Notes
The six British [Home
International] Championship matches for 1949-50 and 1953-54 doubled as
qualifying matches for the World Cup final tournaments of 1950 and 1954. The
six British Championship matches for 1966-67 and 1967-68 also served as
qualifying matches for the European Championship final tournament of 1968. The
numbers for 12 British Championship matches are thus duplicated within the
World Cup and European Championship numbers. For that reason,
addition of the home and away column numbers in the tables results in double
counting of these 12 matches and produces sums that are greater than the
actual overall numbers.
The friendly away match of 15 February 1995
against the
Republic of Ireland,
abandoned after 27 minutes because of crowd violence with the Republic leading 1-0, did not
produce an
official result. The Football Association's official website does
not mention the match in its matches list although caps were awarded to England's
players. We have chosen to record it in our matches list because
caps were awarded,
but since no official result was reached, we have ignored it in our team
record computations.
The friendly away match of 17 May
1953 against Argentina, abandoned midway through the first half because of
torrential rain with both teams scoreless, is treated differently. Although the teams played for only
21 minutes, the football
associations of England and Argentina agreed the match would stand as a
scoreless draw. Since the Football Association records list the 1953 Argentina match as a draw, we have bowed to their official status although we believe it would have been more accurate to record it for what
it was, an abandonment. Accordingly, we have recorded the match as a scoreless
draw and counted it in computing
the failure to score, clean sheet, goals for and against averages and
points percentage columns.
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