Ireland’s class will be hard to overcome

PETER JACKSON
THE MAN TRULY IN THE KNOW

IF ONLY Wales could take an old leaf out of the record book and make history repeat itself, Ireland in Dublin would cease to be Mission Impossible. It would make next Saturday more like the first international Saturday staged by the Liffey, when the visitors came armed with their own referee brazenly defying their hosts not to notice two major impediments over the Welsh official’s impartiality.
As secretary of the nascent Welsh Football Union, Richard Mullock took to the field at Lansdowne Road to ensure fair play while doubling up as the Welsh tea...

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