Some good Irish players on the field there.
Jimmy Holmes; A very good player for Spurs . He broke his leg a few years after this and he was never the same player afterwards. Which was a big loss to Spurs and Ireland.
Giles, Brady ; Well everybody knows about those two, Brilliant.
Steve Heighway ; Great Player for Liverpool. I don’t think he always got the credit he deserved for being part of that Great Liverpool Team.
Don Givens; Had a great few years for QPR and Ireland.
Ray Treacy; Maybe not top quality but I’d say he’d give you a days work marking him and him marking you !
Paddy Roche was a young goalkeeper trying to make the Grade at Man Utd but he dropped some clangers and his career sort a petered out after that. He played well that day for Ireland.
Joe Kinear had a great game against Oleg Blokhin (?) in that match. Blokhin was a big star for Russia. Yet to my mind he never quite produced what we were always told he could do. Still Good though.
Paddy Mulligan and Mick Martin; Give it all Type Fellas and who doesn’t need those.
I never saw much of Terry Mancini. Obviously he wasn’t going to take any messing from the Russian. Its very hard not to call him Henry Mancini and attempt to say something smart !
Had we got lets say five years together, of the Best of Brady and the Best of Giles we would have had some midfield. I suppose that would have been too much for the Gods to give to a small Country like Ireland at the same time ! !
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