World Cup Willys…
#50
Ireland (N)
…& fourth of all through the ‘early doors’ of International Football come storming…
Northern Irish!
the
Main Man…
Their…
John McAlery
…of County Down, in 1878, organises the first Footballing spectacle* to ever be held on Irish soil after returning from a (…hopefully…) happy holiday in Scotland, where he’d just witnessed his first ever Game…
*…The particular spectacle in question, an invitation match between the teams John had witnessed on his Scotch sojurn, Queen’s Park & Caledonian…
Match Report to follow…
…In 1882 he manfully Skippers them through all of Belfast’s many weathers as they take their International Footballing bow - Fair to say, it doesn’t end all that well (…it doesn’t start too well, either & the less said about the middle, the better…)
Ireland
0-13
England
Matches Played:
99
7 Wins
81 Goals
Biggest
3-0
(1914)
Wins 76
Goals 324
Biggest
13-0*
(1882)
*…To this very day the Country’s biggest ever defeat & England’s most emphatic victory, still…
Coulda been worse! —
—& then some!
Football Biggest Wallopings - Coming Soon…
Ireland’s foremost Footballer of the Nineteenth Century, quite clearly head & shoulders above all other contenders, Distillery F.C’s…
Olphert Stanfield
“…the complete Forward, capable of scoring with either foot or his head…”
…finishes Football’s rough & tumble Century of origin as it’s most capped player…
Olphie, between ‘87 & ‘97, aquires a grand total of Thirty of them, all in all, (…a figure that won’t be surpassed until as late as 1911…) & in 1891 finds himself becoming the first Irishman to win the Home Internationals* ‘Golden Boot’…
—The Home Internationals Golden WHAAAT!
—Go with it, Man !
*The British International Championship, 1884/1984
