It was on April 14th 1951, when I was just a few days old, two great "heavyweights" came face to face.
A few days before this event, I was born on the night of a British heavy weight boxing championship at Earls Court, broadcast on the wireless, This was between Freddie Mills and Don Cockell, who won by a technical knock out in the 6th round; my dad told me! Not mum. She was having another wrestling match.
On the football pitch, England lost to the Scots who then won the British Home Championship. It was their 68th meeting. Here is the video. Look out for silky shorts, dodgy goalkeeping (from the English as well as the Scots) and some fruity styles midst the huge crowd.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vkzp--eML04
Played at Wembley there were 98,000 watching and England fielded:
Williams, Ramsey, Eckersley, Johnston (goal), Frogatt, Wright (capt), Matthews, Mannion, Mortensen, Hassall (goal), Finney (goal). They were down to 10 men with no subs; so some excuse?
The Scots were: Cowan, Evans, Liddell(goal), Steel, Johnstone (goal), Cox, Redpath, Reilly(goal), Waddell, Woodburn, Young(capt).
There were 2 Billys, 2 Bobbys, 3 Willys, 1 Jimmy, 1 Sammy, 1 Laurie and a George.
So far there have been 48 wins for England 25 draws and 41 wins for the Scots.
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