F.A. secretary Sir Stanley Rous and Joe Richards, president of the Football League, bade goodbye to England's team in Luxembourg early this morning—and set off on an eight hour train journey to Zurich to attend secret talks on the possible formation of a summer Super League.
The new League is the brainchild of Karl Rappan, Switzerland's national coach. His plan, backed by the Swiss F.A. is to run a knock-out competition with six clubs from 10 European countries.     

ENGLAND took the field in Luxembourg eager to make a winning start to their World Cup group matches. A place in the finals in Chile in 1962 was up for grabs and nothing short of a win would do. Some British soldiers had come down on leave from Brussels, so the team did not lack vociferous support. What followed was a simple, devastating and thoroughly professional job. The television coverage and the weakness of the home nation kept the crowd down to only less than 7,000, who were soon witnessing a goal.

As early as the third minute, Johnny Haynes, masterful throughout, split the defence with a superb long through pass. Jimmy Greaves got a touch and then, as the ball ran loose, in came Bobby Charlton to hit a fierce left-foot shot inside the far post with his first touch of the game.

Four minutes later, his third touch brought the second England goal. It was probably the best of the match and followed a scintillating move involving Haynes, Bobby Smith, Greaves and Brian Douglas. When Douglas' centre came over, there was Charlton leaping to head home.

Play continued to flow only one way and poor Luxembourg hardly managed a touch. After 15 minutes it was 3-0. Haynes was again was the architect and, not for the last time, he cleverly switched the direction of play to set up Greaves, who hit a shot in off the underside of the bewildered Stendebach's crossbar. Smith was the next player to get in on the scoring act. Twenty-two minutes had elapsed when Greaves and Charlton combined on the left before Smith headed in Charlton's centre.

For a while England became over-eager in attack as players queued up to have a pot at the beleaguered Stendebach's goal. Too often they wanted to take the ball that one yard too many and chances were lost. However, it was obviously noticed as after the half-time break the forwards self-control returned.

Within seconds of the restart, Greaves beat three men in a lightning dash before giving Smith the chance to hit a rocket of a shot past Stendebach. Skipper Haynes was the next to score, picking his spot after a fine move by Ron Flowers and Charlton.

Charlton was continually catching the eye and he hit a peach of a goal for number seven. Jimmy Armfield hit a cross-field  pass to the Manchester United ace, who gratefully glided through on the left before hitting a screamer with his right foot which swerved into the top corner.

The almost telepathic combination of Haynes and Greaves produced both of the last two goals, with Greaves twice darting through on to long passes to score.

For Luxembourg there was little consolation, although for a while Brenner had to switch to the right wing because of injury. Even when he returned, the pressure on him and Hoffmann was unrelenting with this rampant England display.
     

Jimmy Greaves and Bobby Charlton helped themselves to hat-tricks in this World Cup qualifying match against outclassed Luxemburg. Bobby Smith notched two, but the goal of the game was a thundering shot from skipper Johnny Haynes. Walter Winterbottom announced that he had got the selectors to agree that they should make as few changes as possible as he put his faith in a settled team on the way to the 1962 World Cup finals in Chile.
  

In their first attempt to win a place in the Final rounds of the World Cup, England travelled to Luxembourg on October 19th with the same team which had shown great improvement against the Irish. Although Luxembourg's chances of success were very slight, it was recalled that the England Amateur team which played there some two years previously, but lost 3-1 and strict pre-match training was carried out. England won very easily, the goals being scored at regular intervals by Greaves (3), Charlton (3), Smith (2), and Haynes.