Match Report

STOCKHOLM, MAY 17.--Playing with the same determination that marked their match against Norway, England revelled in the mud at the Raasunda Stadium and beat Sweden by four goals to none here to-day.

Although Steele, Stoke's centre forward, scored three goals, the real hero of the match from the crowd's point of view was G. Sjoberg, the goalkeeper, who was making his first appearance for his country...

Johnson, the other scorer, did not have a good match...

The KIng of Sweden, who came back specially from Copenhagen to open the new Rassunda Stadium congratulated both teams on the fine sporting spirit in which the game was played.

The referee, M. John Langenus, of Belgium, who has refereed international matches in England, had a simple task.--Reuter. - The Times - Tuesday 18th May, 1937

SCANDINAVIAN TOUR

F.A. Players Numbered in Matches

   Only a few friends and relations saw the departure yesterday [11 May] of the London group of the F.A. team to tour Scandinavia. Among those accompanying the party were Mr. [Stanley] F. Rous, secretary of the F.A.; Mr. [Henry] J. Huband, the treasurer; and Mr. George Allison, manager of Arsenal. The rest of the team joined their colleagues in the North.
   Mr. [Stanley] F. Rous said, "All the players are fit and well and looking forward keenly to the trip. In all matches the players will be numbered." - Yorkshire Post, Wednesday, 12 May 1937

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 16 May 1937 that a 29-year-old widow, born and raised in Italy, Laetitia Toureaux, mysteriously became the first person to die on the Paris Métro underground service. She was stabbed in the neck and found alone in a first-class carriage. The murderer would have had less than a minute to commit the crime between stations and disappear, the carriages had windows all around and only the staff had keys to pass between carriages. Nobody had seen anyone else in that carriage. When it was revealed that she had worked as a spy and had links to a far-right organisation, it was thought that it may have been an assassination, but in 1962, a doctor anonymously confessed to the crime in great detail in a letter to police. He had been in a relationship with the woman and when she told him that she would see another man, he secretly followed her into the carriage, stabbing her, and then stepping off the train and back onto it in a second-class carriage. His identity was never discovered and he almost certainly got away with the perfect crime.