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| 1 || May 28, 1987 || [[Helsinki Olympic Stadium]], [[Helsinki]] || {{fb|FIN}} || 3-2 || [[Exhibition game|Friendly]] || 1 |
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| 2,3 || June 1, 1987 || [[Ramat Gan]], [[Tel Aviv]] || {{fb|ISR}} || 4-0 || Friendly || 2 |
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| 4 || June 28, 1987 || [[Estadio Olímpico Chateau Carreras]], [[Córdoba (Argentina)|Córdoba]] || {{fb|VEN|1930}} || 5–0 || [[1987 Copa América]] || 1 |
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| 5 || July 7, 1988 || [[Olympic Park Stadium]], [[Melbourne]] || {{fb|AUS}} || 1–0 || [[Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup]] || 1 |
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| 6 || July 17, 1988 || [[Sydney Football Stadium]], [[Sydney]] || {{fb|AUS}} || 2–0 || [[Australia Bicentenary Gold Cup]] || 1 |
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| 7 || July 12, 1989 || [[Estádio do Maracanã]], [[Rio de Janeiro]] || {{fb|ARG}} || 2–0 || [[1989 Copa América]] || 1 |
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| 8 || July 14, 1989 || [[Estádio do Maracanã]], [[Rio de Janeiro]] || {{fb|PAR}} || 3–0 || [[1989 Copa América]] || 1 |
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| 9 || July 16, 1989 || [[Estádio do Maracanã]], [[Rio de Janeiro]] || {{fb|URU}} || 1–0 || [[1989 Copa América]] || 1 |
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| 10 || July 30, 1989 || [[Estadio Brígido Iriarte]], [[Caracas]] || {{fb|VEN|1930}} || 4–0 || [[1990 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)|1990 World Cup qualifier]] || 1 |
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| 11, 12 || September 19, 1993 || [[Estádio do Maracanã]], [[Rio de Janeiro]] || {{fb|URU}} || 2–0 || [[1994 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONMEBOL)|1994 World Cup qualifier]] || 2 |
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| 13 || June 5, 1994 || [[Commonwealth Stadium (Edmonton)|Commonwealth Stadium]], [[Edmonton]] || {{fb|CAN}} || 1-1 || Friendly || 1 |
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| 14, 15, 16 || June 8, 1994 || [[Jack Murphy Stadium]], [[San Diego]] || {{fb|HON}} || 8-2 || Friendly || 3 |
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| 17 || June 12, 1994 || [[Bulldog Stadium]], [[Fresno, California|Fresno]] || {{fb|SLV}} || 4-0 || Friendly || 1 |
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Revision as of 16:41, 28 July 2011
- Scores and results list France's goal tally first.
- Scores and results list Brazil's goal tally first.
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.[1] 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
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.[2]
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.[3]
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.[4] 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.[5]
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.[6] 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.[7]
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
- ^ Invergordon Mutineer.
- ^ Invergordon Mutineer.
- ^ Socialist Worker: Retrospective article on Invergordon
- ^ The National Archives
- ^ Invergordon Mutineer.
- ^ All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings pg 131.
- ^ All Them Cornfields and Ballet in the Evenings pg 131.