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"ENGLAND
GIVEN THE HORSE-LAUGH"
Daily Mirror |
Officials
from Scotland |
England |
FIFA ruling on substitutes |
Sweden |
Referee
(black)
Robert Holley
Davidson 31 (19 July 1928), Airdrie |
in the event of injury, a substitute goalkeeper will be allowed at
any time and one other player up until the 44th minute.
THE FACTS as reported in the Daily News...
Fouls—by England 6, by Sweden 9. Corners—to England
7, to Sweden 8. Off-side—by England 6, by Sweden 9.
Shots—by England 26 (13 each half), by Sweden 17 (six in
first half). Only two Swedish shots missed the goal compared with 13 by
England. |
flame flag
Linesmen
orange flag |
J. Maule East Kilbride |
E.F.K. Webster Glasgow |
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England Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 7th to 8th |
Colours |
The 1959 Bukta
home uniform -
White v-necked short-sleeved continental jerseys, blue shorts, red
socks with white calf hoop. |
P second of 38, W 1 - D 0 - L 1 - F 3 - A 3. |
Captain |
Ronnie Clayton |
Manager |
Walter Winterbottom, 46 (31 March 1913), appointed as FA national director of coaching/team manager on 8 July 1946; |
2nd of five, W 0 - D 1 - L 1 - F 3 - A 4. |
Trainer: Harold Shepherdson |
P 110th of 139,
W 62 - D 26 - L 22 - F 301 - A 157,
one abandoned. |
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The team chosen by Selection Committee, headed by Joe Mears, on
Friday afternoon, 23 October in Sheffield. |
England
Lineup |
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unchanged from the previous match |
league position
(23 October) |
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Hopkinson, Edward |
23 364 days |
29 October 1935 |
G |
Bolton Wanderers FC
(FL 13th) |
14 |
24ᵍᵃ |
final app
1957-59 |
2 |
Howe, Donald |
24 16 days |
12 October 1935 |
RB |
West Bromwich Albion FC
(FL 15th) |
22 |
0 |
3 |
Allen, Anthony |
19
335 days |
27 November 1939 |
LB |
Stoke City FC (FL2
12th) |
2 |
0 |
4 |
Clayton, Ronald |
25 84 days |
5 August 1934 |
RHB |
Blackburn Rovers FC
(FL 4th) |
32 |
0 |
5 |
Smith, Trevor |
23 198 days |
13 April 1936 |
CHB |
Birmingham City FC
(FL 18th) |
2 |
0 |
final app
1959 |
6 |
Flowers, Ronald |
25 92 days |
28 July 1934 |
LHB |
Wolverhampton
Wanderers FC (FL
2nd) |
10 |
2 |
7
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Connelly, John M. |
21 102 days |
18 July 1938 |
OR |
Burnley FC
(FL 7th) |
2 |
1 |
8
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Greaves, James P. |
19
250 days |
20 February 1940 |
IR |
Chelsea FC (FL 9th) |
5 |
2 |
9
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Clough, Brian H. |
24
221 days |
21 March 1935 |
CF |
Middlesbrough FC
(FL2 4th) |
2 |
0 |
final app
1959 |
10
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Charlton, Robert |
22 17 days |
11 October 1937 |
IL |
Manchester United FC
(FL 12th) |
14 |
12 |
11 |
Holliday, Edwin |
20 143 days |
7 June 1939 |
OL |
Middlesbrough FC
(FL2 4th) |
2 |
0 |
reserves: |
Ron Springett (Sheffield Wednesday FC
(FL 11th)),
Maurice Setters (West Bromwich Albion FC
(FL 15th)),
Ray Parry (Bolton Wanderers FC
(FL 13th)) |
pre-match notes: |
The England party assembled at Highbury on Monday and held a practice
match against their hosts in the afternoon. Maurice Setters deputised for Ron Flowers, who
was suffering with a leg strain. The 50-minute practice match ended in
a 2-2 draw (Charlton and Holliday scoring for England, and two from
David Herd for Arsenal FC, who had Springett and Parry in their side).
