Fulham FC |
29 |
0 |
29 |
12 |
0 |
Holden, A. Douglas |
28 September 1930 |
28 |
OL |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
3 |
0 |
3 |
0 |
0 |
Hopkinson, Edward |
29 October 1935 |
23 |
GK |
Bolton Wanderers FC |
9 |
0 |
9 |
13ᵍᵃ |
0 |
Howe, Donald |
12 October 1935 |
23 |
FB |
West Bromwich Albion FC |
17 |
0 |
17 |
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 |
4 |
0 |
4 |
0 |
0 |
Wright, William A. |
6 February 1924 |
35 |
CHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC |
102 |
0 |
102 |
3 |
87 |
All information is complete to and including England's last match,
the sixth of the 1958-59 season, against Brazil on 13 May 1959.
Diary
South American Tour — the Facts |
THIS year's tour of Brazil, Peru, Mexico and the United
States provoked possibly more comment and criticism than
any other. This was doubtless because of the results,
which were plainly disappointing, but so much of the
criticism was based on superficial thinking that it may be
profitable to take a closer look at the problems of
foreign tours in general and this one in particular.
The match in Brazil was clearly the key to the entire
tour, As long ago as 1950, during the World Championship
in Brazil, England had been invited to play there. It was
then felt it would be better to wait a few years before
returning. When the Football Association made its first
tour to South America in 1953, with matches in Argentina,
Chile, Uruguay and, on the way home, the United States,
Brazilian officials met the party at Rio airport en
route for Buenos Aires and pressed them to play a
match there and then. At the same time the Peruvian
authorities pressed even harder that England should
inaugurate the new national stadium in Lima and offered
attractive terms if this could be done. But such was the
schedule of that tour that additional matches were quite
impossible. Nevertheless it was settled in
principle that Brazil should play in London in 1956, and
that England should play in Rio in 1957. But the new
system of World Cup qualifying matches when England had to
meet the Irish Republic and Denmark - instead of using the
British Championship - meant that additional fixtures
could not be undertaken that year. The 1958 World
Championship kept everyone fully occupied and 1959 was the
earliest year in which England could play a return match
in Brazil. This was confirmed, as were the the matches
with Peru and Mexico, late in 1957 and again during the
1958 World Cup in Sweden. It will thus be seen that even
arranging dates and terms involves complex discussion and
correspondence over a long period. |
The
Official F.A. Yearbook, 1959-60, page 15 |
Monday, 20 April 1959 - The 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.
Wednesday, 6 May
1959 - England 2 Italy 2 -
"NOW England knows the worst, and the selectors have seven days in
which to find a new attack capable of denting Brazil's defence in
Rio next Wednesday. Thank goodness that in this drawn
international at Wembley we discovered the limitations of this
present England team BEFORE it set off for a 20,000-mile tour of
The Americas tomorrow. There were no other consolations. Even a
brilliant goal from Bobby Charlton that shot England into the lead
in the 26th minute could not inspire an attack of struggling
individuals. True, Warren Bradley snatched a second goal in the
40th minute to set up a 2—0 advantage, but it was lost. The
Italians scored twice in the 13 minutes of the second half when
England were without left-half Ron Flowers, who left the field
with a suspected broken nose after a clash with centre-forward
Sergio Brighenti. Flowers came back to play as well as ever, and
excuses do not obscure the fact that this match must mark the end
of an experiment." - John
Camkin, News Chronicle "Someone blundered at
Wembley. And afterwards there were protests in the Italian Chamber
of Deputies—and red faces among the members of the massed band of
the Green Jacket Brigade. The England-Italy football match was
about to start. The players lined up,
and the crowd of 90,000 stood as the band prepared to play the
national anthems of the two countries. But as the first notes of
the Italian anthem rang out Italians gasped. The band was playing
the wrong tune. Instead of Italy's present anthem, 'Inno di Mameli,'
the band struck up the old 'Royal March'—used under the Mussolini
regime and dropped when Italy became a Republic. In the Chamber of
Deputies two left-wing members leapt up to urge the government to
protest to Britain against the playing of the 'Fascist Royal
March.' It was, they said, 'an insult to the Italian Republic.'
The choice of music is usually the responsibility of the
bandmasters. Bandmaster E. W. Jeanes, of the Second Green jackets,
said: 'The anthem came from a War Office publication, 'National
Anthems of the Nations,' issued n 1910, although revisions are
made from time to time.' At the after-match banquet, Mr. Joe
Mears, chairman of the England selectors, said: 'I apologise most
humbly to our Italian friends. The repercussions from Italy have
been serious. The Green Jackets will receive a rocket.'"
