But it was particularly galling to lose to the Scots, and they couldn’t have been more delighted. It had never been more important to them to beat us at Wembley.More than anything, I recall that Jim Baxter, a wonderful, elegant player, had a terrific game that day. He wasn’t tearing us to pieces, but he did cause us a great deal of trouble.I can remember that when Denis Law scored he was beside himself with delight. Life could not get any better.1967: ENGLAND 2 SCOTLAND 3BY GEORGE COHENWE ALL knew that sooner or later, in spite of being world champions, we had to be beaten. It was a great season: I had scored in our first game, a 4-1 friendly victory over Manchester United, and scored in the last, a 1-0 win over Real Madrid at the Bernabeu in Alfredo Di Stefano’s testimonial.Sandwiched in between was Wembley. They’d had it shoved down their throats and wanted a victory badly.Denis put us in front, and then I made it 2-0. Tommy Gemmell, my Celtic team-mate, played a ball into the box and I just turned and hit it from 14 yards.

I ran towards the corner flag in celebration and my dad – who never got to many games – was up in that section to see me do it. After Jim McCalliog had put us 3-1 up we should have gone for more but Jim Baxter and Billy Bremner wanted to take the mickey, so we just knocked the ball about with Baxter juggling the ball while fending off Alan Ball.I never played at Wembley again, and I never really understood why I only got 10 caps because I played for Celtic until 1980 and scored 264, which was a post-war record.Five weeks later, Celtic beat Internazionale of Milan to win the European Cup. The newspapers wrote us off and said we had no chance, but I think that fired up the lads even more.Celtic had a European Cup semi-final with Dukla Prague on the Wednesday, so I went down the next day to join up with the Scotland squad in Hertfordshire. It was the first time I had ever met guys like Denis Law, but he made me sit down to dinner with him and the camaraderie was great.We trained at Wembley on the Friday and I remember Eddie McCreadie, of Chelsea, looking up at the scoreboard, pointing to the 0-0 and saying: “If that’s the way it finishes, I am going into Stamford Bridge on Monday with my Scotland strip on.” I’m sure he kept his promise.Eddie, like Denis, Jim Baxter and Billy Bremner, had put up with a lot in the 10 months since England had won the World Cup. I didn’t know then that it was to be my only appearance there, but now I am glad to have played a role in a victory that has kept every Scotland fan talking for 30 years.There was something special about going there when England were world champions and inflicting their first defeat on them.

Celtic won the European Cup and I played and scored at Wembley. The atmosphere was tremendous but the spectators mixed with each other.. that was football in those days As for money, we never even thought about it We were lucky to play in the best era of the lot. The most I ever received for an international was fifty quid.1967: ENGLAND 2 SCOTLAND 3BY BOBBY LENNOXLIFE DIDN’T get any better for me than it did in 1967. He wasn’t easy to play against, but I always seemed to have a good match against him. I wouldn’t have wanted to play against him too often, though.If there was any match you always wanted to play in it was the one against Scotland. One in particular stays with me because it was a pass from Stan on the halfway line and a solo effort from then on.