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Saturday,
17 October 1959
Home International Championship 1959-60
(65th) Match
Wales 1 England 1
[0-1]
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Ninian Park, Sloper Road, Cardiff,
Glamorgan
Kick-off (GMT): 3.00pm
Attendance: '62,000'; |
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unknown kicked-off |
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100th goal scored in the white 1954
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[0-1] Jimmy Greaves 26
'Flowers
began a midfield move and Charlton cleverly slipped a pass inside
Hopkins. Greaves and Connelly moved in. Connelly shot and Greaves
tapped the ball home after Kelsey could only parry the first effort.' |
[0-1] Graham Moore
headed goal: offside 50 [1-1] Graham Moore
header 89
'Allchurch
and Woosnam combining in midfield sent Cliff Jones away.
Hopkinson failed to leave his line to catch the centre, and Moore
coming in fast, headed home from five yards' |
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Second half live on The Light Programme -
Commentator: tbc |
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"MOORE
SAVES WALES" Sunday Mirror |
Officials
from Northern Ireland |
Wales |
UK ruling on substitutes |
England |
Referee
Thomas
James
Mitchell
47 (28 January 1912), Lurgan, Ulster |
THE FACTS as reported in the Daily News... Fouls—by
Wales 3, by England 9. Corners—to Wales 1, to England
6. Off-side—by Wales 8, England 4. Shots—by
Wales—First half 4, second half 10-14. by England—First half 16, second half
3-19. |
red flag
Linesmen
yellow flag |
D. Carswell |
S.E. Cummings |
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Wales Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 27th to 25th |
Colours |
Made by Umbro -
Red continental jerseys with white v-neck collars/cuffs,
white shorts with red side stripe, red socks with
white tops. |
Captain |
Stuart Williams |
Manager |
James Patrick
Murphy, 49 (8 August 1910), also assistant manager at
Manchester United FC. Team chosen by The International Selection Committee, on
Monday,
5 October |
first, W 0 - D 1 - L 0 - F 1 - A 1. |
Wales
Lineup |
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Kelsey, A. John |
29
332 days |
19 November 1929 |
G |
Arsenal FC, England |
28 |
33ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Williams, Stuart G. |
29 100 days |
9 July 1930 |
RB |
West Bromwich Albion FC, England |
20 |
0 |
3 |
Hopkins, Melvyn |
24
344 days |
7 November 1934 |
LB |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
22 |
0 |
4 |
Crowe, Victor H. |
27 259 days |
31 January 1932 |
RHB |
Aston Villa FC, England |
3 |
0 |
5 |
Nurse, Melvyn T.G. |
22 6 days |
11 October 1937 |
CHB |
Swansea Town FC |
1 |
0 |
6 |
Sullivan, Derrick |
29 68 days |
10 August 1930 |
LHB |
Cardiff City FC |
16 |
0 |
7 |
Medwin, Terence C. |
27 22 days |
25 September 1932 |
OR |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
22 |
3 |
8 |
Woosnam, Philip A. |
26 305 days |
22 December 1932 |
IR |
West Ham United FC, England |
3 |
0 |
9
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Moore, Graham |
18 224 days |
7 March 1941 |
CF |
Cardiff City FC |
1 |
1 |
10 |
Allchurch, Ivor J. |
29 311 days |
16 December 1929 |
IL |
Newcastle United FC, England |
39 |
13 |
11
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Jones, Clifford W. |
24 252 days |
7 February 1935 |
OL |
Tottenham Hotspur FC, England |
24 |
3 |
reserve: |
Alan Harrington (Cardiff City FC) |
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2-3-5 |
Kelsey - Williams, Hopkins - Crowe, Nurse, Sullivan -
Medwin, Woosnam, Moore, Allchurch, Jones. |
Averages: |
Age |
26 years
136
days |
Appearances/Goals |
16.3 |
1.8 |
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England
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 6th to 7th |
Colours |
The 1954 Umbro
home shirt -
White v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, blue shorts,
blue socks with white calf hoop. |
P 40th of 43, W 19 - D 13 - L 8 - F 102 - A 53. |
Captain |
Ronnie Clayton |
Manager |
Walter Winterbottom, 46 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946; |
first of five, W 0 - D 1 - L 0 - F 1 - A 1. |
Trainer: Harold Shepherdson |
P 109th of 139,
W 62 - D 26 - L 21 - F 299 - A 154,
one abandoned. |
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The team chosen by the Selection Committee, headed by Joe Mears, on
Monday, 12 October. |
England
Lineup |
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five changes
from the previous match (Armfield,
Wright, Bradley, Kevan & Haynes out) |
league position
(12 October) |
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Hopkinson, Edward |
23 353 days |
29 October 1935 |
G |
Bolton Wanderers FC
(FL 12th) |
13 |
21ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Howe, Donald |
24 5 days |
12 October 1935 |
RB |
West Bromwich Albion FC
(FL 17th) |
21 |
0 |
781 |
3 |
Allen, Anthony |
19
324 days |
27 November 1939 |
LB |
Stoke City FC (FL2
11th) |
1 |
0 |
the 16th City player to represent England |
4 |
Clayton, Ronald |
25 73 days |
5 August 1934 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC
