Written by Thomas Esamie and Greg Stock. Thanks to Kevin Christopher for the use of his personal material and to John Punshon for the cross-referencing. For more details see credits.
| An English Football Assciation team toured Australia and played two matches against the Australian national side in Sydney and Melbourne. Rale Rasic used these matches as an oppurtunity to view his playing talent before the three match series against Israel later in the year. | ||||
| Played : June 13 1971 | Venue : Sydney Sports Ground, Australia | |||
| Australia Jack Reilly, George Keith, Peter Wilson, John Watkiss, Col Curran, Jim Rooney, Ray Richards, Ray Baartz, George Blues, Adrian Alston, Atti Abonyi (Eric Norman) |
0 | - | 1 | English FA Peter Grummit, Peter Hindley, Alan Stephenson, Keith Eddy, Peter Wall, Mike Keen, Mike Mills, Norman Piper, Chris Chilton, Dave Watson, Chris Garland (George McVitie 82) Goal : Watson 52 |
| Referee : Tony Boskovic (Australia) Attendance : 16,775 Coach : Rale Rasic (Australia) | ||||
| Squad listings Match Report by Paul Dean | ||||
| Played : June 20 1971 | Venue : Olympic Park, Melbourne, Australia | |||
| Australia Jack Reilly, George Keith, Peter Wilson, John Watkiss, Col Curran, Jim Rooney, Ray Richards, Ray Baartz, George Blues (Max Tolson), Adrian Alston, Atti Abonyi |
0 | - | 1 | English FA Peter Grummit, Peter Hindley, Alex Stephenson, Keith Eddy, Peter Wall, Mike Keen, Mike Mills, Norman Piper, Chris Chilton, Dave Watson, Chris Garland Goal : Watson 31 |
| Referee : Geoff Harrison (AUS) Attendance : 12,216 Coach : Rale Rasic (Australia) | ||||
| Squad listings | ||||