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Scores and results list France's goal tally first.

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Result	Competition	Scored
1	June 1, 1986	Estadio Nou Camp,León	Canada	1-0	1986 World Cup	1
2	June 28, 1986	Estadio Cuauhtémoc, Puebla	Belgium	4-2 (a.e.t.)	1986 World Cup	1
3	September 28, 1988	Parc des Princes, Paris	Norway	1–0	1990 World Cup qualifier	1
4,5	August 16, 1989	Malmö Stadion, Malmö	Sweden	4–2	Friendly	2
6	September 5, 1989	Ullevaal Stadion, Oslo	Norway	1–1	1990 World Cup qualifier	1
7	February 28, 1990	Stade de la Mosson, Montpellier	West Germany	2–1	Friendly	1
8	September 5, 1990	Laugardalsvöllur, Reykjavik	Iceland	2–1	Euro 1992 qualifier	1
9, 10	October 13, 1990	Parc des Princes, Paris	Czechoslovakia	2–1	Euro 1992 qualifier	2
11	February 20, 1991	Parc des Princes, Paris	Spain	3–1	Euro 1992 qualifier	1
12, 13	March 30, 1991	Parc des Princes, Paris	Albania	5–0	Euro 1992 qualifier	2
14	August 14, 1991	Stadion Miejski, Poznań	Poland	5–1	Friendly	1
15, 16	September 4, 1991	Tehelné Pole Stadium, Bratislava	Czechoslovakia	2–1	Euro 1992 qualifier	2
17	October 12, 1991	Benito Villamarín, Sevilla	Spain	2–1	Euro 1992 qualifier	1
18, 19	March 25, 1992	Parc des Princes, Paris	Belgium	3–3	Friendly	2
20	June 5, 1992	Stade Félix Bollaert, Lens	Netherlands	1–1	Friendly	1
21	June 10, 1992	Råsunda Stadium, Solna	Sweden	1–1	Euro 1992	1
22	June 17, 1992	Malmö Stadion, Malmö	Denmark	1–2	Euro 1992	1
23	October 14, 1992	Parc des Princes, Paris	Austria	2–0	1994 World Cup qualifier	1
24	November 14, 1992	Parc des Princes, Paris	Finland	2–1	1994 World Cup qualifier	1
25	March 27, 1993	Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna	Austria	1–0	1994 World Cup qualifier	1
26	July 28, 1993	Stade Michel d'Ornano, Caen	Russia	3–1	Friendly	1
27	September 8, 1993	Ratina Stadion, Tampere	Finland	2–0	1994 World Cup qualifier	1
28	March 22, 1994	Stade Gerland, Lyon	Chile	3–1	Friendly	1
29	May 29, 1994	Olympic Stadium (Tokyo), Tokyo	Japan	4–1	Kirin Cup	1
30	December 13, 1994	Hüseyin Avni Aker Stadium, Trabzon	Azerbaijan	2–0	Euro 1996 qualifier	1

Len Wilcott (1907–1983) was an English sailor, mutineer and communist activist who later defected to the Soviet Union.

Childhood and early Naval career

Len Wilcott was born in poverty in Leicester in 1907. Having few other options, he joined the Royal Navy as a boy seaman in 1923 after time at the training centre for boys at Shotley in Suffolk. Despite the low pay and low peacetime prospects, the navy provided him with a degree of security. His service record at The National Archives (piece ADM 188/861) up to the end of 1929 and shows a model seaman.

Invergordon Mutiny, September 1931

Main article: Invergordon Mutiny

In September 1931, as part of its attempts to deal with the Great Depression, the new National Government launched cuts to public spending. Navy spending cuts were translated into a 10% pay cut (matching 10% cuts across the board for public sector workers). However, the cuts were not applied equally to all ranks. Sailors of the Atlantic Fleet, arriving at Invergordon (on the Cromarty Firth in Scotland) in the afternoon of Friday 11 September, learned about the cuts from newspaper reports. Wincott - then a 24-year-old able seaman serving on the Norfolk, organized meetings which prevented the cruiser from moving for two days.

The mutiny lasted two days (15–16 September 1931). Wincott, with another able seaman - Fred Copeman - became a member of the Norfolk's strike committee. Although the mutiny was entirely peaceful, the Royal Navy imprisoned dozens of the ringleaders and dismissed hundreds more, Wincott among them.

Communist Party activist

Shortly after being discharged from the Royal Navy, he became involved with the Communist Party speaking at meetings up and down Britain. During this time according to The National Archives, he was being followed, and his mail was intercepted by MI5. Wilcott himself was aware of this and mentions in his memoirs that that he was aware of being followed and of his letters being read and he even named one of the informers as being a disaffected shipmate named Terry Gentry. Partly as a result of being under surveillance by MI5, he decided to defect to the Soviet Union in 1934. In his memoirs he claims to have done so on the the advice of Harry Pollitt the General Secretary of the Communist Party, who reportedly assured him that it was only a matter of time till the whole world became Communist, and that he was lucky to jump the queue.

In the Soviet Union

In the Soviet Union Wilcott given the status of a hero and received VIP treatment. Soviet Propaganda elevated him to a symbol of the British working class, struggling for their rights. He settled in Leningrad where he joined the Anglo-American section of the International Seamen's Club. His job here was to indoctrinate Western crew members on shore leave into the virtues of Communism. During the Second World War he survived through the nearly 900 days Siege of Leningrad, but shortly after the war his luck ran out.

In 1946, he was accused of being of being a British spy and duly arrested by the NKVD. After a show trial he was sentenced to a long term in the GULAG. At one time he was in the same labour camp as Victor Louis. After spending nearly 11 years in labour camps he was only rehabilitated during the onset of Nikita Khrushchev's De-Stalinization campaign in 1956. After his release, he became of a friend of Donald Maclean and contributed articles for the Anglo-Soviet Friendship Society magazine.

Apart from a visit to England in 1974 Wincott spent the rest of his life in the Soviet Union. He met and married his fourth wife in the GULAG and he finally died in Moscow in 1983. According to his last wishes, his ashes were scattered over Devonport Harbour..

Sources and references

• Len Wincott, Invergordon Mutineer, Weidenfeld, London 1974 - memoirs.
• [[1]] National Archives
• Alan Ereira, The Invergordon Mutiny, Routledge, London 1981 - popular account of the mutiny by a BBC producer.
• John Miller, All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings, Hodgson Press, London, 2010 - autobiography