England 0-2 Rep of Ireland

[CHARMAC]

I just thought I'd give this a little plug and so it's never forgotten
England 0-2 Rep of Ireland (goodison park 1949) becomming the first foreign country to defeat England on home soil :)
http://www.toffeeandtayto.com/IrelandvEngland_1949.htm

Have a listen to the bised commentary on this at the bottom of the page
To view footage of this historic game at Goodison Park, click here - Pathé

[Fowler's God]

Unreal!

[vincenzo]

Great bit of history that:)

[LKDAVE]

Great post CHARMAC, I threw it up on ybig.ie and hopefully they'll do a piece on it for the Italian game on Oct 10th in their fanzine. Its as big a date as Jun 12th 1988 as far as I'm concerned.
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[Niall]

Just after seeing this thread now. I remember the man who scored the second goal that day (Peter Farrell) really well. He managed my dad at TEK (Lenister Senior League) back in the 70's. The man was a living legend. He was born and bred in Dalkey. As a kid i remember he used to always ask us who scored the quickest goal in a Merseyside derby to which we replied Peter Farrell and he'd rub his hands and smile saying correct!!!!! Everton were his one and only my dad told me. He used to walk the length and breath of the borough of Dunlaoghaire day in day out calling in to people he knew. Used to see him most days coming home from school. Afaik they named a street after him in Liverpool either Farrell's Drive or Close. He was actually interviewed playing golf with Con Martin the day of the Ireland England game in 88 on RTE. I had the tape and now can't find the dam thing. Raging i am. One night he went to some awards in the Shelbourne with TEK players and couldn’t find his car afterwards. They searched Dublin for the car and he even rang his wife saying Mabel have you my car! They found the car in the end. Turned out it was the onset of Alzheimer's to which eventually took his life. A sad time when he passed away but many great tales which my dad told me since then. One such was a time he managed to get out of the home he was in out in Clontarf and he was found in the middle of the women’s mini marathon walking! LOL The FAI are honouring him with something out in Abbottstown the week of the Macedonia game.

A great man and a nicer man you couldn't have met. They certainly don’t make them like him anymore.

[Paddser]

Just after seeing this thread now. I remember the man who scored the second goal that day (Peter Farrell) really well. He managed my dad at TEK (Lenister Senior League) back in the 70's. The man was a living legend. He was born and bred in Dalkey. As a kid i remember he used to always ask us who scored the quickest goal in a Merseyside derby to which we replied Peter Farrell and he'd rub his hands and smile saying correct!!!!! Everton were his one and only my dad told me. He used to walk the length and breath of the borough of Dunlaoghaire day in day out calling in to people he knew. Used to see him most days coming home from school. Afaik they named a street after him in Liverpool either Farrell's Drive or Close. He was actually interviewed playing golf with Con Martin the day of the Ireland England game in 88 on RTE. I had the tape and now can't find the dam thing. Raging i am. One night he went to some awards in the Shelbourne with TEK players and couldn’t find his car afterwards. They searched Dublin for the car and he even rang his wife saying Mabel have you my car! They found the car in the end. Turned out it was the onset of Alzheimer's to which eventually took his life. A sad time when he passed away but many great tales which my dad told me since then. One such was a time he managed to get out of the home he was in out in Clontarf and he was found in the middle of the women’s mini marathon walking! LOL The FAI are honouring him with something out in Abbottstown the week of the Macedonia game.

A great man and a nicer man you couldn't have met. They certainly don’t make them like him anymore.

Great post Niall! Enjoyed that. Love hearing about auld characters.

[LKDAVE]

Great to see that the FAI are honouring him at the end of the month.

[mickdel]

Suppose to be playin us in a friendly in hte aviva shortly so i heard....

