1950 FA Charity Shield

May 2017 May 2017 1950 FA Charity Shield 1950 charityshield programme.jpg 200 The match programme cover FA Charity Shield England World Cup XI 4 F.A. Canadian Touring Team 2 20 September 1950 Stamford Bridge London Arthur Ellis 38,468 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.Sewell Albert Ask Albert - Number 39 https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/sports_talk/1632316.stm BBC Sport 15 January 2016 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. Venue Fulham Stamford Bridge Capacity: 38,500 200px 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.World Cup: US v England match recalls 1950 upset https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10200154 BBC News 15 January 2016 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.Douglas Geoffrey The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset 2005 Harper 0060758775 registration https://archive.org/details/gameoftheirlives00geof The decision to send a team on a goodwill tour — a fairly common practice by the FA at the timeBritish FA XI Tours https://www.rsssf.org/tablesb/britishfatours.html Rssf 15 January 2016 — 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.Liew Jonathan England at the World Cup: Dirt, drama and defeat in 1950 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/england/10390871/England-at-the-World-Cup-Dirt-drama-and-defeat-in-1950.html Daily Telegraph 15 January 2016 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.1950/51 Charity Shield http://www.footballsite.co.uk/Statistics/CommunityShield/1950-51CharityShield.htm Football Site 15 January 2016 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.Glanville Barry Laurie Hughes obituary https://www.theguardian.com/football/2011/sep/16/laurie-hughes-obituary The Guardian 15 January 2016 Match details 20 September 1950 England World Cup XI 4–2 F.A. Canadian Touring Team Mannion Mortensen Baily Mullen Johnston Lofthouse Stamford Bridge, London 38,468 Arthur Ellis _eng50h _whitetop FFFFFF FFFFFF FFFFFF 000066 000066 England World Cup XI _collar ED1C24 ED1C24 ED1C24 FFFFFF ED1C24 F.A. Canadian Touring Team 1 ENG Ernest Butler 2 ENG Alf Ramsey 3 ENG Bill Eckersley 4 ENG Billy Wright (c) 5 ENG Laurie Hughes 6 ENG Jimmy Dickinson 7 ENG Tom Finney 8 ENG Wilf Mannion 9 ENG Stan Mortensen 10 ENG Eddie Baily 11 ENG Jimmy MullenSubstitutes: 12 ENG Jim Taylor Manager: ENG Walter Winterbottom 1 ENG Stan Hanson 2 ENG Bert Mozley 3 ENG Stan Milburn 4 ENG Harry Johnston 5 ENG Reg Flewin (c) 6 ENG Tim Ward 7 ENG Stanley Matthews 8 ENG Jackie Sewell 9 ENG Nat Lofthouse 10 ENG Jimmy Hagan 11 ENG Johnny HancocksManager:? Match officials Assistant referees: R.J. Leafe B.M. Griffiths References Category:FA Community Shield matches Charity Shield Category:Unofficial England national football team matches Category:England at the 1950 FIFA World Cup Charity Shield Charity Shield Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:Football matches in London