England and Italy Soccer Match Is a Draw
MILAN, May 13. In an Association football match today, England versus Italy, the final score was two all. At half-time England had scored one goal to nil. There were 60,000 spectators.
Although Signor Mussolini was not present, he had ordered Italian fans by radio not to barrack the Englishmen, says the I.C.S. Through General Vaccaro, secretary of the Italian Olympic Committee, II Duce had urged the Milanese to adopt sportsmanlike behaviour in order to ensure the continuity of Anglo-Italian .athletic relations which this match initiated,
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Northern Advocate, 15 May 1939, Page 6
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