England Match No. 557 - Norway - 9 September 1981 (original) (raw)
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Match Summary
  Officials |
Norway | Type | England |
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| Referee (-)- Jerzy Kacprzak x (-). Linesmen - tbc | Goal Attempts | ||
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Norway Team
| Rank: | No official ranking;EFO ranking ELO rating 76th to 67th | Colours: | Made by Hummel - Red v-necked collared jerseys with white collar/cuffs and Hummel chevron, white shorts with red Hummel chevron, black socks with white trim. | | | | |
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| Capt: | | Manager: | Tor Røste Fossen | | | | |
| Norway Lineup | | | | | | | |
| 1 | Antonsen, Tore | | 9 March 1950 | G | | | ᵍᵃ |
| 2 | Berntsen, Bjarne | | 21 December 1956 | | | | |
| 3 | Hareide, Åge F. | | 23 September 1953 | | | | |
| 4 | Aas, Einer J. | | 12 October 1955 | | | | |
| 5 | Grøndalen, Svein | | 8 February 1955 | | | | |
| 6**
** | Albertsen, Roger | | 15 March 1957 | | | | |
| 7 | Giske, Anders | | 22 November 1959 | | | | |
| 8**** | Thoresen, Hallvar | | 12 April 1957 | | | | |
| 9 | Larsen Økland, Arne, off 87th min. | | 31 May 1954 | | | | |
| 10 | Jacobsen, Pål | | 20 May 1956 | | | | |
| 11 | Lund, Tom, off 75th min. | | 10 September 1950 | | | | |
| Norway Substitutes | | | | | | | |
| 14 | Dokken, Arne, on 75th min. for Lund | | 27 August 1955 | | | | |
| 16 | Pedersen, Trond, on 87th min. for Larsen Økland | | 10 February 1951 | | | | |
| unused substitutes: | - | | | | | | |
| team notes: | Hallvar Thoresen is the son of Gunnar Thoresen, who played for Norway against England in May 1949. | | | | | | |
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| Averages: | Age | - | Appearances/Goals | - | - | | |
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England Team
| Rank: | No official ranking;EFO ranking ELO rating 11th to 14th | Colours: | The 1980 Admiral home uniform - White v-necked jerseys with royal blue/red shoulder panels, royal blue shorts with red side stripe and white seam, white socks with red/blue tops. | |||||
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| Capt: | Kevin Keegan, 27th captaincy | Manager: | Ronald Greenwood, 59 (11 November 1921), appointed as caretaker 17 August 1977, permanent on 17 December 1977,43rd match, W 24 - D 9 - L 10 - F 73 - A 37. | |||||
| England Lineup |
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| 1 | Clemence, Raymond N. | 33 | 5 August 1948 | GK | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 57 | 50ᵍᵃ | |
| 2 | Neal, Philip J. | 30 | 20 February 1951 | RB | Liverpool FC | 33 | 3 | |
| 3 | Mills, Michael D. | 32 | 4 January 1949 | LB | Ipswich Town FC | 34 | 0 | |
| 4 | Thompson, Philip B. | 27 | 21 January 1954 | CD | Liverpool FC | 30 | 1 | |
| 5 | Osman, Russell C. | 22 | 14 February 1959 | CD | Ipswich Town FC | 5 | 0 | |
| 6**** |
Robson, Bryan | 24 | 11 January 1957 | M | West Bromwich Albion FC | 13 | 1 | |
| 7 | Keegan, J. Kevin | 30 | 14 February 1951 | OR | Southampton FC | 58 | 20 | |
| 8 | Francis, Trevor J. | 27 | 19 April 1954 | AM | Manchester City FC | 23 | 5 | |
| 9 | Mariner, Paul, off 75th min. | 28 | 22 May 1953 | CF | Ipswich Town FC | 17 | 5 | |
| 10 | Hoddle, Glenn, off 65th min. | 23 | 27 October 1957 | M | Tottenham Hotspur FC | 8 | 3 | |
| 11 | McDermott, Terence | 29 | 8 December 1951 | M | Liverpool FC | 20 | 3 | |
| England Substitutes |
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| 16 | Barnes, Peter S., on 65th min. for Hoddle | 24 | 10 June 1957 | LM | Leeds United AFC | 21 | 18 | 4 |
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| 15 | Withe, Peter, on 75th min. for Mariner | 30 | 30 August 1951 | CF | Aston Villa FC | 4 | 3 | 0 |
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| unused substitutes: | - | |||||||
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| Averages: | Age | - | Appearances/Goals | - | - |
Match Report by Mike Payne
Match Report by Norman Giller
After hitting the heights against Hungary, England sunk to an all-time low when they lost to Norway's team of part-time professionals - a defeat that seemed certain to end their World Cup hopes. Bryan Robson gave England a fourteenth minute lead and a comfortable victory looked well within reach, but the Norwegians battled back to snatch a thirty-fourth minute equaliser that gave them the momentum to go on to what was considered the greatest triumph in a football history that had mostly been about taking part. Thorensen took advantage of dithering in the England defence in the fortieth minute to force home what proved the match-winning goal. It was a humiliating defeat to rank with the 1950 World Cup loss to the United States. Once again, the knives were out for Ron Greenwood. The game lives on through the delirious words of Norwegian television commentator Bjorn Minge, who switched to English as the final whistle blew to tell the world: 'Lord Nelson! Lord Beaverbrook! Sir Winston Churchill! Sir Anthony Eden! Clement Attlee! Henry Cooper! Lady Diana! Maggie Thatcher - can you hear me, Maggie Thatcher! Your boys took one hell of a beating! Your boys took one hell of a beating!'
Source Notes
TheFA.com Original newspaper reports Rothman's Yearbooks Mike Payne's England: The Complete Post-War Record(Breedon Books Publishing Company, Derby, U.K., 1993)
Norman Giller, Football Author____________________CG