Many footballers signed up to fight in the war and as a result many teams were depleted, and fielded guest players instead.

Scotland faced England in a wartime international on 4 October 1941 at Wembley Stadium in front of 65,000 fans.

[4] On 18 April a third game between the two sides took place at Hampden Park, Glasgow in front of 91,000 supporters.

This time Scotland won 5–4, with their goals coming from a Jock Dodds hat-trick and one each from Bill Shankly and Billy Liddell.

The line up was: Jerry Dawson, Jimmy Carabine, Andy Beattie, Bill Shankly, Tom Smith, Matt Busby, Willie Waddell, Alec Herd, Jock Dodds, Gordon Bremner and Billy Liddell.