LONDON BOYS v. NEWCASTLE BOYS
Inter-City Match
5 - 2 
30 April 1921
Att: 15,000

LONDON BOYS (Jones 2, Fraser, Lawrence, Sidey) 

Young (Hackney), Nowell (South London), Mayhew (East Ham), Hugo (South London), Wilkins (East Ham),

Jollands (Hackney), Lawrence (Willesden), Jones (West London), Fraser (West Ham), Sidey (Tottenham), Grant (West Ham)

NEWCASTLE BOYS (Trotter 2) 

Tunnah, Brown, Jennings, Wilkinson, Borley, Curry, Tone, Sedgewickson, Trotter, Smith, Tremlett

The return inter-city match between London Schoolboys and Newcastle Schoolboys was played in the presence of about 15,000 spectators at Upton Park. A fine contest resulted in victory for the London team by 5-2. The winners showed remarkable cleverness in all departments, but the feature of the game was the plucky display of the Newcastle boys, who despite being four clear goals in arrears at the interval played the second half unflinchingly against a heavier and clever side.
The Newcastle boys deserved all the sympathy of the crowd for their plucky display. London played with confidence from the start and quickly pressed the visitors' defence hard. The back were often put in difficulties by the sweeping movements of the London forwards, and at the end of seven minutes Sidey opened the scoring. This was followed by goals from Fraser, the West Ham Schoolboys' captain and Jones in the course of a few minutes. Before the interval Jones scored again for London.
The second half was more even. London missed three chances in the early stages, and Trotter the Newcastle centre-forward, missed a penalty-kick given for hands. He made amends, however, later by scoring with a capital long shot, and also obtaining the second for Newcastle with an equally fine effort; but sandwiched between these two was a brilliant run and goal by Lawrence the London outside-right.