AN ANNIVERSARY OF ALL THE SEVENS

Its only 50 years ago! April 15th 1967 when Scotland came to Wembley and beat the World Champions, England, 3-2 in front of a 99,063 crowd. The England team was very much the 1966 WCup team with Greaves in for Hunt. This was an UEFA Championship qualifier. Later in 1968 England drew 1-1 in Scotland, but qualified for the finals.

This clip of 11 minutes or so celebrates one of the great "mavericks", Slim Jim Baxter, who seemed to run this game (if you follow the number of touches he had in this series of clips). A heat map (had they been inv ented at the time) would show Baxter picking the ball up in almost always the same place on the pitch, loads of space and on his left foot. Does he actually use his right foot at all?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJMtw3J8VoM
If you do nothing else, look at the last minutes where Jim decides that the English marking was so poor, he could play a bit of keepie up before hooking a pass on to Dennis Law which resulted in a Scottish goal.

BUT the 1967 side included Jack Charlton playing with a broken toe and since there were no substitutes allowed Jack went up front and scored! Ray Wilson was also injured and Greaves was injured too but there was no excuse for the rest of the team not getting anywhere near Jim. Hurst scored our second. Law, Lennox and McCalliog scored for Scotland.

This next clip is not an exact anniversary of the 1977 match at Wembley (it was played on June 4th and 98.103 saw it) but the match played 10 years later had a significant effect on English football! and the Wembley goalposts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGLrfSn4dvc

Overall results England win 48, Scotland 41. Drawn 24=113:
There was a 0-0 in 1987, in 1957 Scotland won 1-2,
On April 12th 1947, the two teams met for the first official time post War a 1-1 draw at Wembley.
In 1937 England won 3-1, 1927 Scotland won 2-1, 1907 1-1, 1897 England 2-1, 1887 England 3-2, 1877 England 3-1.