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EUROPE’S REVENGE

COLIN ALLAN RECALLS A SPECIAL MATCH IN BELFAST IN THE MID 1950S...

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A SHIRT-SLEEVED crowd of around 65,000 crammed into Belfast’s Windsor Park ground in anticipation of witnessing a feast of football.
It was Saturday, August 13, 1955 and to mark the 75th anniversary of the Irish Football Association, a charity match had been arranged between a Great Britain team and one representing the Rest of Europe.
For such a combination of the four home countries, selection had proved a thorny problem.
As ...

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