Description
Taken outside St Enoch’s Hotel, Glasgow, after the match at Celtic Park, Glasgow on 9th April 1904, which England had won 1-0 with a Steve Bloomer goal, this image includes the following players:
From top left:
Steve Bloomer – Derby County
Abraham Jones – Middlesbrough (reserve)
Bernard Wilkinson – Sheffield United
Alex Leake – Aston Villa
Alf Common – Middlesbrough (reserve)
Fred Blackburn – Blackburn Rovers
Jock Rutherford – Newcastle United
Vivian Woodward – Tottenham Hotspur
Herbert Burgess – Manchester City
Samuel Wolstenholme -Everton
Bob Crompton – Blackburn Rovers (Captain)
Stanley Harris – Old Westminsters & Cambridge University, Corinthians
Tom Baddeley played in goal, but isn’t in the photograph due probably to 2 broken fingers, apparently he needed brandy to help revive him (kill the pain) after the match. Who is the face in the window? We shall never know!