Wales' Record Score

Only 2000 people were at The Racecourse on 03.03.88 to witness Wales registering an 11-0 win over Ireland. Wales had lost their opening match against England 5-1 and the following week would go down by the same score against Scotland. Things didn't get much better for Ireland- they lost 10-2 against Scotland, making their 5-1 defeat at the hands of England relatively creditable.
The scorers for Wales were Jack Doughty (4) Roger Doughty (2) Edmund Howell (2) Job Wilding (2) and William Pryce-Jones

The Wales team, pictured above: standing l-r: Reuben Humphreys (Ruabon Druids); Joe Davies (Newton Heath); Dr. Alfred O. Davies (Swifts); Dr. Bob Mills-Roberts (Preston North End); Jack  Powell (Newton Heath); Di Jones (Chirk AAA); seated l-r: William Pryce-Jones (Cambridge University); Job Wilding (Bootle); Jack Doughty (Newton Heath); Roger Doughty (Newton Heath); Edmund Gwynne Howell (Builth).

 Alfred O. Davies, William Pryce-Jones and E. Gwynne Howell left the field early in order to catch a train with Wales 10-0 up.

Ireland's unfortunate goalkeeper was Cliftonville debutant Jack Clugston. He was omitted for the rest of the season but came back the following year. In total he played 14 internationals, shipping 69 goals.

Scottish League 1890

Yesterday FIFA marked the anniversary of the inception of the Scottish Football League on Twitter:

#OnThisDay in 1890, the first matches were played in the Scottish League. pic.twitter.com/qNir6DFEgB

— FIFA.com (@FIFAcom) August 16, 2016

 Well Played The Hibs!
 Hibernian, however, were not founder members. Here is a list of the results of that first day of League football in Scotland:

Celtic	1	4	Renton
Cambuslang	8	2	Vale of Leven
Rangers	5	2	Heart of Midlothian
Dumbarton	1	1	Cowlairs

Teams not in action were Abercorn, St Mirren and Third Lanarkshire Rifle Volunteers.
Dumbarton and Rangers shared the title after a drawn play off match. 

Soviet Union in Germany, 1927

 In July 1927 the Soviet Union undertook a tour of Germany.
The hosts were not the DFB but  socialist organization Arbeiter-Turn-und Sportbund (The Workers' Gymnastic and Sports Association).

02.07.27	Arbeiter-Turn-und Sportbund	2	8	Soviet Union	Leipzig (27000)
10.07.27	Arbeiter-Turn-und Sportbund	1	4	Soviet Union	Hamburg (25000)
	Arbeiter-Turn-und Sportbund was a national team drawn from clubs playing in the Arbeiter-Turn-und Sportbund national championship, which ran from 1920-32.
13.07.27	North West Germany	2	8	Soviet Union	Bremen (8000)
15.07.27	Dresdner SV 1910	0	3	Soviet Union	Dresden (20000)
	Dresdner SV 10 were the ATSB national champions 4 years in a row (1923-27)
20.07.27	Chemnitz	0	8	Soviet Union	Chemnitz (10000)
22.07.27	Baden-Pfalz	2	12	Soviet Union	Mannheim (15000)
24.07.27	Rheinland-Westphalia	1	5	Soviet Union	Bremen (20000)
27.07.27	Vienna	3	1	Soviet Union	Dresden (10000)
29.07.27	Vienna	1	6	Soviet Union	Leipzig (15000)
	A Workers’ team billed as ‘Austria’ in some Soviet reports.
30.07.27	Berlin	2	6	Soviet Union	Berlin (20000)

P	W	D	L	F	A
10	9		1	61	14

Squad:

		Club	City
GK	Nikolai Sokolov	Dinamo	Leningrad
	Fyodor Chulkov	Dinamo	Moscow
FB	Petr Edzov	Pischevkus	Leningrad
	Vasili Lapshin	Trekhgorka	Moscow
	Pavel Pchelikov	OPPV	Moscow
HB	Pavel Baturiev	Dinamo	Leningrad
	Fyodor Selin	Trekhgorka	Moscow
	Vladimir Fomin	October Revolution FC	Kharkov
	Ivan Privalov	Rabis	Kharkov
	Alexei Stolyarov	Dinamo	Leningrad
FW	Nikolai Starotsin	Pishchevik	Moscow
	Mikhail Butusov	Pischevkus	Leningrad
	Petr Isakov	Pishchevik	Moscow
	Aleksandr Shpakovski	Rabis	Kharkov
	Aleksandr Kholin	Trekhgorka	Moscow
	Aleksandr Straub	Kanatchik	Odessa

Pavel Baturiev was captain.












Trainer was Mikhail Kozlov. Kozlov was a former player of КVКILSI (Tver) and SKL (Moscow). He led the Soviet Union side 1924—1935 and later Spartak Moscow.



















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