Barry Davies
BBC commentator

It has to be said really, an awful half for England.

They looked like a collection of players who are strangers to each other.

Wales leading by a goal to nothing and deserving it.

There we have it, with no time to be added on at the end of the first half, we have reached half time with Wales deservedly ahead.

Mark Hughes has been the stand-out performer and deserves his goal and England look like a bunch of strangers, with late replacement Paul Walsh a virtual spectator.

Surely England will improve after the interval?

Almost embarrassingly comfortable for Wales approaching half time.

Barry Davies
BBC commentator

The Welsh perhaps will be a little unhappy with themselves that they're not more than one goal ahead.

They've certainly been the better team.

It's a staccato match, though.

Mickey Thomas gets a kindly bounce and a chance to shoot, but that's high, wide and not very handsome.

Peter Shilton didn't even flinch.

Mark Hughes is almost in again for Wales, but Mike Duxbury denies him with a superb last-ditch tackle.

That's match action straight off the Manchester United training field and manager Ron Atkinson probably enjoyed it.

Big Ron needs cheering up to, after United's exit in the semi-final of the Cup Winners' Cup at the hands of Juventus last week.

Barry Davies
BBC commentator

Mickey Thomas is a lively lad, to put it mildly.

John Gregory heads over from a set-piece.

Winning his sixth cap, the future manager might want to relish this chance to wear the Three Lions on his chest.

Gregory never plays for his country again after this game.

Mark Hughes' first touch is a thing of beauty.

No matter how high, how fast or how bobbly the pass to him, rest assured he will trap it gracefully and with minimal fuss.

There's a football museum in Wrexham these days. They should put on an exhibition devoted to Hughes' control.

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One of the most interesting running battles in this game is between Wales striker Ian Rush and England centre-back Mark Wright.

Rush is in the form of his life, enjoying a season which would see him crowned Footballer of the Year and a European Cup winner with Liverpool, scoring 47 goals in all competitions.

Southampton's Wright, by contrast, is making his international debut and looks like he could still be in school judging by his awkward, gangly frame.

He would eventually fill out and go on to win 45 caps for England, helping them reach the 1990 World Cup semi-finals.

Wright left Southampton for Derby in 1987 and then in 1991 he joined Liverpool to team up with... Ian Rush.

Bobby Robson casts a disconsolate figure on the England bench as the camera pans to him.

He looks like he would rather be anywhere else.

Barry Davies
BBC commentator

There's no cohesion about this England team at the moment.

Bobby Robson's team look very much just a collection of individuals thrown on the park, which is what they are, through no fault of theirs or his.

Wales' game management since going ahead has been bang on the money but also, so 1980s. Pass, pass, pass, backpass to Neville Southall.

Rinse and repeat.

Modern football often suffers in comparison to our nostalgia, but show me a football fan who misses the backpass being a thing and I will show you a liar or a goalkeeper.

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Football commentators are not always encouraged to express their opinions - but nobody is going to stop Barry Davies from airing his views.

He is one of the BBC's iconic voices of football, and throughout his long and distinguished career he has always been one to speak his mind.

Think of West Brom's controversial goal at title-chasing Leeds in 1971: "Leeds will go mad, and they have every right to go mad!"

Nothing quite as contentious in this Wales-England match, though Davies has been happy to chip in with his thoughts at times.

Take his comments about this makeshift England side or that stoppage from referee David Syme, which Davies disdainfully dismissed as "totally unnecessary".

That's a decent effort from England as Tony Woodcock turns and shoots but can't trouble Neville Southall.

Woodcock, like Wales striker Ian Rush, is having a decent season.

The Arsenal forward has passed 20 goals for the campaign and you may remember, back in October, Woodcock scored five goals in a single match as the Gunners demolished Aston Villa 6-2 at Villa Park.

If you do remember, no doubt you will also recall that Ian Rush scored five goals against Luton Town at Anfield, on the very same day, Saturday, 29 October 1983.

The strangest part of all? Both strikers nearly missed those respective games with injuries and both needed a pre-match fitness test.

Joey Jones. What. A. Player.

Listen to those jubilant Wales fans sing - simple, inoffensive cries of "1-0" and "Here we go".

You don't hear songs like that these days.

A more innocent time.