The evening was spent viewing Swedish football matches. On Tuesday, they trained at Cheshunt, the
training ground of Tottenham Hotspur FC and had a 90-minute practice
match. |
team notes: |
Jimmy Greaves becomes the 65th player to make five-or-more appearances
under Winterbottom/ISC/post-war |
records: |
This is England's fourth loss in 1959, it is only the second time that
they have lost four matches in a single calendar year. The first being
in 1936. It is England's
25th home loss since the first in 1877. It is the second defeat at
home by a European nation. |
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2-3-5 |
Hopkinson
- Howe, Allen - Clayton, Smith, Flowers - Connelly, Greaves,
Clough, Charlton, Charlton, Holliday. |
Averages: |
Age |
22 years
266
days |
Appearances/Goals |
9.7 |
1.4 |
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Sweden
Team |
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Rank |
No official ranking system established; ELO rating 6th to 4th |
Colours |
Pale blue long sleeved wing-collared jerseys, white shorts, blue socks
with yellow tops. |
"Sweden normally
play in yellow shirts, but for contrasting purposes, particularly in view of
television, they will change to blue shirts with white shorts for the
match." |
Captain |
Orvar Bergmark |
Team Manager |
Einar Jonasson Selection was still chosen by the Selection Committee,
headed by Erik Persson,
announced Monday morning, 26 October.
Jonasson replaced Carl-Elis Halldén, who stood
down for health reasons. |
Trainer:
Torsten Lindberg |
Sweden
Lineup |
1 |
Nyholm, Bengt O. |
29 271 days |
30 January 1930 |
G |
IFK Norrköping |
5 |
5ᵍᵃ |
2 |
Bergmark, E.
Orvar |
28 346 days |
16 November 1930 |
RB |
Örebro Sk (also club trainer) |
52 |
0 |
3 |
Axbom, Sven E.E. |
33 13 days |
15 October 1926 |
LB |
IFK Norrköping |
29 |
0 |
4 |
Parling, Sigvard E. |
29 216 days |
26 March 1930 |
RHB |
Djurgårdens IF |
34 |
0 |
5 |
Johansson, Åke B. |
31 223 days |
19 March 1928 |
CHB |
IFK Norrköping |
22 |
1 |
6 |
Jonsson, Torbjörn |
23 175 days |
6 May 1936 |
LHB |
IFK Norrköping |
14 |
6 |
7
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Salomonsson, Bengt |
24 30 days |
28 September 1935 |
OR |
Helsingborgs IF |
2 |
1 |
8 |
Börjesson, Rune |
22 187 days |
24 April 1937 |
IR |
Örgryte IS |
7 |
6 |
9
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Simonsson, T.K.
Agne |
24 9 days |
19 October 1935 |
CF |
Örgryte IS |
17 |
16 |
10
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Berndtsson, Bengt R. |
22 275 days |
26 January 1933 |
OL |
IFK Göteborg |
17 |
7 |
11 |
Thillberg, Henry G. |
29 216 days |
17 August 1930 |
IL |
Malmö FF |
20 |
9 |
reserves: |
Arne Arvidsson (goalkeeper, Djurgårdens IF);
Prawitz Öberg (half-back, Malmö FF), and four others. |
pre-match notes: |
Sweden had a selection of seventeen players to choose from for the
matches against England and Republic of Ireland, from which Lars
Broström withdrew, because of business commitments. His place in the
party went to Prawitz Öberg. The party and officials arrived late
at Gatwick Airport on the Monday, 26th. |
team notes: |
The starting XI are on an equivalent £3 10s. match fee.
For a victory, they received an extra £7 (100 krona). George
Raynor, former coach of the Swedish national team, now manager of
Skegness FC in the Midland League, had reported to the Swedish
Committee prior to the match his findings on the England team. He was
re-employed as an advisor for the duration of the Swedish tour. |
The Chairman of Sweden's Selection Committee, Eric Persson, played for
Sweden against England
in the May 1937 friendly. |
The Swedish party were to have trained and have full use of the facilities
at Stamford Bridge, home of Chelsea FC, from their arrival. However, their
late arrival, because of headwinds during their flight from Stockholm,
forced them to
abandon that initial plan, and instead, visited Wembley Stadium on Tuesday
morning before training at Craven Cottage, Fulham, in the afternoon.
Throughout, they stayed at Park Lane Hotel, in London. |
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2-3-5 |
Nyholm - Bergmark, Axbom - Jonsson, Johansson, Parling - Berndtsson,
Thillberg, Simonsson, Börjesson, Salomonsson |
Averages: |
Age |
27 years
200
days |
Appearances/Goals |
19.9 |
3.9 |
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Match Report
by Mike Payne |
AS in 1953, when Hungary
were the never-to-be-forgotten visitors, England were once again taught a
football lesson by an emerging power in the game. Whereas the home side
employed the traditional game, the Swedes strolled effortlessly through
the proceedings with an air of authority not born out by the final
scoreline. All through the match there was so much to admire in the deft
touches of the talented Swedish team, but for England there must be many
question-marks in their attempts to build a side capable of mounting a
serious challenge on the 1962 World Cup in Chile.