(FL 5th) |
31 |
0 |
782 |
5 |
Smith, Trevor |
23 187 days |
13 April 1936 |
CHB |
Birmingham City FC
(FL 21st) |
1 |
0 |
the twelfth City player to represent England |
6 |
Flowers, Ronald |
25 81 days |
28 July 1934 |
LHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC (FL
2nd) |
9 |
2 |
783 |
7 |
Connelly, John M. |
21 91 days |
18 July 1938 |
OR |
Burnley FC
(FL 4th) |
1 |
0 |
the 18th Burnley player to
represent England |
8
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Greaves, James P. |
19
239 days |
20 February 1940 |
IR |
Chelsea FC (FL 11th) |
4 |
2 |
784 |
9 |
Clough, Brian H. |
24
210 days |
21 March 1935 |
CF |
Middlesbrough FC
(FL2 3rd) |
1 |
0 |
the 16th/17th Boro player to represent England |
10 |
Charlton, Robert |
22 6 days |
11 October 1937 |
IL |
Manchester United FC
(FL 10th) |
13 |
11 |
785 |
11 |
Holliday, Edwin |
20 132 days |
7 June 1939 |
OL |
Middlesbrough FC
(FL2 3rd) |
1 |
0 |
the 16th/17th Boro player to represent England |
reserve: |
John Smith (West Ham United FC
(FL 3rd)) |
pre-match notes: |
The England party played a practice match on Wednesday
against Arsenal FC at Cheshunt. The sixty-minute ended victorious for
Arsenal, running out 3-1 winners with Jimmy Bloomfield, John Smith (the
England reserve) and Johansson (another guest) scoring for the hosts,
Eddie Holliday getting the reply. |
team notes: |
This is the first England match since 19 May 1951 without Billy Wright
in the line-up, and therefore, it is the youngest starting XI since the early days of England
matches. Ronnie Clayton is England's first new captain for nine years, since
Alf Ramsey in November 1950. Ron Flowers is the fortieth player
under Winterbottom/ISC/post-war to have made nine-or-more appearances. |
records: |
This team is sometimes recorded as the youngest ever. However,
although it is the youngest since the war - and in fact, the youngest
in the twentieth century, it still falls short of the record by 200
days set in
February 1886. |
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2-3-5 |
Hopkinson
- Howe, Allen - Clayton, Smith, Flowers - Connelly, Greaves,
Clough, Charlton, Charlton, Holliday. |
Averages: |
Age |
22 years
255
days |
Appearances/Goals |
8.7 |
1.3 |
Youngest starting XI
since 1886 |
least experienced starting XI
since November 1950 |
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NEWS
by Bill Holden, Daily Mirror, Saturday, 19
September 1959 |
ENGLAND
SHAKE-UP ALL the Football
Association selectors will go to today's League matches with new orders
about how future England teams will be chosen. They have each been briefed
to watch one specific player chosen from a list of forty possibles. And
they will concentrate on deciding if their particular man can fit into the
kind of team England will choose.
This is the result of a new policy,
which was hammered out at a recent meeting of all selectors. It is based
on the belief that there are plenty of world-class players in English
soccer—but that the right blend has yet to be found. The meeting
decided the basis of the playing style they want the England team to adopt
in future. That is still top secret—and so is the list of
more than 40 players who are likely to fit in it. This is the biggest
step forward that has yet been taken toward building a successful
international team. The players have always been there. The 'X' factor
which has been missing was the ability to mould eleven stars into a
match-winning combination. A top-ranking F.A. official told me yesterday
why the old methods have been scrapped. He said: "We have
had a special meeting of all selectors and the idea was to get down to a
player-viewing programme as distinct from a match-viewing programme. This
means that a selector goes out to study and report on a particular player,
and not just watch a game and say he thought some played well and
others played badly. We have issued each selector with a list of
more than forty players who have been recommended or who played in
international football last season. They will be watched consistently by
selectors to weigh up their current form. Every selector will be watching
the players to discover whether they will fit into the type of team we
have now decided to build. In particular, we shall look at players who are
being considered for what we believe are the problem position. The fact
that a Football League side and an Under-23 side have been chosen for
matches next week does not necessarily mean that the team to play Wales in
the frst international at Cardiff on October 17 will be entirely drawn
from these twenty-two players."
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Match Report
by Mike Payne |
IT
was an appalling day's weather at Ninian Park for this international and
the big crowd had to endure a driving wind and heavy rain as well as a
poor performance from the Welsh side. Before the match, Wales were hot
favourites as England with five new caps seeked to rebuild a team able to
challenge the best again. It fell to Ronnie Clayton to succeed the
inimitable Billy Wright as captain and it was with immense pride that the
Blackburn Rovers player led his side out at the start.
