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I’m not surprised considering the Dutch were playing a school team.

I went to the rearranged England Bulgaria match the day after it was postponed for fog. Three of our party couldn’t go so I tried to tout the tickets outside Wembley (I said life was simpler then). I was offering three £3 tickets for £3 (it was a buyers’ market), shouting “3 tickets for £3”. A...

Yup, against Bulgaria. Was postponed as we walked up Wembley way. It was held the next night. Funny how so many aspects of the modern age would just never allow an international to be postponed and played the following night. Life is getting more complicated.

Does anyone know (without googling it) why my first, Wembley, England international experience in the late seventies was on two successive evenings?