This Day in History: 2022-11-17

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SOVIET UNION KNOCK ENGLAND OUT OF WORLD CUP (1958)

Six months before the 1958 World Cup England harboured realistic hopes of winning the tournament, but that all changed at Munich. In the air disaster England tragically lost three world-class talents in Duncan Edwards, Tommy Taylor and Roger Bryne. And so a weakened England travelled to Sweden and drew all three of their group games against the Soviet Union, Brazil and Austria. In a play-off against the Soviets at the Ullevi Stadium in Gothenburg England’s Peter Brabrook twice hit the post befare Anatoly Ilyin’s goal after 69 minutes denied them a place in the quarter-finals.

Don Howe, Bobby Charlton, Peter Brabrook and Peter Broadbent alight from the plane which carried England back from Sweden.