On a dull, grey afternoon, 72,000 people
gathered to see a game that was full of incident. It started well enough
for England, who settled quickly. In fact for the opening 20 minutes they
controlled the play and during that time they scored an excellent goal. It
was on eight minutes that a move involving Don Howe, John Connelly, Jimmy
Greaves and Brian Clough, worked its way down the right nicely. When the
final pass came in, Connelly met the ball to flick the ball past Nyholm.
However, as the half wore on
Sweden began to find their feet and by the half-hour they could easily
have been level. Twice Berntdsson met Simonsson passes but succeeded only
in rattling each of Eddie Hopkinson's posts. Simonsson, by now, was
stamping his undoubted class on the game and he gave Trevor Smith a torrid
afternoon at the heart of England's defence. Smith looked slow and
ponderous as the balance and skill of Simmonsen weaved patterns around
him.
For England, Bobby Charlton was struggling in his role of
midfield provider and all the forwards were guilty of holding on to the
ball too long.. Clough almost added a second for England before half-time
when he intercepted a sloppy backpass by Johansson, but he too was
thwarted by a goalpost.
After the break, the Swedes stepped up a
gear. Superbly marshalled by Jönsson at right-half, they began to
make their extra skills count. The inside trio of Thillberg, Simonsson and
Börjesson were constantly in the action.
A fast interchange of
passes between Simonsson and Börjesson ended with a rebound falling just
right for Simonsson to shoot home from the narrowest of angles with great
accuracy. The Swedes were delighted but the crowd began to barrack the
England players. Hopkinson bore the brunt of their frustration as he mixed
some brave saves with inexplicable errors. Smith, too, was struggling and
England were now really up against it. Clough did hit the bar with a
header, from a Connelly centre, but that was an isolated raid.
With
15 minutes to go, the result was settled by a third Swedish goal. A clever
move down the right drew the whole England defence over and the
ever-dangerous Simonsson, spotting Salomonsson unmarked in the middle,
flicked the ball inside for the number-ten [nine] to shoot home.
England, to their credit, rallied strongly towards the end and Greaves
contributed his best moment by cleverly putting Charlton through to reduce
the arrears with a well-taken goal. Alas, the fightback was too late and
Sweden, with Jonsson and Simonsson outstanding, ended worthy winners.
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Match Report
by Norman Giller |
An
unchanged team was given a second chance, but a defeat by Sweden signalled the
end of the international road for Hopkinson, Smith and Cloughie. They carried
the can for a pathetic performance that brought rare jeers from England
supporters. The Swedes, World Cup runners-up to Brazil when host nation in
1958, played a smooth, walkabout game punctuated with sudden changes of pace
that had England's defenders exposed to the perils of panic. It all started
promisingly for England when John Connelly put the finishing touch to a swift
five-man movement, but this was one of the few memorable moments from England
for the 72,000 Wembley spectators.
The
Swedes rattled the England woodwork twice in the first-half as warning signs
of what was to follow. Within 15 minutes of the second-half Sweden were 2-1 in
the lead as they tore the England defence apart, and man-of-the-match Agne
Simonsson made it 3-1 in the 75th minute. The skilful Swedish
centre-forward made such an impression that the next day he was signed by Real
Madrid. Jimmy Greaves cleverly created an opening for Bobby Charlton to make
it 3-2, but there were plenty of witnesses to the fact that England had been
flattened by the Swedes and flattered by the scoreline. It might easily have
been a repeat of the six-goal drubbing received from Hungary six years
earlier. The 'dream team' pairing of Greaves and Clough rarely got out of
nightmare territory. Both were instinctive predators, and continually found
themselves being drawn to the same place. There was room for only one of them,
and it was Greaves who survived. Cloughie was thrown on the scrapheap, and it
left him embittered that he was never given another chance. At one stage he
had the embarrassment of falling and sitting on the ball close to the Swedish
goal-line. "It was as if I was trying to hatch the bloody thing," he said
later.
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Match Report
by Glen Isherwood |
Sweden had reached the World Cup final in their own country the
previous year before failing to the mighty Brazilians. They had won the
Olympic title at Wembley in 1948 and had won and drawn in their previous
two meetings with England. England started well with a neat passing
move ending with Clough crossing for John Connelly to slot home the
opener. But just after half-time a defensive error involving Charlton and
Flowers enabled Berndtsson to supply Agne Simonsson (who had scored in
the World Cup final) with a headed equaliser.
