Wrong and dangerous: England vs Scotland, April '67
For now, to Wolstenholme, Jack Charlton was "That brave, limping, England hero," but England were still 2-1 down with less than five minutes left.
Full game footage of Don Revie's Leeds United is rare, unless you want to watch us losing lots of cup finals. But international matches were broadcast more often, and as every player in Revie's team was an international, they're a good place to look to spot a star or two.
At Wembley in April 1967 Jack Charlton lined up for one side and Billy Bremner for the other: the world champions, unbeaten in nineteen, against Scotland. The match would decide the Home Championship, and counted towards qualification for the European Championships.
Even without the stakes it was a big game for bragging rights, the 100,000 crowd including 40,000 from Scotland come ready to brag. Their mood was mixed: determined to loosen the English grip on the Jules Rimet trophy, but fearful of playing an eleven that was almost unchanged from the previous summer's tournament. In his first game as manager Bobby Brown was giving Celtic's goalkeeper his first game for Scotland; Ronnie Simpson was 36, and last time Scotland faced England at Wembley with a Celtic keeper in goal, they lost 9-3. That happened in 1961; the papers feared Simpson was a bad omen, the players just wanted revenge.
Denis Law had played in that game, and the Manchester United player is one of the 'anglos' who have endured the fate of a Scot in an English dressing room after July 1966. When his desperation to win spills over into a furious row with the officials about an offside call, England's Bobby Moore doesn't help with his bemused laughter. There is some collegiate spirit; when the unpredictable West German referee blows his whistle, Law and his clubmate Nobby Stiles look at each other shrugging: they'd been enjoying the tussle, and now waited to see which way a foul had been given and why. Then again, Law did firmly volley a dead ball into the scrum of presumably English photographers behind the goal in the first half, when he also gave Scotland the lead, finishing a rebound after Willie Wallace's shot is blocked.