With players like Keith Newton and Norman Hunter in his side, it was Nobby Stiles who scored the only goal of the game, as the home team won by the one and only goal. It was the ONLY GOAL Nobby scored for England in 28 appearances. Alf brought Nobby in to "do a job"!
The team: Banks, Cohen, Newton (Wilson), Moore, Charlton J and R, Hunter, Ball, Hunt, Stiles, Hurst.
75,000 saw the win.
Another warm up game was at Goodison Park against Poland which was drawn 1-1 with Bobby Moore scoring the goal. George Eastham and Joe Baker were also used.
From April, England played Scotland at Hampden Park winning 4-3 and in May, on tour, they met Yugoslavia 2-0, Finland 3-0, Norway 6-1, Denmark 2-0, and Poland again 1-0.
Jimmy Greaves scored 4 against Norway and this was his sixth 3 or more tally in one match for England. He played 57 times for his country and scored 44 goals.
He never made the World Cup campaign's final three teams, however, having drawn blanks in the three qualifying matches against Uruguay 0-0, Mexico 2-0 and France 2-0.
From the World Cup quarter-final, Ramsey picked the same 11 players in six consecutive matches and Jimmy just didn't fit into the jig-saw puzzle.
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