Talk:United States v England (1950 FIFA World Cup)

Untitled
no comment about the fact that when the 1-0 scoreline was telegraphed back to england, the newspapers thought it was a misprint and reported the score as 10-1 to england? is this true? Saccerzd 22:23, 22 September 2007 (UTC)

match report link
The match report link appears to be dead. 143.239.7.1 (talk) 11:18, 11 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Which URL are you referring to? The FIFA one (linked as "Report" under the scoreline) works just fine for me.  howcheng  {chat} 15:55, 11 September 2009 (UTC)

Page title
Surely we can do better than this. It doesn't give the sport, the tournament, anything. Please rename. Mglovesfun (talk) 10:07, 25 May 2010 (UTC)
 * This is the standard naming format. See Category:England national football team matches for example.  howcheng  {chat} 16:36, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

In reference to a later event?
How can this 1950 event be called "Miracle on Grass" in reference to a 1980 event? -- DevSolar (talk) 13:55, 29 June 2011 (UTC)
 * It picked up that nickname sometime after 1980. — howcheng  {chat} 19:56, 9 March 2012 (UTC)

Need to rename GA Review page
When the name of this article is finally set, you'll want to rename the GA1 subpage. Right now, the WP:GAN page can't find the review because the article name no longer matches the GA1 subpage. The review page does show up here, because the transclusion also hasn't been modified, though after the rename there should be a redirect that can handle it if you don't fix the transclusion right away. BlueMoonset (talk) 05:05, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Why not 1950 England v United States FIFA World Cup match AIR corn (talk) 06:00, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * I should probably watch Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Football, as I seem to have missed that discussion altogether. I'm not enamored of that title either as it's rather unwieldy. The other thing I don't like about it is having the word "football" in the title, as football is by itself ambiguous. Imagine a 2000 United States v Canada football match ... which sport would that be? I think this discussion needs to be reopened. — howcheng  {chat} 07:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)
 * Review page move has now been completed. Jezhotwells (talk) 14:43, 10 April 2012 (UTC)

Deleted paragraph
In order to qualify for Good Article status, we can't have a book reference where the page number is unspecified, so the following paragraph has been removed from the "Second half" section of the match report:

According to the official history of the English Football Association, American newspapermen reported that England scored two legitimate goals—shots that clearly passed beyond the goal line—but were not given as goals. — howcheng  {chat} 16:18, 18 April 2012 (UTC)

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Uniform
I am not convinced it is appropriate to talk about England's blue 'uniform'. The term 'uniform' is never used in this context in the UK - it would more likely be described as a kit or strip. Dunarc (talk) 22:37, 19 July 2018 (UTC)

Scottish flag
Why is there a Scottish flag alongside the name of William Jeffrey, the US team manager? He wasn't Scottish. Maproom (talk) 07:55, 29 June 2020 (UTC)