1950 FA Charity Shield

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1950 FA Charity Shield
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The match programme cover
Event FA Charity Shield
Date20 September 1950
Venue Stamford Bridge, London
Referee Arthur Ellis
Attendance38,468
1949
1951

The 1950 FA Charity Shield was the 28th FA Charity Shield, an early season exhibition football match hosted by The Football Association. The 1950 match was held between the England squad that had competed at the 1950 World Cup, and the squad that had participated in an exhibition tour of Canada in the same summer. [1] While in its early years the format of the Charity Shield had varied, by 1950 the match was an unusual variation from the normal game between the league champion and the FA Cup winner.

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Venue

Fulham
Stamford Bridge
Capacity: 38,500
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Overview

England had entered the FIFA World Cup for the first time in 1950, having previously missed the tournament due to the FA (and other Home Nations football associations) boycott of FIFA. [2] The tournament had gone badly, with an under-prepared England team eliminated in the first round, including suffering from a 1–0 defeat to the United States, whose team was largely made up of amateurs. [3] The decision to send a team on a goodwill tour — a fairly common practice by the FA at the time [4] — to Canada at the same time as the World Cup is now seen as evidence of this poor preparation, with key players such as Stanley Matthews and Nat Lofthouse unavailable for all or part of the World Cup due to their selection for the tour. [5] This was the last time to date that the Charity Shield was held between two FA teams (in 1913, 1923–26 and 1929 it had been between an England Professional XI and the England amateur team), though an FA XI would later compete in the 1961 FA Charity Shield against the double-winning Tottenham Hotspur team.

The match itself finished 4–2 to the World Cup squad. Matthews, who had been part of both squads, played for the Touring XI. [6] Liverpool F.C. defender Laurie Hughes was badly injured in the match, and never played for England again. He remained at Liverpool for the rest of his career, but the injury is seen as having prevented him from fulfilling his potential. [7]

Match details

England World Cup XI 4–2 F.A. Canadian Touring Team
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Stamford Bridge, London
Attendance: 38,468
Referee: Arthur Ellis
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England World Cup XI
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F.A. Canadian Touring Team
1 Flag of England.svg Ernest Butler
2 Flag of England.svg Alf Ramsey
3 Flag of England.svg Bill Eckersley
4 Flag of England.svg Billy Wright (c)
5 Flag of England.svg Laurie Hughes Sub off.svg
6 Flag of England.svg Jimmy Dickinson
7 Flag of England.svg Tom Finney
8 Flag of England.svg Wilf Mannion
9 Flag of England.svg Stan Mortensen
10 Flag of England.svg Eddie Baily
11 Flag of England.svg Jimmy Mullen
Substitutes:
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Manager:
Flag of England.svg Walter Winterbottom
1 Flag of England.svg Stan Hanson
2 Flag of England.svg Bert Mozley
3 Flag of England.svg Stan Milburn
4 Flag of England.svg Harry Johnston
5 Flag of England.svg Reg Flewin (c)
6 Flag of England.svg Tim Ward
7 Flag of England.svg Stanley Matthews
8 Flag of England.svg Jackie Sewell
9 Flag of England.svg Nat Lofthouse
10 Flag of England.svg Jimmy Hagan
11 Flag of England.svg Johnny Hancocks
Manager:
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Match officials
  • Assistant referees:
    • R.J. Leafe
    • B.M. Griffiths

References

  1. Sewell, Albert. "Ask Albert - Number 39". BBC Sport. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  2. "World Cup: US v England match recalls 1950 upset". BBC News. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  3. Douglas, Geoffrey (2005). The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset . Harper. ISBN   0060758775.
  4. "British FA XI Tours". Rssf. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  5. Liew, Jonathan. "England at the World Cup: Dirt, drama and defeat in 1950". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  6. "1950/51 Charity Shield". Football Site. Retrieved 15 January 2016.
  7. Glanville, Barry. "Laurie Hughes obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 15 January 2016.