Monday 30 March 2015

TIME FOR A QUICKIE?

When Harry Kane came on to the sacred turf on Friday, we all knew what was going to happen. Within 78 seconds or it may have been 80, so say, he nestled on the back post, allowed the hapless Lithuanian defender time to ball watch and Sterling deliver a sumptuous cross for our old fashioned centre forward to head down and in to the goal. A better goalkeeper might have saved it. Gordon Banks would have done and probably popped it over the bar rather than to the side.
Bill Nicholson, who later became Spurs manager, scored an English international goal in 19 seconds against a Portugal team in 1951 that probably hadn't got itself sorted out.

John Cock, knocked one in, so to speak, for England in 30 seconds in a Victory International against Ireland in 1919. Cock was the first Cornishman to represent England and he played at Huddersfield, Brentford as a guest in the war years, and for Chelsea in his prime, being bought by the Blues for £2500, a record at the time. He ended up at Millwall, playing 115 games for 77 goals. His career wound up with minor teams but he played on, was an actor being described a good looking with a tenor voice, so he performed in films also, such as “The Winning Goal” in 1920.
Cock later ran a pub in New Cross and died in April 1966, before he could see England win the World Cup.


The fastest England sub's goal was from Teddy Sheringham in 15 seconds, coming on against Greece in a 2-2 draw in 2001 in a World Cup qualifier and Bryan Robson only took 38 seconds to score the quickest World Cup goal at Wembley against Yugoslavia in December 1989.
Tommy Lawton, from the kick off brought the Portuguese back to the centre spot after only 17 seconds in 1947, the goal was he first of 10!

Wayne Rooney scored his 47th international goal on Friday and he was the youngest English player to score in a European Championship qualifier at 17 years and 317 days on 6th September 2003, putting Macedonia to the sword. He made it a double youngest award when he scored in the European Championship Finals in 17th June 2004 in a 3-0 win over Switzerland (you can work out how old he was).

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