Simonsson struck again after an hour's play,
beating Hopkinson from an acute angle after Borjesson's shot was blocked.
Later Simonsson's skilful ball control killed off the home side as he sent
Bengt Salomonsson away to score the third. Bobby Charlton scored from a
pass by Greaves but England had suffered their second defeat at Wembley by
a
continental side. Sweden, surprisingly, failed to qualify for the 1962
World Cup, losing a play-off to Switzerland in Berlin. England gained
their revenge with a 2-1 win in Gothenburg in 1965 and Sweden were back at
Wembley in 1968.
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Match Report
as appears in the F.A. Yearbook 1960-61 page 34 |
The visit by Sweden, the last World
Cup runners-up, was reckoned to be a vital test. The form shown against
Wales ten days earlier encouraged the selectors not to make any changes,
an Haynes, who had missed the Welsh match through injury, was again
omitted. The game, however, was disappointing and England suffered her
second home defeat, though Connelly gave us an early lead by completing a
move started by Greaves and Clough. Just on halftime Clough missed from
close range, the ball jamming against the post. Sweden's first goal came
in the 52nd minute, when a bad back-pass by Charlton went to right-winger
Berndtsson, whose centre was neatly headed past Hopkinson by Simonsson.
Five minutes later the same two players combined for Simonsson to circle
two defenders and score with a fine shot through a narrow gap. At this
point Clough again figured in a near miss, heading against the bar, after
a pleasing movement with Greaves and Connelly. Sweden then made it three,
Salomonsson netting from 12 yds, after a swift cross from the right wing.
With nine minutes to go Charlton scored England's second, but that was
all. Sweden had won a worth victory, one which left England with many
problems.
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Football
League Division Three:
Wrexham 2 Chesterfield 3
Racecourse
Ground, Wrexham
(6,694)
Metcalf
(2)
~ Bottom, Rackstraw, Lewis |
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Following ten consecutive away defeats, Chesterfield
managed to complete the double over Wrexham for their first
away win since February. Both sides were in the bottom four,
but only Wrexham would drop into the fourth division for the
first time, Chesterfield following them, a year later.
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Football
League Division Four:
Crystal
Palace 1 Millwall 2
Selhurst
Park, South Norwood
(28,929)
Easton
~ Broadfoot, Wilson |
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Millwall safely negotiated the
London derby and remained the only league club still unbeaten, though
they had drawn more games than they had won. They ended the season
with one more win than their draws total, but missed out on promotion
by one place.
Division Four Top Five |
Team |
P |
Home |
Away |
F |
A |
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W |
D |
L |
W |
D |
L |
Walsall |
17 |
7 |
1 |
2 |
6 |
1 |
0 |
42 |
19 |
28 |
Millwall |
18 |
5 |
4 |
0 |
3 |
6 |
0 |
34 |
17 |
26 |
Torquay United |
17 |
6 |
1 |
1 |
6 |
0 |
3 |
35 |
18 |
25 |
Notts County |
18 |
9 |
0 |
1 |
2 |
2 |
4 |
39 |
20 |
24 |
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Carlisle United |
18 |
6 |
2 |
1 |
4 |
2 |
3 |
26 |
22 |
24 |
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Friendly matches:
Aston Villa
5 Raith Rovers 1
Villa Park, Birmingham
(25,000)
McParland, Price (2), Crowe,
MacEwan
~ McKinven
Liverpool 0 Everton
2
Anfield, Liverpool
(20,408)
Twentyman
OG,
J.Harris
York City 2 Newcastle United 8
Bootham Crescent, York
(9,414)
Addison, Paterson ~
Eastham, Allchurch
(2), White
(3), Mitchell, Gilfillan |
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In
Other News....
It was on 28 October 1959
that twenty-year-old Reg Smith announced his engagement to
18-year-old Joyce Baker from singing group, the Vernons
Girls. This would disappoint thousands of Smith's female
fans, for as Marty Wilde he had recorded three top-ten
singles in 1959, including 'A Teenager in Love',
transforming him into a big rock-and-roll star. Two years
later, their daughter was born and followed in her father's
footsteps in 1981, as Kim Wilde, with a string of her own
top-ten hits, beginning with 'Kids in America', written by
her father, and her younger brother, Ricky. Marty's talents
as singer and songwriter have given him the unique
distinction of appearing in the United Kingdom Singles or
Album Charts in each of the eight decades of the charts'
existence. |
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Source
Notes |
TheFA.com Svenskfotboll.se
Original newspaper reports Official Matchday
Programme |
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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
YouTube
(Swedish) |
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