Match Summary

England Team

Ireland Team

A POOR GAME

England beat Ireland at Blackpool yesterday by one goal to nothing in the forty-sixth International match between the two countries. It was a poor game, and there was never the likelihood of another goal being scored.

A fierce wind that lashed up angry white horses on the sea front was warded off from the ground by a great protecting stand, but at times came in gusts round the corners and took the ball away where it was not intended to go. Half an hour had elapsed before England scored the only goal of the first half, and that would not have been gained but for a slip by the Irish defence. In trying to kick clear a centre from Cunliffe, on the left wing, Scott, the Irish goalkeeper, miss-kicked, and the ball went straight to the right foot of Barclay, who had no difficulty in scoring...

It was well that England had a goal to their credit, for no one looked like getting another if he played till Doomsday. - The Times - Tuesday 18th October, 1932

 

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 17 October 1932 that an unemployed 31-year-old Sunderland welder, Thomas Howard strangled his 27-year-old wife, Florence. Less than four weeks later, he was found guilty of her murder and sentenced to death, though the jury had recommended mercy. Immediately after the attack, Howard had tried to get a neighbour to call an ambulance. Fifty thousand people signed a petition appealing for his reprieve, but two days after abandoning his appeal, and eleven days before the date of his execution, the Home Secretary, John Gilmour, commuted the sentence to life imprisonment.

Source Notes

Northern Ireland's Footballing Greats
Original Newspaper Reports
Original Autograph Sheet
TheFA.com
Rothman's Yearbooks
FA Yearbooks 1950-60
Ancestry.com
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