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448 Squad vs. West Germany
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450 Squad vs.
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Wednesday, 25 November 1970
International Friendly Match

England 3 GDR (East Germany) 1 [2-1]

Match Summary
England Squad
GDR Squad

Team Records
   
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The Three Lions squad for the match against GDR  November 1970
Player Birthdate Age Pos Club St Sub App G Capt
Ball, Alan 12 May 1945 - M/F Everton FC - - 45 7 - -
Bell, Colin - - F Manchester City FC - - - - - -
Clarke, Allan J. 31 July 1946 - F Leeds United AFC - - 1 1 - -
Clemence, Raymond N. 5 August 1948 22 G Liverpool FC 0 0 0 0 0 None
Cooper, Terence 12 July 1944 - FB Leeds United AFC - - 12 0 - -
Hollins, John - 24 M Chelsea FC - - 1 0 - -
Hughes, Emlyn W. 28 August 1947 23 FB/M Liverpool FC - - 6 0 - -
Hunter, Norman - - M Leeds United AFC - - - - - -
Hurst, Geoffrey C. 8 December 1941 - F West Ham United FC - - 41 21 - -
Kidd, Brian - 21 F Manchester United FC - - 2 0 - -
Lee, Francis H. 29 April 1944 - F Manchester City FC - - 17 6 - -
McFarland, Roy - 22 M Derby County FC 0 0 0 0 0 None
Moore, Robert F.C. 12 April 1941 - CD/M West Ham United FC - - 84 2 66 -
Mullery, Alan P. 23 November 1941 - M Tottenham Hotspur FC - - 31 1 - -
Osgood, Peter - - F - - - - - - -
Peters, Martin S. 8 November 1943 - M/F Tottenham Hotspur FC - - 42 15 - -
Reaney, Paul - 26 D Leeds United AFC - - 2 0 - -
Royle, Joseph - 21 F Everton FC 0 0 0 0 0 None
Sadler, David 5 February 1946 24 D/M Manchester United FC - - 3 0 - -
Shilton, Peter 18 September 1949 21 G Leicester City FC 0 0 0 0 GA 0 None
Thompson, Peter - 27 F Liverpool FC - - 16 - - -
Wright, Tommy - - D Everton FC - - - - - -

All information is complete to and including England's last match, the thirteenth of the 1969-70 season, against West Germany on 14 June 1970.

Diary

Monday, 16 November 1970 - With one eye on the URBSFA/KBVB Championnat d'Europe de Football Coupe Henri Delauney qualifying campaign, which was to get underway in little more than two months and for which this friendly against East Germany was the only preparatory match, and the other on rebuilding the team for World Cup 1974, Alf Ramsey named a 22-man squad on 16 November 1970.  
It was England's first match since the quarterfinal loss to West Germany at the World Cup finals in Mexico five months earlier, and there were several cuts from the World Cup squad.   Bobby Charlton was dropped; England's exit from the World Cup marked his last appearance for the national side.  Gordon Banks, Peter Bonetti, Jack Charlton and Brian Labone, who had lost his first-team place with Everton, were also dropped.  Others may have been dropped, too, but we do not yet have the details.  We know only one of the 11 squad members who did not play in the match, Ray Clemence. 

David Sadler, one of the late cuts before the World Cup squad was finalised, was given a recall.  Newcomers Peter Shilton and Ray Clemence were also given calls.  

England Form: last six games
W W W L W L  f 10 :a 3   success: 67%
443 20 May 1970 - Colombia 0 England 4 [0-2]
Estadio Nemesio Camacho, Bogotá (35,000)
Peters (2), R.Charlton, Ball Fr AW
444 24 May 1970 - Ecuador 0 England 2 [0-1]
Estadio Olímpico Atahualpa, Quito (29,706)
Lee, Kidd AW
445 2 June 1970 - England 1 Romania 0 [0-0]
Estádio Jalisco, Guadalajara (50,560)
Hurst WCF NW
446 7 June 1970 - Brazil 1 England 0 [0-0]
Estádio Jalisco, Guadalajara (70,950)
Jairzinho NL
447 11 June 1970 - Czechoslovakia 0 England 1 [0-0]
Estádio Jalisco, Guadalajara (49,292)
Clarke (pen) NW
448 14 June 1970 - West Germany 3 England 2 [0-1]
AET [2-2]
Estadio de Guanajuato, León (23,357)
Beckenbauer, Seeler, Müller
Mullery, Peters
NL
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