David Coleman and Barry Davies. The two best commentators, no doubt about it.

Brian Moore and John Motson for good also

The King Of Commentators!! ⚽🙏⚽🙏

i to love and miss davids commentary he was the best

How could you remember it well it was a friendly in 1976! Good memory. I can figure out someone remember stuff from 1994, but 1976, blimey.

It wasnt a brilliant england side, they failed to qualify for the 1978 world cup finals in Argentina.

In my lifetime I can only remember Ireland losing once. I recall several 1-1 draws, and I include the Lansdowne riot one where Ireland were winning 1-0 and good value. I remember this match /\ for it being, I think Charlie George's only cap (criminally - and he was substituted) and Terry Conroy's giant white bandage.

@@Dermot2927 I remember Ireland losing 2-0 to england in 1980, Keegan scoring both goals, and also losing again in a friendly 2-1 in 1985, both games at wembley. But overall our record v England is very good. And of course we are the first country to have beaten England on their own soil way back in 1949 2-0.

@@Dermot2927 Charlie George's perm ?

@@elizajohn5 the 2-0 game at Wembley , can you remember the name of the sub goalie that came on for Ireland that night?

I saw him play in that famous game against the USSR at Dalymount - absolutely tore them apart. But 34 caps and no goals says it all (though he had one infamously disallowed in Sofia by a corrupt referee, which stopped us going to Argentina). The fact that this was against England maybe spurred him on.

y Amstrong? O'Neal

It appears it was Giles who scored the disallowed goal against Bulgaria in June 1977. Heighway only made the cross that led to Giles' goal. Please google "foot ie bulgaria ireland 1977" for an interesting discussion of that match. For some reason, I'm not able to post the link myself.

@@josegaston1257 Gerry Armstrong y Martin O'Neill jugaron con Irlanda del Norte. En este partido jugaba la República de Irlanda, el equipo del lado sur de la frontera que separa Irlanda en dos países.

Ireland back then were like Wales (up til recently!) They had some world class players (Heighway Liam Brady Stapleton as Wales had Giggs Hughes James) but always failed to qualify for any tournament until Jack Charlton came along. Might have been a psychological thing-or plain bad luck- but Brady and Co I really would have liked to have seen at the World Cup. The list of greats that never played in a WC is quite large

What street?

@@infrasleep Ireland were unlucky not to qualify for the 82 world cup in Spain, questionable refereeing decisions away in Paris and Brussels put an end our hopes.

Steve Heighway

Mick kearns

It's beautiful as is the Irish kit. Love the kits from the 70s/early 80s.

That Admiral kit is the best ever

Gerry daly was some player, vastly underated, a bit of a character as well.

You mean like John Barnes, Raheem Stirling, Owen Hargreaves to name a few Ashling 🙄

Don't think Celtic and Rangers (and even clubs like Aberdeen and Dundee United) would agree with that.

Remarkably his one and only cap for England, he was played out of position and taken off after 60 minutes.

My favourite ever player. So casual and so talented.

Eire was the freestate name. Eireann is the Irish translation of Ireland.I know Fai have Eire on back on team tracksuits now.But thats old school.

Brady Daly Giles And Heighway no bad midfield

I've lived in the UK for 40+ years and I don't take exception to people making errors such as this - there's probably a lot about English history I don't know. I know when malice is intended, but it's usually just lack of knowledge. There was an old postmaster I used to visit, and after a match he'd always ask "How's Irish Free State got on?" in all seriousness (at least he remembered which part of the island I was from, which a lot of people struggle with!). The TV people always used to call it Eire too, to distinguish it from Northern Ireland, which always, during the Home Internationals for example, would be referred to as "Ireland".

@@Dermot2927 It's actually not an error. Eire is not 'the freestate name' but only came into force in 1937. Arguably the correct name for the country as Irish is the first official language of the state. Ireland only known as Republic of Ireland in football terms due to FIFA insisting they adopt this name when both North and South contested the 1950 World Cup...

@@dazza4345 And what exactly does that digression have to do with Richard Sharpe´s point that the Irish performance merited a win that evening? Please stick to the topic of the thread...

Thanks!

Anyway, Mick Kearns of Walsall was the Irish goalkeeper.

Mick

Mick Kearns in goal for Eire who played most of his club football with Walsall fc.

Heighway was born in Dublin.

Get your facts right. Born in Dublin. Of recent English players, Butcher, Barnes, Sterling, Hargreaves were not born in England

Where was Terry Butcher born?

Heighway was born in Dublin until his family moved to Yorkshire. He was always Irish so get your facts right 'Hun'?

Singapore.