1978 British Home Championship

1978 British Home Championship

The 1978 British Home Championship football competition between the British Home Nations was won by an England side smarting from their failure to qualify for the 1978 FIFA World Cup. The Scots, who had qualified for the World Cup and of whom much was expected following impressive form and a strong team in the months going into the finals performed particulaly poorly in the Home Championship, foreshadowing their performance in Argentina a few months later. The English capitalised on a heavy victory over the Welsh in their first match and then won in their next two beating an already demoralised Scotland who had only managed to draw with the Welsh and Irish. The Welsh improved following their initial loss, beating the Irish and holding the Scots to a 1-1 draw in Glasgow to claim second place.

Table

The points system worked as follows:
* 2 points for a win
* 1 point for a draw

Results

footballbox
date = May 13, 1978
team1 = fb-rt|Scotland
score = 1–1
team2 = fb|Northern Ireland
goals1 = Derek Johnstone
goals2 = Martin O'Neill
stadium = Hampden Park, Glasgow
----footballbox
date = May 13, 1978
team1 = fb-rt|Wales
score = 1–3
team2 = fb|England
goals1 = Phil Dwyer
goals2 = Peter Barnes, Tony Currie, Bob Latchford
stadium = Ninian Park, Cardiff
----footballbox
date = May 16, 1978
team1 = fb-rt|England
score = 1–0
team2 = fb|Northern Ireland
goals1 = Phil Neal
goals2 =
stadium = Wembley Stadium, London
----footballbox
date = May 17, 1978
team1 = fb-rt|Scotland
score = 1–1
team2 = fb|Wales
goals1 = Derek Johnstone
goals2 = "Own Goal"
stadium = Hampden Park, Glasgow
----footballbox
date = May 19, 1978
team1 = fb-rt|Wales
score = 1–0
team2 = fb|Northern Ireland
goals1 = Nick Deacy
goals2 =
stadium = Racecourse Ground, Wrexham
----footballbox
date = May 20, 1978
team1 = fb-rt|Scotland
score = 0–1
team2 = fb|England
goals1 =
goals2 = Steve Coppell
stadium = Hampden Park, Glasgow

References

*cite book
author= Guy Oliver| title=The Guinness Record of World Soccer
date=1992
publisher=Guinness
id=ISBN 0-851129-54-4


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