ENGLAND were tricked by the weather here today. Victory in the "B" International was literally blown out of their grasp. When captain Joe Kennedy won the toss and decided to kick with the moderate wind at his back, he probably thought that conditions would grow no worse—and might even improve.
But the half-time blast of the referee's whistle brought another kind of blast. IT WAS A GALE STRAIGHT DOWN THE PITCH. England found themselves kicking against this tempest. To make matters worse, the sun came out and dazzled our players. England's one-goal lead, gained by precision play up to the penalty area, looked nothing like enough now. Soon Cowboy McCulloch, for fifty minutes a passenger on Scotland's left wing, got the idea. He robbed Johnny Wheeler thirty yards from goal and let fly.
   The ball rocketed down wind and into the net.
Then the Scots swarmed all over England. The match suddenly flared into a terrific struggle And when little Jimmy Mulkerrin headed another goal, a sensational result was in the making.
By this time England had only one effective forward. Bill Perry was strangely hesitant. John Atyeo was not the thundering forward he can be. Peter Broadbent had lost his first-half fire, and Alan Finney was mastered by Rae.
   That left Tommy Taylor to plough along on his own.
HE had already scored the first-half goal. Now he sought the equaliser.
HE forced Billy Brown to a fine save.
HE was tripped, but was denied a penalty.
HE missed another chance through over-kicking in his dash between the backs.
Three minutes from time Tommy tried again. He went off on a long dribble down the right. He beat Rae, then Glen Malloy dashed out to cut him off, but was left sprawling. Taylor drew the goalkeeper forward and then slipped the ball across. Atyeo had only to help himself to a goal.
   The crowd did not like some of the English tackling, and they booed Jim Langley after an incident which referee R.Reid (Ireland) dealt with quite correctly, by dropping the ball.
Langley, Kennedy and Tommy Cummings all did well, though Langley had some early trouble from Luton's Mike Cullen. Cullen, third choice winger, who was dropped by his club last week, made himself a great favourite with the crowd with his enterprising play.
CROWD DID I SAY? There were only 11,000 fans in Scotland's third biggest city who passed through the gates—the same gates which ten days ago were closed when 47,000 were inside for a Scottish Cup-tie..
 

A 12,000 rain-soaked crowd at Dundee on February [29th] saw a mediocre game in which few reputations were enhanced. After a confident England side had taken the lead through Taylor just before half-time, McCulloch equalised with a tremendous down-wind shot. Mulkerrin headed a second for Scotland and it looked as if the home side would bring off a surprise win. But Taylor's perseverance was rewarded when at last he made a perfect opening for Atyeo to score the equaliser in the closing minutes.