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"Goals from George Eastham and Johnny Byrne gave England a 2-1 half-time lead and Jimmy Greaves wrapped it up in the fifty-fifth minute when he put the finishing touch to a classic five-man move down the right wing involving Milne, Thompson, Byrne and Eastham. Manchester United skipper Noel Cantwell switched from left-back to the middle of the Irish defence in a bid to control Byrne, who was at his brilliant best as he tormented his markers with subtle touches and clever changes of pace. It was not lost on the spectators jammed into Dalymount Park in Dublin that their defence was being tormented by a player with strong Irish ancestry. Tony Waiters, a lifeguard on the Blackpool beach when he was not guarding the Blackpool goal, played the first of his five England games at the back of the England defence."
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00:05Error. On the right, take the field against England at Daly-Mount Park.
00:0845,000 people see Noel Cantwell begin the game in the right way for Ireland by winning the toss.
00:14Everybody on the ground, the English team especially, knows that it's always a tough match meeting Error in their own
00:18country.
00:19Johnny Byrne puts his white-shirted English teammates in action.
00:33England click into form. Byrne shoots and Noel Dwyer can't completely get the ball away.
00:38It goes to George Easton and it's a goal for England.
00:47Ireland do everything they can to hit back. The opportunity is thrown away by poor finishing.
00:52Waiters is in trouble in the English goal.
00:56England attack again and it's a real goal-mouthed scramble.
00:59The ball goes to Byrne. Another goal for England.
01:08Now Ireland has set themselves. Cantwell's header is only a little off the target.
01:15Playing up to international form, centre-forward Johnny Byrne gets in another shot but doesn't have any luck.
01:23Error's persistence is rewarded just before half-time.
01:25Right-half Freddie Strayen gives Waiters no chance.
01:31Error one, England two at half-time.
01:34The Irish are one goal down, a deficit they're confident they can soon remedy.
01:41In the England goal, Waiters makes Balaam shoot wide.
01:47A shot by Greaves doesn't worry Noel Dwyer.
01:54England try again and once more it's the irrepressible Jimmy Greaves on the warpath.
01:58Goal!
02:06Ireland are now two goals in arrears, though they're anything but downhearted.
02:09There are misses on both sides in plenty.
02:12Near the close, Greaves fails with a header.
02:17At the end, it's England three, Ireland one.
02:20A sporting game enjoyed by all.
02:22A sporting game enjoyed by all.
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