The England Intermediate Summer Party-Pre West Germany  May 1959
Player	Birthdate	Age	Pos	Club	starts	subs	App		Capt
Allen, Anthony	27 November 1939	19	LB	Stoke City FC	4	0	4	0	0
Angus, John	2 September 1938	20	RB	Burnley FC	0	0	0	0	0
Armfield, James	21 September 1935	23	RB	Blackpool FC	6	0	6	0	4
	Armfield is unavailable for the match against West Germany, he is now part of the Senior party.
Brabrook, Peter	8 November 1937	21	OR	Chelsea FC	6	0	6	1	0
Connelly, John M.	18 July 1938	20	OR	Burnley FC	0	0	0	0	0
Dobing, Peter A.	1 December 1938	20	IF	Blackburn Rovers FC	0	0	0	0	0
Greaves, James P.	20 February 1940	19	IR	Chelsea FC	8	0	8	7	0
	Greaves is unavailable for the match against West Germany, he is now part of the Senior party.
Kay, Anthony H.	13 May 1937	21	LHB	Sheffield Wednesday FC	1	0	1	0	0
Macedo, Eliot	22 February 1938 in Gibraltar	21	GK	Fulham FC	1	0	1	0ᵍᵃ	0
Pacey, David	2 October 1936	22	LHB	Luton Town FC	0	0	0	0	0
Parry, Raymond A.	19 January 1936	23	IL	Bolton Wanderers FC	3	0	3	1	0
Pointer, Raymond	10 October 1936	22	CF	Burnley FC	1	0	1	2	0
Robson, James	23 January 1939	20	IL	Burnley FC	0	0	0	0	0
Scanlon, Albert J.	10 October 1935	23	OL	Manchester United FC	4	0	4	0	0
Setters, Maurice E.	16 December 1936	22	RHB	West Bromwich Albion FC	8	0	8	0	0
Smith, Trevor	13 April 1936	23	CHB	Birmingham City FC	12	0	12	0	2
Wakeham, Peter F.	14 March 1936	23	GK	Sunderland AFC	0	0	0	0ᵍᵃ	0

All information is complete to and including England's sixteenth intermediate match, against Italy on 7 May 1959.

Diary

Monday, 20 April 1959 - The England selectors, as well as naming the Senior team and tour party, have named the under-23 side that will face the Senior team on 1 May and who will participate with the Intermediate side on their tour of Italy and West Germany. 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

Tuesday, 5 May 1959 - Instead of training with the Young England team, Fulham goalkeeper, Tony Macedo, was in hospital. He received two penicillin injections for two painful boils in the hope that the treatment will clear up the trouble and enable hi to earn his first representative honour. All other members of the team are fit.

Wednesday, 6 May 1959 - This morning, all eleven starting players and six reserves left London Airport for Milan.

Thursday, 7 May 1959 - Young Italy 0 Young England 3:- "Young England showed 80,000 Italians here that Englishmen really can play power-football. So complete was their mastery that it could easily have been a six-goal walloping. They set about their task with such determination that long before the end of the fiercely partisan crowd acknowledged their domination. When the Italians came out for the second half, two goals down, the crowd yelled 'Bidoni, Bidon' (dustbins!), whistled and hurled cushions at the players. Only a handful of English officials and 200 British sailors from H M S Thorn, who had journeyed from Trieste armed with a klaxon, enjoyed this prestige moment of solidarity in defence and skilful, hard-hitting penetration in an imaginative attack. The swift tackling, dominant half-back line of Maurice Setters, Trevor Smith and Tony Kay gave England confidence in defence. The deadly flashing feet of inside left Ray Parry, the wing surge of Peter Brabrook and Albert Scanlon, supporting ever-trying leader Ray Pointer, gave us sparkling superiority in attack. Skipper Jimmy Armfield edged about inside right Jimmy Greaves in the race to get into the England team for Rio. In 24 minutes centre-half Vasco Tagliavini sliced his kick to Parry, who picked his spot and fired in a snorting left-footer. Five minutes later Parry hit a goalpost and Pointer scored from the rebound. The crowd's whistling reached its height 11 minutes after half-time. Trevor Smith stopped an attack and from well inside his own half set off to beat man after man before tapping the ball to Pointer for an easy goal." - Peter Lorenzo, Daily Herald

Friday, 8 May 1959 - As Jimmy's Armfield and Greaves and manager Walter Winterbottom return to England, after catching a night train between Milan and Zürich, to join the senior party, the remaining fifteen players, and Ron Greenwood, 'who is here on his first international executive assignment,' traveled north to Bochum, near Düsseldorf. The team were cheered by the Milan hotel staff, and clapped by workmen along the coach route to the airport. After a smooth 500-mile air journey, the party, on board their coaches, were lost for 70 minutes before finding their hotel, despite two German FA officials on board.
Trevor Smith is almost certain to miss the match after injuring his right ankle against Italy. Ray Pointer has also damaged an ankle. Peter Dobing is also a doubtful starter because of a throat infection. Dave Pacey will likely replace Smith as centre-half whereas Maurice Setters will take over as captain. John Angus will replace Armfield.

England Form: last six games
W L W W D W  f 15:a 5  success: 75%
11	15 January 1958 - England 3 Scotland 1 [2-1] Goodison Park, Liverpool (19,327)	Murray, Greaves, Hayes Young	Fr	HW
12	23 April 1958 - Wales 2 England 1 [1-0] The Racecourse Ground, Wrexham (13,000/20,000)	Leek, Orritt Clough		AL
13	24 September 1958 - England 4 Poland 1 [4-1] Hillsborough, Sheffield (38,525)	Charlton (3 (1 pen)), Greaves Gadecki		HW
14	15 October 1958 - England 3 Czechoslovakia 0 [2-0] Carrow Road, Norwich (38,000)	Charlton (2), Greaves		HW
15	18 March 1959 - France 1 England 1 [1-0] Stade de Gerland, Lyon (12,000)	Cossou Murray		AD
16	7 May 1959 - Italy 0 England 3 [0-2] San Siro, Milan (70,000-80,000)	Parry, Pointer (2)		AW