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Saturday, 27 May 1972
Home International Championship 1971-72 (77th) Match

Scotland 0 England 1 [0-1]
 

 

Match Summary
Scotland Squad
England Squad

Hampden Park, Kinghorn Drive, Mount Florida, Glasgow, Lanarkshire
Attendance: 119,325/415;
Kick-off: tbc BST
Live on BBC (UK) - Commentator: Barry Davies. Also live on ITV (UK) - Commentators: Brian Moore and Jimmy Hill

England - Alan Ball (28)
 
Results 1970-1975

? kicked-off. ? minutes (? & ?).

 

Match Summary

Officials

Scotland

Type

England

Referee (-) - Serpio Gonella
x (-).

Linesmen - tbc

  Goal Attempts  
  Attempts on Target  
  Hit Bar/Post  
  Corner Kicks Won  
  Offside Calls Against  
  Fouls Conceded  
  Possession  

Scotland Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 22nd to 26th
Colours: Made by Umbro - blue collared jerseys with white collars/cuffs, white shorts, blue socks with red tops. 
Capt: Billy McNeill Manager: Tommy Docherty
Scotland Lineup
  Clark, Robert B. 26 26 September 1945 G     GA
2 Brownlie, John 20 11 March 1952 RB      
3 Donachie, William, off 74th min. 21 5 October 1951 LB      
4 McNeill, William 32 2 March 1940 RHB The Celtic FC 29 3
5 Moncur, Robert 27 19 January 1945 CHB      
6 Bremner, William J. 29 9 December 1942 ? Leeds United AFC, England 31 2
7 Lorimer, Peter P. 25 14 December 1946        
8 Law, Denis 32 24 February 1940 IR Manchester United FC, England 46 30
9 Macari, Luigi 22 7 June 1949 CF      
10 Hartford, R. Asa 21 24 October 1950 IL      
11 Gemmill, Archibald, off 50th min. 25 24 March 1947 OL      
Scotland Substitutes
  Johnstone, James C., on 50th min. for Gemmill 27 30 September 1944   The Celtic FC 17 3
  Green, Anthony, on 74th min. for Donachie 25 30 October 1946        

unused substitutes:

-
 
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Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

England Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking;
EFO ranking

ELO rating 3rd
Colours: The 1965 Umbro home uniform - White crew necked jerseys, blue shorts, white socks.
Capt: Bobby Moore, 78th captaincy Manager: Sir Alfred Ernest Ramsey, 52 (22 January 1920), appointed 25 October 1962, effective part-time 31 December, full from May 1963.
98th match, W 62 - D 22 - L 14 - F 199 - A 87.
England Lineup
1 Banks, Gordon 34
149 days
30 December 1937 G Stoke City FC 73 57ᵍᵃ
final app 1963-72
2 Madeley, Paul 27   RB Leeds United AFC 8 0
3 Hughes, Emlyn 24   LB Liverpool FC 18 1
3 Storey, Peter E. 26 7 September 1945 RHB Arsenal FC 8 0
5 McFarland, Roy L. 24 5 April 1948 CHB Derby County FC 10 0
6 Moore, Robert F.C. 31 12 April 1941 LHB West Ham United FC 96 2
7 Ball, Alan J. 27
15 days
12 May 1945 OR Arsenal FC 56 8
8 Bell, Colin 26 26 February 1946 IR Manchester City FC 20 3
9 Chivers, Martin H. 27 27 April 1945 CF Tottenham Hotspur FC 11 7
10 Marsh, Rodney W., off 84th min. 27 11 October 1944 IL Manchester City FC 6 1
11 Hunter, Norman 28   OL Leeds United AFC 20 1
England Substitutes
  Macdonald, Malcolm I., on 84th min. for Marsh 22 7 January 1950 CF Newcastle United FC 3 2 0
1

unused substitutes:

-

team notes:

Manager Alf Ramsey played against Scotland in four matches from 1950 until 1953.
 
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Averages:

Age - Appearances/Goals - -

 

    Match Report by Mike Payne

 

    Match Report by Norman Giller

The referee called captains Bobby Moore and Billy McNeill together and ordered them to tell their players to calm things down after forty-six free-kicks had been awarded in the first thirty minutes. An Alan Ball goal in the twenty-eighth minute gave England victory in this daggers-drawn centenary match between the two countries. Peter Storey and Norman Hunter were at the heart of the trouble with their fierce tackling, and this brought out the competitive spirit in the  likes of Billy Bremner, Bobby Moncur and Denis Law. For long spells players seemed more intent on kicking each other rather than the ball.  Scottish FA President Hugh Nelson described the game as 'a disgrace,' and made no secret of the fact that he thought England had started it with their retaliate-first approach. Veteran onlookers could not recall a more vićious encounter between the auld enemy, and football was the loser.

Source Notes

TheFA.com
Original newspaper reports
Rothman's Yearbooks
Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record (Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller
, Football Author

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CG