England have only ever lost to Ireland twice, most recently in 1998, but Goodison Park was left dumfounded in 1949
The Ireland team who beat England in an international friendly in Goodison Park, Liverpool, on September 21st, 1949. Photograph: Daily Mirror/Daily Mirror/Mirrorpix via Getty Imageshave only beaten England twice in the country’s history.
Frank Johnstone, a 20-year-old sports reporter, travelled over to the game on the bus and then the boat to Liverpool. Sitting beside him would be Shamrock Rovers and Ireland goalkeeper Tommy Godwin, who ended up the hero of the day.Why has Ryan Gravenberch become a key midfield cog for Slot at Liverpool?
“How could we lose with lord on our side?” wrote Johnstone about Carey, the Manchester United right-back who was that year’s football writers’ footballer of the year in England – along with Roy Keane he is the only ever Irish recipient of the award. Jack Milligan of the Daily Graphic wrote: “There will a ‘sack the lot’ campaign after this display of feckless forward play.” John Thompson of the Daily Mirror wrote that “England were pathetic. It was a wonderful Irish triumph and a sad day for England.” The British Pathé reel said of the game “A golden-lined England team, brilliant players that we know them to be, shed their skill and turned a vital international into a kick-and-rush hurley burley.
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