- News Chronicle
Walter
Winterbottom immediately flies off to Milan to watch the Young
England side take on the Young Italian side.
Thursday, 7 May 1959 - Ron Flowers broke
his nose yesterday as confirmed by an ex-ray at Wembley hospital.
'The break is at the bridge of the nose and it should not
interfere with his forthcoming tour of the Americas.'
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 |
South American Tour — the Facts |
The party
which made the 1959 tour, including players, officials,
Press and TV representatives, numbered no less than 39.
Moving such a group over more than 20,000 miles, two
continents and through four great cities requires the
planning and detail of a minor military operation.
Transportation alone demands a careful study of schedules
so that the players will be given the maximum time
possible in which to relax after each match and also to
readjust to the different conditions of a new country, and
to train and prepare for the next match. Each country has
its own immigration requirements, so that visas,
inoculations, vaccinations, photographs and travel
reservations demand a tremendous amount of staff-work.
Baggage in itself is a considerable problem. Such is
the amount of hospitality offered by the host
associations, the various embassies, English colonies and
private individuals that a careful balance must be struck
between the requirements of discipline and serious
training in the team and the common politeness one always
wants to show to one's hosts. Hotels must be reserved and
checked so that the team and party is neither isolated
beyond contact with the people and the way of life of the
country visited—for this can give a valuable insight
into the opponents' approach to the game - or over-exposed
to the noises and stresses of a great capital city on the
eve of the match. |
The
Official F.A. Yearbook, 1959-60, pages 15 & 16 |
Friday, 8 May 1959 - Eighteen
players and more England officials leave London Airport today at
1.30pm, on Flight SR460 bound for Recife via Lisbon. Then after a
connecting flight to Rio, they will arrive after a 26-hour flight
tomorrow afternoon. They will be staying in the plush Hotel Gloria, overlooking the
Copacabana beach. The Selectors are lead by Chelsea FC's Joe
Mears, along with Chesterfield FC's Harold Shentall, and
Lieutenant Colonel
Gerry Mitchell, of the Army FA. The FA secretary, Sir Stanley Rous
also accompanies them. Winterbottom and Harold Shepherdson,
trainer, make up the group of six officials.
Sunday, 10 May 1959
-
"BILLY WRIGHT, England's hero of 101 internationals, told me here
today that he will decide whether to retire or not when the
England party return to London at the end of the month." -
John Camkin, Rio, News Chronicle
The England party are
training at the local cricket ground in Copacabana, as they are
not allowed to train at the Maracana Stadium, with its lush green
pitch. Three years ago, the Football Association refused Brazil
permission to train at Wembley. The Brazilian Federation are
repaying the favour.
Evening
-
"Four selectors and team manager Walter Winterbottom sipped cool
drinks on the balcony of their hotel overlooking the Copacabana
beach as they picked the 11 men who will face the might of Brazil
in the torrid heat of the vast Maracana Stadium."
Monday, 11 May 1959 - The eighteen
players alongside Walter Winterbottom and his coaching staff are
at the Fluminese Stadium, training in the mid-afternoon sunshine.
A blatant tactic from Winterbottom to get his team acclimatised to
the Rio summer heat.
Tuesday, 12 May 1959 -
The Brazilian Federation have finally relaxed their rule of
allowing the English players to train on the pitch at the Maracana.
Rather than a beating sun, it has been raining all day in Rio,
with the temperature plummeting in to the low sixties.
Wednesday, 13 May
1959 - Brazil 2 England 0
- "BILLY WRIGHT and his England team-mates found themselves right
out of the luck in the vast Maracana Stadium here this afternoon.
The dusky Brazilians, fading champions of world football,
celebrated their first victory over the old masters only by the
skin of their gleaming white teeth. They can thank a third-minute
goal, which virtually decided this prestige-laden match. That goal
brought a barrage of firecrackers from 151 excited fans. But it
was a present from the white-shirted Englishmen, whose nerves were
obviously jangling. Ten minutes later—when England had settled
down—the move would have been stopped every time by either Wright
or Jim Armfield. Only 25 minutes afterwards, came another goal . .
. ANOTHER PRESENT. This time from referee Brozzi, of Argentina.
