The England Summer Party-Pre Italy  May 1959
Player	Birthdate	Age	Pos	Club	starts	subs	App		Capt
Armfield, James	21 September 1935	23	RB	Blackpool FC	0	0	0	0	0
	Armfield is unavailable for the match against Italy, he is part of the Intermediate party.
Baynham, Ronald L.	10 June 1929	29	GK	Luton Town FC	3	0	3	2ᵍᵃ	0
Bradley, Warren	20 June 1933	25	OR	Manchester United FC	0	0	0	0	0
Broadbent, Peter F.	15 May 1933	25	IR	Wolverhampton Wanderers FC	4	0	4	2	0
Charlton, Robert	11 October 1937	21	CF	Manchester United FC	7	0	7	7	0
Clayton, Ronald	5 August 1934	24	RHB	Blackburn Rovers FC	25	0	25	0	0
Deeley, Norman V.	30 November 1933	25	LHB	Wolverhampton Wanderers FC	0	0	0	0	0
Flowers, Ronald	28 July 1934	24	LHB	Wolverhampton Wanderers FC	3	0	3	0	0
Greaves, James P.	20 February 1940	19	IR	Chelsea FC	0	0	0	0	0
	Greaves is unavailable for the match against Italy, he is part of the Intermediate party.
Gratrix, Roy	9 February 1932	27	CHB	Blackpool FC	0	0	0	0	0
Haynes, John N.	17 October 1934	24	IL	Fulham FC	27	0	27	12	0
Holden, A. Douglas	28 September 1930	28	OL	Bolton Wanderers FC	1	0	1	0	0
Hopkinson, Edward	29 October 1935	23	GK	Bolton Wanderers FC	7	0	7	9ᵍᵃ	0
Howe, Donald	12 October 1935	23	FB	West Bromwich Albion FC	15	0	15	0	0
Kevan, Derek T.	6 March 1935	24	CF	West Bromwich Albion FC	11	0	11	6	0
McGuinness, Wilfred	25 October 1937	21	LHB	Manchester United FC	1	0	1	0	0
Shaw, Graham L.	9 July 1934	24	LB	Sheffield United FC	3	0	3	0	0
Wright, William A.	6 February 1924	35	CHB	Wolverhampton Wanderers FC	100	0	100	3	85

All information is complete to and including England's last match, the fourth of the 1958-59 season, against Scotland on 11 April 1959.

Diary

Monday, 20 April 1959 - England selectors showed their satisfaction with the team that beat Scotland at Wembley by making just one enforced changed because of the injury to Bryan Douglas, for the games against Under-23 team on 1 May at Highbury, and against Italy at Wembley five days later. The vacancy on the right wing has gone to Manchester United's Warren Bradley, who already has twelve appearances for the England Amateur team. The eleven, along with an additional seven players, will also make the trip to South America. However, there is still no recognised centre-forward, with Bobby Charlton expected to fill the role again. 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
Roy Gratrix is the reserve for England against the Young England.

England against The Press

A summer tour of South America had been both a football and PR disaster. Before it even began England had surrended a 2-0 half-time lead to draw 2-2 with Italy at Wembley and then things had gone from bad to worse. Matters weren't helped when a hitherto benevolent press turned on the players. Leading the charge was the Daily Herald's new reporter, Sam Leitch. In many ways, he could be seen as changing the entire complexion of tabloid football reporting with his forthright attacks at what he perceived to be the root of England's problems. His career began with a report on England's 2-2 draw with Italy: 'Just forty-eight hours before they fly off on their 20,000-mile tour of the Americas, England plunged into pathetic depths of tame surrender . . . the full list of England flops was headed by skipper Billy Wright whose 101st cap was his worst.' Things deteriorated from there on and Leitch was joined by others at last ready to chastise the national team. Suddenly gone, it seemed, were the days when the worst a player could get was a gentle joshing from a journalist's pen. Now newspapers were increasingly filled with the kind of invective one would formerly expect from only the most rabid fan. Expectation had not just moved up a notch, it was suddenly screaming from the back pages, particularly when it had not been lived up to.

England Expects, James Corbett, page 154

England Form: last six games
D L D W D W  f 13:a 8  success: 58%
324	15 June 1958 - England 2 Austria 2 [0-1] Ryavallen Stadion, Borås (15,872)	Haynes, Kevan Koller, Körner	WCF	ND
325	17 June 1958 - USSR 1 England 0 [0-0] Nya Ullevi Stadion, Göteborg (23,182)	Ilyin		NL
326	4 October 1958 - Northern Ireland 3 England 3 [1-1] Windsor Park, Belfast (58,000)	Cush, Peacock, Casey Charlton (2), Finney	BC	AD
327	22 October 1958 - England 5 USSR 0 [1-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley (100,000)	Haynes (3), Charlton (pen), Lofthouse	Fr	HW
328	26 November 1958 - England 2 Wales 2 [1-1] Villa Park, Birmingham (40,500)	Broadbent (2) Tapscott, Allchurch	BC	HD
329	11 April 1959 - England 1 Scotland 0 [0-0] Empire Stadium, Wembley (98,329)	Charlton		HW