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Wembley Stadium
The Empire Stadium, Wembley
England
1-1
Poland
Wednesday 17 October 1973
World Cup Qualifier
Attendance: 100,000
⚽ Allan Clarke 63'
⚽ Jan Domarski (57)
🟨 Roy McFarland '
First Half
🟨 0' Roy McFarland
Second Half
⚽ 63' Allan Clarke (pen)
⮌ 85' Martin Chivers
⮕ 85' Kevin Hector
ENGLAND
POLAND
Starting XI
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01Peter Shilton (G)
Cap number 15
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02Paul Madeley (D)
Cap number 15
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03Emlyn Hughes (D)
Cap number 28
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05Roy McFarland (CD)
Cap number 21
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06Norman Hunter (CD)
Cap number 25
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04Colin Bell (M)
Cap number 31
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11Martin Peters (M) (C)
Cap number 64
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08Mick Channon (F)
Cap number 10
85'
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10Allan Clarke (F)
Cap number 15
63' (pen)
Substitutes
85'
1Jan Tomaszewski
2Antoni Szymanowski
3Mirosław Bulzacki
4Jerzy Gorgoń
5Adam Musiał
6Henryk Kasperczak
7Grzegorz Lato
8Łewslaw Ćmikiewicz
9Kazimierz Deyna (Capt.)
10Jan Domarski (57)
11Robert Gadocha
1973
/74

DT92 Members at this game:

Moretongary Dartmoor
92

Probably the most one-sided draw I have seen at top level. How England only scored once will always be a mystery and they fail to qualify for the World Cup

philorient
81

Went with Graham.

alanchapman
31

Match no. 310. England needed to win this game to qualify for the 1974 World Cup Finals in West Germany from a 3-team group that also included Wales. Despite bombarding the Polish goal and creating dozens of chances, a mix of poor finishing, bad luck and the inspired heroics of the eccentric Polish goalkeeper, Tomaszewski, England could only manage one goal, an Allan Clarke penalty, in reply to a breakaway goal by Domarski. Consequently, England failed to qualify for the finals for the first time since they first entered in 1950.