Late Tackle

ENGLAND DOWN UNDER

by
The Late Tackle Magazine Team
20 April 2017

COLIN ALLAN looks back to 1980, 1983 and 1991 when the Three Lions went on their travels…

THREE LIONS
COLIN ALLAN

The Soccer Event of the Century. That’s how the official souvenir programme billed the encounter between Australia and England at the Sydney Cricket Ground on May 31,1980.
The Football Association had, over the years, arranged several tours of the Antipodes by representative sides as part of their ‘missionary’ work to the old dominions. However, these were all billed as FA Xl squads. The difference in 1980 was that - to celebrate Australia’s soc...

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