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Dogged England defending kept the Scots at bay in the opening period of the second half, despite James rattling the post with an audacious volley, but the little Scottish forwards were irrepressible, and 20 minutes after the restart, Jackson grabbed his second, from another precise Morton cross.
Gallacher then provided the set up for Alex James to grab a deserved second of the game to make it 4-0, and the Morton-Jackson combination worked again as another cross was forced in the net by the Huddersfield winger to claim his hat-trick and round off the Scottish scoring.
England grabbed a consolation goal in the final minutes from a Kelly free kick, but there was no disguising the fact that the Scots had carried all before them. The legend of the Wembley Wizards was born, although, sadly, that 11 would never play together again. In fact, that rain-swept day in 1928 was to be Tiny Bradshaw's only cap, despite a sterling performance marking the great Dixie Dean out of the game.
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The Cult of Wembley was unstoppable amongst the fans, however, and Wembley Clubs were formed to allow working men to pay for the biennial journey south. 45,000 made the trip in 1932 to watch the Scots lose 3-0. Two years earlier a similar crowd had watched Scotland destroyed 5-2.
Although the defeats may have brought the 1928 victory into sharper focus, we should never forget what a wonderful performance those eleven men gave that day, and perhaps a new generation of Scots children will learn to reel off their names: Harkness, Nelson, Law, Gibson, Bradshaw, McMullan, Jackson, Dunn, Gallacher, James, Morton.
