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29 / Sat Feb 18, 1950 / League / Football League Division One (D1) / Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Portsmouth

29 /  Sat Feb 18, 1950 / League / Football League Division One (D1) / Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Portsmouth

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Era 1946-1973
Season 1949-50
Date Sat Feb 18, 1950
Match Type First Team
Competition Sponsor
Competition Football League Division One (D1)
Match No 29
Stage League
Kick Off 2.30pm
Venue Molineux
Weather
Home Team Wolverhampton Wanderers
Away Team Portsmouth
Attendance 46679
Receipts
Referee G Clark (London)
Status Completed after 90 minutes
Final Score Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Portsmouth
Home Scorers McLean 7
Away Scorers -
Home Line Up Butler Rookes Ferrier Scoular Flewin Dickinson Harris Pickett Clarke Phillips Froggatt
Away Line Up Williams Kelly Pritchard Baxter Shorthouse Wright Smith Walker McLean Swinbourne Mullen
Match Summary Pompey slip six points off the pace as makeshift Wolves – 14 stone full-back McLean was playing up front – snatch the points. McLean soon makes his weight count, nodding home Mullen’s corner. Pompey rarely looked like saving it, but Williams had to be at his best to deny Harris.
Source Portsmouth Champions of England, Farmery C, Desert Island Books (2000)
Pompeyrama Wolverhampton Wanderers 1-0 Portsmouth
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