His teammates then responded well to the task
and in the first half especially the game gave England hope for a brighter
future. All the new faces settled quickly with Tony Allen the pick of them
with a cultured display at left-back. Wales, meanwhile retained their
usual style but alas for them the way they play is the beginning to look
more and more outdated.
England
attacked from the start and they were soon threatening Kelsey's goal.
Unfortunately for the visitors, the Arsenal goalkeeper was in fine form
and his saves were vital as England pushed for the early breakthrough.
Brian Clough, who had made his name as a big scorer with Second Division
Middlesbrough, saw an effort cleared by Williams from the Welsh goalline
after good work by Edwin Holliday.
Then Kelsey made a superb save
from Bobby Charlton, England's star player. The Manchester United man was
everywhere and he tried all he knew to conjure up a goal. He and Holliday
both put in good attempts and then Jimmy Greaves missed a great chance
when he shot over following a lovely cross by John Connelly.
At
last England finally scored the goal their play deserved when Greaves
netted in the 25th minute. He was brilliantly put through by Charlton and
although Kelsey blocked his first shot, the inside-right, typically,
followed up to score from the rebound. Half-time arrived with England
still one goal up but regretting the fact that it could. and should have
been more.
After all this first-half promise from England, the
second half came as a bitter disappointment and fell way below the
standard one expects from an international football match. Only the
occasional glimpses of class from Woosnam of Wales and Charlton from
England brightened the gloom. The bad weather never relented and there
were precious few moments of note in an uninspiring second 45 minutes.
England had some plusses, though, and all the newcomers did well.
Allen continued his good start and although Trevor Smith looked a little
cumbersome at times, Clough, Holliday and Connelly all showed promise. The
visitors did not seem in too much trouble from the poor Welsh attack and
all looked set for a narrow but comfortable victory. But with barely a
minute left the red-shirted Welsh Dragons suddenly produced a goal out of
nothing.
Jones, who had been largely anonymous up until then,
summoned up his first positive run of the game. At the end of it he sent
over a perfect cross to the far post and there was Moore to head home.
It was a bitter blow for England and they looked back ruefully on
their first half dominance and many missed chances.
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Match Report
by Norman Giller |
For the first time in 71 matches, England
kicked off without the indomitable Billy Wright leading them out. Brian
Clough at long last got the England chance his stack of goals with
Middlesbrough deserved. Into the team with him from the England Under-23
Party came Tony Allen, John Connelly, Cloughie's clubmate Eddie Holliday
and, taking the place of Wright, Birmingham centre-half Trevor Smith. It
was a mix that did not work, and it was a first-half Jimmy Greaves goal
that saved England from defeat against a Welsh team operating without
either of the Charles brothers. The unfortunate Smith spent much of his
debut limping with a calf muscle injury in what were pre-substitute days,
and he could not prevent twenty-year-old Graham Moore from scoring a late
equaliser for Wales. Driving wind and incessant rain made conditions
intolerable, and Cloughie later described it as "one of the most
frustrating games of my life." Jack Kelsey, the exceptional Arsenal
goalkeeper, made a series of magnificent saves in a weather-wrecked game
that rarely rose above the mediocre. Bobby Charlton, for England, and Phil
Woosnam, for Wales, occasionally brightened the gloom with flashes of
brilliance, but it was a match that would be quickly erased from the
memory.
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Match Report
as appears in the F.A. Yearbook 1960-61 page 34 |
It was inevitable that changes would
be made in the line-up following England's disappointing performances in
Brazil, Peru, and Mexico. Allen was given his chance at left-back; Trevor
Smith took over from Billy Wright who had retired; Connelly and Holliday
were on the wings; Clough, who had just netted all five goals for the
Football League against the Irish League, led the attack. Despite a strong
wind and driving rain, both teams played skilfully. England were on top in
the first half, with Connelly and Holliday leading a series of raids,
initiated by Charlton who was playing well back. Greaves and Clough also
looked dangerous and likely to score. But Kelsey and Nurse were cool and
resourceful in the Welsh defence and it was nearly 30 minutes before a
goal came - from Greaves, after the goalkeeper had been unable to hold a
fierce drive from Connelly. England continued to press and looked certain
to add to to their lead, but good efforts by Holliday, Greaves, and
Connelly all missed narrowly. Only Woosnam among the Welsh forwards had
seemed to be making any headway, but after the interval Wales were
dominant, though they had to wait until the very last seconds to equalise
- a long centre from Cliff Jones was headed home beautifully by Moore.
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In
Other News....
It was on 16 October 1959
that a 19-year-old former United States Marine called Lee
Oswald arrived in Moscow and asked if he could become a
Soviet citizen. Though his request was met with suspicion,
and subsequently refused, he was allowed to move to Minsk in
Belarus, where he lived for three years, married and had a
child, before returning to the United States, where he
achieved worldwide notoriety in 1963, and was shot dead, two
days later. |
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Source
Notes |
TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Official Matchday Programme
Wales' Complete Who's Who
since 1946 |
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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 |
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