[Niall]

• by Nick Hilton, Liverpool Echo
• Mar 15 2011
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Peter Farrell
PETER FARRELL kept a promise to himself and to Evertonians that continues to have an impact at Goodison more than half a century after he made it.
The hugely popular Irishman was heartbroken about being captain of the Everton side relegated from the First Division in 1950/51 and pledged to lead them back to the top flight.
He did just that in the 1953/54 campaign, when the Blues finished runners-up behind Leicester City.
Team-mate Dave Hickson recalled Farrell’s determination to put Everton back where they belonged.
“I was in the army when Everton were relegated and joined them as a Division Two team,” Hickson explained.
“Peter Farrell was the captain and there was never a bigger Evertonian than him.
"I think he felt partly responsible for the relegation and he was so happy when we were promoted again.”
Everton have not dropped outside the top flight ever since and the tough but quietly spoken Farrell is among the most fondly remembered of past players.

Farrell said after promotion was achieved: “We have no star man. Our success has been due to all-round work as a team and with such a great bunch of colleagues, my job as captain has been made easy.”
Farrell was born in Dalkey near Dublin in 1922, but his father was a Liverpudlian who crossed the Irish Sea to work and raise a family.
Farrell played his football with Shamrock Rovers during the years of the Second World War and joined Everton in 1946.
He was part of a £10,000 double signing with Shamrock team- mate Tommy Eglington who also became a highly regarded player at Goodison.
Eglington was a forward, Farrell one of the finest wing halves to emerge from Irish football. Both would play more than 400 games for the Blues and move on to Tranmere.
Farrell’s first goal at Goodison was not scored for Everton, however, but for an Irish side that beat England 2-0. Thus Ireland became the first overseas team to beat England on English soil.
Farrell was made captain in the 1948/49 season and two years later Everton slid towards the drop after losing 12 of their opening 18 games. A draw in the final fixture at Sheffield Wednesday would have kept them up but they were beaten 6-0. Wednesday also went down.
Hickson, the centre forward from Ellesmere Port, remembers Everton went back up on the strength of a powerful record at Goodison.
“I think we only lost a couple of games that season and there were some big wins,” said Hickson. “An incredible match with Plymouth which we won 8-4, just three days after we’d beaten Brentford 6-1!”
Farrell made his last appearance for Everton against Bolton in the final game of the 1956/57 season.
The following October he moved across the Mersey in a £2,500 deal to become player-manager of Tranmere Rovers, where he once again teamed up with Eglington.
Farrell was a success at Prenton Park. Many Rovers fans reckon the football played by Farrell’s teams, with its influence drawn from the Everton “School of Science”, was the best ever seen at Prenton Park.
The Wirral public lapped it up. Average home attendances during Farrell’s time as manager rose to just under 12,000 in one season, a club record.
Farrell left Tranmere in 1960 and went on to manage Sligo Rovers and St Patricks Athletic in Ireland and Holyhead Town in North Wales. He later set up an insurance business in the Dublin area.
He died in Dalkey in 1999.


Read More http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/everton-fc/everton-fc-news/2011/03/15/shamrock-scousers-everton-fc-hero-peter-farrell-s-promotion-vow-100252-28335679/3/#ixzz1GfJeiwDW

[Niall]

The road that was named after him was Farrell's Close and it's in either Littherland Liverpool or Birkenhead.

[LKDAVE]

Good article that.

[Niall]

Did some research and found this about the road. At the time of a new estate being built in the early fifties the Liverpool Council named a road after both the Everton and Liverpool captains at that time Peter Farrell and Billy Liddell , Liddell Way and Farrell Close in Littherland Liverpool. Might head out the next time i am over.

[Paddser]

Always thought it was named after Gerry for being the first ever Chairman of the Irish Branch of the Spirit of Shankly.

You learn something new every day.

[reddy]

Litherland brings back memories for me . My old mate Peter -RIP my friend - had Aunts and Uncles in Croxteth Avenue and they would look after us when we traveled over as young lads . Fondest memories of Litherland and Seaforth/ford.
The Evies do have strong connections with here all right and I like it that stuff like that is remembered . And we were the first to beat the "Auld Enemy" in their own gaff ???:D:D:D.