England 1-1 Wales (1973) WCQ 

Good observation! A couple of decent saves from Sprake - even though he was no longer first-choice 'keeper for Leeds by then.

yup -- that and "you don't blame goalkeepers for that, you congratulate scorers" rip

England should not lost to Poland in the away match. That's it.

@@mohdazmi10 They lost though, it was a fully deserved Polish win as well.

Incredibly tough group. I believe England and Poland were ranked 3rd & 4th in the world behind Brazil and west Germany who didn't have to qualify. England were by far the better side against Poland over two matches but luck plays it part in football and England were quite unlucky in the 70s

Yes true but did you see the match ? Not like England werent good enough .they just couldn't score !!

@@ossyable Did you watch the 2-0 defeat in Poland? England were dire. Moore the worst.

@@iananderson3799 according to mick channon england side was "superior" i think poor mick might want to check out the definition of the word and while he's at it might want to look up 'delusional" as well England were pathetic in Poland and followed up with a lame performance at home i think England played Italy in a friendly around that time and played ok but couldn't score And you can't win without scoring can you?

@@ossyable what about Holland, Argentina and Italy?

It was a world cup qualifying game in Jan 1973 not a home championship match

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Well no, even if they won that game, say by one goal, they'd still have to beat Poland (back then - win 2 points) So, it didn't matter

@@przemek4424 well that ill-fated World Cup qualifier with Poland at Wembley on 17 October 1973 is history now but then it is worth while recalling why England as the 1966 World Cup champions failed to qualify for the 1974 World Cup finals in West Germany. It was the 1972/1973 World Cup qualifying matches with Wales and Poland that would decide the fate of England's supremo Sir Alf Ramsey. He had one final chance after having failed in the 1971/1972 European Cup nations campaign where England were knocked out of contention by eventual winners West Germany by a 3-1 aggregate in the two legged quarter-finals. And England had the easiest of all passage to Munich with Wales and Poland in their group. In November of 1972 at Ninian Park Cardiff a Colin Bell goal enabled Sir Alf's team to secure two points. All points to an England victory in the return match the following year in January at Wembley.But it was the visitors who shocked the home team with an opening goal by John Toshack.Only an equalising goal by pre 1966 World player Norman Hunter saved England from defeat. With that draw it made England's task the more harder and trickier in its passage to qualify for Munich. The Poles had also lost 2-0 to Wales and that made the Munich qualification and open one. Poland with Wlodek Lubanski,Jan Domarski,Jan Banas and Robert Dyena we're difficult opponents to beat at home as they had trounced Wales 3-0 at home. And on June 6 at Katowice Sir Alf's charges were stunned 2-0 at Katowice with skipper Bobby Moore uncharacteristically committed two blunders which led to Jan Banas and Wlodek Lubanski scoring.To make matters worse,midfielder Alan Ball was sent off by the Austrian referee. A ten men England were helpless in fighting back a two goal deficit. With England only four points and Poland also four points all now pointed to the decisive clash at Wembley on 17 October with Poland needing only a draw to qualify whereas England an outright win no matter what the score.The Poles had a better goal difference than England. Without the suspended Alan Ball and with Bobby now on the substitute bench to make way for Norman Hunter the recently deceased Martin Peters was now the only sole survivor from the 1966 World Cup winning team. Barely a month before that crucial clash at Wembley England had crushed Austria 7-0 at Wembley in a friendly. It seemed so obvious that the Poles would be like lambs to be slaughtered at Wembley.Every an English football fan seemed to think that way but not for the Poles.And Derby County's loud mouthed Brian Clough even labelled the Polish goalkeeper Jan Tomaszeski a clown. But on that evening on October 17,it was Tomaszeski that defied England time and again with his histronic saves out of no where and at times too luck too helped by the post. The England frontline of Martin Chivers,Mick Channon and Allan Clarke had countless chances to score but only God knows why they did not score.The biggest culprit was the fumbling and clumsy Martin Chivers but he stayed on to play until only two minutes left.Why did not Sir Alf substitute him much earlier for Kevin Hector.Chivers after that never played for his country again. And England had something like twenty six corners But the ball refused to be buried into the net. Against the run of play Norman Hunter instead of clearing the ball out of the touch line allowed Robert Dachota to evade him and the latter set up the pass for Jan Domarsk's killer goal. Despite an Allan Clarke equaliser via a penalty in the 61st minute England despite intense pressure on the Polish goal just could not find the elusive second goal.

@@yiseng4602 Poland duly lost in Wales as you know, so this draw with Wales at Wembley wasn´t that significant at all! After all, England took more points from Wales in the competition than Poland did... What was significant, is that England lost in Poland and failed to beat them at home. Longer is this story not. About England-Wales, it was funny enough that both goals were scored against their respective clubmates (Toshack/Clemence, Hunter/Sprake).

@@yiseng4602 Martin Chivers suffered trauma in that Poland match and never regained his old sharpness again. Later he left Spurs for Brighton.

@@Farerets I think Gary Sprake had left Leeds at this time.

Not at all. Poland duly lost in Wales, so this England draw with Wales at Wembley wasn´t that significant at all! After all, England took more points from Wales in the competition than Poland did... What was significant, is that England LOST in Poland and failed to beat them at home. It was enough for England just to get two draws or share points with Poland. Longer is this story not. About England-Wales, it was funny enough that both goals were scored against their respective clubmates (Toshack/Clemence, Hunter/Sprake).

England played 5-3-2 in this match.

Piss off.

Well, that great team ended at place 3 in a 3 team group. They had Sprake in goal, who was amazing in all games. Toshack, Hockey and James, but that was all.

Wales had other great players like Spurs captain England, Yorath of mighty Leeds or Mahoney of Stoke. They ended in an incredibly strong group with top world class nations and still got 3 points out of 8. In some other groups they would have a chance of qualifying.

Stupid comment as that was a decent Wales side. Don't forget that they managed to beat Poland at home which was more than England could do.

yea, and Poland came 3rd in the world cup, and 2 years later Wales was the only British team to make the Euro 1/4 finals. In 69 Wales would have had to ko the eventual finalists Italy to qualify for the world cup- often very tough groups Wales have been in

did not realize he had passed -- rip to a legend

And prince of Wales cheering for England...

Why not 1974? Poland did very well in the World Cup Finals

Yeah kurwa! Entered the English language that nite

Tenía haber ganado Inglaterra,no se vio superioridad, Bell, fatal en los paces s Peters

You don´t know much about football history, do you? Poland duly lost in Wales, so this England draw with Wales at Wembley wasn´t that significant at all! After all, England took more points from Wales in the competition than Poland did... What was significant, is that England LOST in Poland and failed to beat them at home. It was enough for England just to get two draws or share points with Poland. Longer is this story not.