{"id":26769,"date":"2025-04-17T06:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26769\/"},"modified":"2025-04-17T06:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T06:04:08","slug":"fa-delays-decision-on-england-vs-northern-ireland-match-in-belfast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/26769\/","title":{"rendered":"FA Delays Decision on England vs Northern Ireland Match in Belfast"},"content":{"rendered":"

April 17 1975<\/b><\/p>\n

ENGLAND\u2019S possible return to Belfast for a home international against Northern Ireland still hangs in the balance.<\/p>\n

After a three-hour meeting of the FA executive \u2013 attended by the Minister of Sport Denis Howell \u2013 it was announced yesterday by secretary Mr Ted Croker that \u201cno decision has yet been reached\u201d whether to play Northern Ireland in Belfast on May 17.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere is certain other information we require. We want to allow a few more days to see which way the situation develops\u201d, Mr Croker said.<\/p>\n

\"Charity<\/a>\"Has<\/a><\/p>\n

Mr Croker put forward the possibility that the executive committee could finally decide to go ahead with the match and leave the decision as to whether they would play in Belfast up to the players themselves.<\/p>\n

While the English team played Northern Ireland in Belfast in May 1975, Scotland refused to do so, only playing in Northern Ireland from 1980 onwards. The Northern Irish team ultimately played ten \u2018home\u2019 games in Britain from 1972 to 1978 due to civil unrest.<\/b><\/p>\n

***<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cPerfidious Albion\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

Sir \u2013 I would like to reply to \u201cOld Republican\u201d whose letter was published in the \u201cIrish News\u201d of April 9. \u201cOld Republican\u201d despite his age is very na\u00efve regarding what passes for politics in this political area.<\/p>\n

He should surely know by now that you cannot make any inroads or impact in this antediluvian wilderness.<\/p>\n

We know only too well what Britain and her pseudo-loyalists think about the Nationalist minority. Joe Devlin, for example, pandered in that direction, promising, inter-alia, Home Rule and homes for heroes for fighting Britain\u2019s wars. The only homes the unfortunate heroes received were in Milltown Cemetery.<\/p>\n

The enlightened minority are well aware of Perfidious Albion by now and know her Machiavellian proclivities. Constitutional methods have all failed signally and will continue to do so ad infinitum.<\/p>\n

The area is so gerrymandered that the minority have no chance whatsoever. No matter what initiatives are made by them they are spurned by the intransigent usurpers.<\/p>\n

The SDLP have produced no earth-stopping achievements and are looking upon as political sycophants.<\/p>\n

Letter from Brendan McAllister asserting that you can never trust the British and anyone who has done so, such as Joe Devlin, has only tarnished their reputations.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 17 1975 ENGLAND\u2019S possible return to Belfast for a home international against Northern Ireland still hangs in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26770,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5008],"tags":[748,393,4884,16265,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-26769","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-england","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-on-this-day","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114351798339253777","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26769\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}