Like the England men, who protested so fervently, I thought
centre-forward Henrique was two yards offside when Julinho sent
him clear. Not for one moment do I suggest England should have
beaten a Brazilian team only a pale shadow of the one I saw thrash
Sweden in the World Cup Final in June. But England, still ticking
on only two forward cylinders, weren't the weaker side, by any
means, in a disappointing match. The huge crowd sat strangely
silent as the white-shirted forwards dominated the second half." -
John Camkin, Rio, News Chronicle
England against
The Press |
Criticism tended to focus on Wright or Haynes and the
latter, now the chips were down, was increasingly seen as
a moody, petulant individual. An intolerant glare or even
a volley of abuse would be directed the way of any mere
mortal who received one of his searching passes and had
the temerity to fluff the subsequent opportunity. 'It was
myself I was getting the hump with for not getting the
pass quite right,' he explained years later in retirement.
'I was a bit of a perfectionist; it was me cursing myself
rather than my mate.' On 13 May 1959, in
front of an estimated crowd of 160,000 in the Maracana,
England fell to a 0-2 defeat to Brazil. If no disgrace
come from that, plenty was to follow. |
England
Expects, James Corbett, pages 154 & 155 |
South American Tour — the Facts |
England team officials had been able to see Brazil and
Mexico play in the 1958 World Cup, and were given a full
and detailed report on the Peruvian team. |
The
Official F.A. Yearbook, 1959-60, page 16 |
Friday, 15 May 1959 -
After the team to face Peru is announced, Jimmy Greaves replaces
Peter Broadbent in the only change, the England party fly 2,500
miles to Lima through the Andes. The party arrive late evening.
Saturday, 16 May 1959 -
The team start training early in the morning at Lima cricket and
football club ground.
In the evening,
the party trained under the floodlights of the National Stadium,
where they are due to play tomorrow night.
Tuesday, 19 May 1959 -
England will probably play Peru at Wembley in 1961. Officials with
the England team gave the news in Lima today. The Peru team have
already arranged to play Spain, Portugal and West Germany, and may
also arrange to play the other Home Nations too.
South American Tour — the Facts |
The use of training grounds on tour also requires
forethought. Since no visiting country is allowed to train
at Wembley, it is sometimes difficult abroad to train in
the match stadium. In Lima the team trained once in the
national stadium and also at the Lima Cricket and Football
Club, where the English colony was extremely hospitable. |
The
Official F.A. Yearbook, 1959-60, page 16 |
T hursday, 21 May 1959 -
"Sir Berkeley Gage, British Ambassador in Lima, made a diplomatic
incident out of English Soccer. He wrote to all the Lima papers
saying that British Press criticism of England's 4-1 thrashing in
Peru 'does nor represent British public opinion.' Sir Berkeley
said that the newspaper comments on the defeat might give the
impression the public here 'had reacted in a petulant and
unsporting way.... Britain is always prepared to accept defeat in
sporting events and to accept victory in the same traditional calm
and the same sporting spirit. The lamentable thing is that the
British public has not been able to enjoy the opportunity of
seeing for itself what was a splendid game.' Sir Berkeley was
moved to write this sorry effort by the re-publication in Lima of
British comments on the defeat. Sports-writers' opinions, said Our
Man in Peru, did not represent public opinion at home. Sir
Berkeley knows as much about British public opinion as I do about
the inner workings of the Lima embassy—NOTHING." -
Daily Herald
England against
The Press |
Four days later Peru beat England 4-1 in Lima and Leitch
was apoplectic:
'Struggling, pathetic shame oozed out of every
England football boot here at the foot of the
Andes mountains tonight as a lightweight,
slap-happy side from the ten first division teams
of Peru thrashed us in a game which could have
easily ended 8-1. Beside me as I type, people jab
at me through the twelve-foot high fence which
protects us from the crowd. They beam and ask: is
this really the first national side from England?
Here tonight, as Belo Horizonte nine years ago
when America beat us 1-0, a great name of English
football was reduced to futile palaver . . . to a
pathetic indifference . . . to sheer out of date
fumbling.' |
|
England
Expects, James Corbett, page 155 |
England Form: last six
games |
D
W
D
W D
L f 13:a
9
success: 58% |
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 |
330 |
6 May 1959 -
England 2 Italy
2
[2-0]
Empire Stadium, Wembley
(90,000-91,000) |
Charlton, Bradley
Brighenti, Mariani |
Fr |
HD |
331 |
13 May 1959 -
Brazil 2
England 0
[2-0]
Estádio Municipal, Rio de Janeiro (150,000-200,000) |
Julinho, Henrique |
tour |
AL |
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