LOOKING BACK
COLIN ALLAN RECALLS THE 1959 TRIP TO THE AMERICAS…

Bobby Charlton

Jimmy Armfi eld

ENGLAND’S tour of 1959 encompassed thrillingly exotic places for me as a ten-year-old. I marked out the itinerary on my school atlas.
My heroes would fl y down to Rio, cross the Andes to Peru, fl y over the Panama isthmus to mile-high Mexico City before ending their tour in fi lm-star studded Los Angeles. How would the England party cope with such a challenging schedule?
Well, according to the match results and press reports, the tour was an unmitigated disaster. England suffere...