H v Turkey 14.10.1987

My first England Senior match.

Won 8-0 crowd 42,528

England U21s v Scotland U21s 12.2.1980 (at Coventry)

My second England match was also an U21 game. I was living near Coventry at the time as my Dads job took him to Birmingham airport.




1980

EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP QUARTER FINAL
12/02/1980, Coventry, Highfield Road, 15.382
ENGLAND U21 2-1 SCOTLAND U21 [HT 1-0]
Scorers: Gary Owen 8', Bryan Robson 86'

ENGLAND U21:
Gary Bailey [Manchester United] [4/0]
Billy Wright [Everton] [5/0]
Kenny Sansom [Crystal Palace] [5/0]
Bryan Robson [West Bromwich Albion] [6/2]
Russell Osman [Ipswich Town] [4/0]
Terry Butcher [Ipswich Town] [4/0]
Vince Hilare [Crystal Palace] [2/1]
Glenn Hoddle [Tottenham Hotspurs] [9/2]
Garth Crooks [Stoke City] [2/3]
Gary Owen [Manchester City] [14/1]
Graham Rix [Arsenal] [7/0]
[COACH: Dave Sexton]

England U21 v Norway U21 (Goldstone Ground) 6.9.1977

England U21s play at the Goldstone. Brighton player Peter Ward plays and stars!

Result 6-0 win

Peter Ward (3)
Peter Barnes
John Deehan (2)









EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIP QUALIFIER
06/09/1977, Brighton, Goldstone Ground
ENGLAND U21 6-0 NORWAY U21
Scorers: Peter Ward 16', 35', 67', Peter Barnes 29', John Deehan 49', 77'



ENGLAND U21:
John Middleton [Derby County] [1/0]
Paul Hinshelwood [Crystal Palace] [1/0]
David Peach [Southampton] [4/1]
Steve Williams [Southampton] [4/0]
Steve Simms [Leicester City] [5/0]
Paul Futcher [Manchester City] [5/0]
Laurie Cunningham [West Bromwich Albion] [4/1]
Peter Ward [Brighton & Hove Albion] [1/3]
John Deehan [Aston Villa] [2/3]
Gary Owen [Manchester City] [4/0]
Peter Barnes [Manchester City] [5/2]

Ward only went on to get 1 full cap v Australia in Sydney 31.5.1980. He came on as a sub for Alan Sunderland as England won 2-1 with goals from Paul Mariner and Glenn Hoddle






INTERNATIONAL RECORD:
Biography 1980
The shortest England career in history belongs, ignonimously, to Peter Ward. The Brighton and Hove Albion striker, with 16 goals to his name in a good season (he is pictured above playing for Albion during that 79/80 campaign), earned a place on Ron Greenwood's reservist trip to Australia prior to the 1980 European Championships, but only got six minutes as a late sub for Alan Sunderland, and never came back. He was called up because the main squad was resting prior to the big business in Italy, and has become something of a cult figure with England fans as a consequence. A big-money move to Nottingham Forest shortly afterwards was a disaster, and he soon sank in status. Brian Marwood's nine-minute cameo in 1988 is the closest subsequent attempt to 'break' the record