1972 British Home Championship
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The 1972 British Home Championship was the first such Home Nations football tournament (although not the last), to suffer during The Troubles in Northern Ireland, when death threats from the Provisional Irish Republican Army were sent to the Scottish Football Association and Scottish players who were scheduled to play at Windsor Park. The surge in anti-British feeling which prompted these threats followed Bloody Sunday in January, and also resulted in the cancellation of the rugby union 1972 Five Nations Championship. As a result, Northern Ireland's home fixture was rescheduled to Hampden Park, effectively granting the Scottish team an extra home match. This was not the last time that The Troubles would interfere with the Home Championship; the 1981 British Home Championship would have to be abandoned following similar heightened tension after the death of Bobby Sands.
Scotland used their home advantage well, securing victory over the Irish and Welsh to take a major points advantage into the final match against England, who had lost at home to Northern Ireland following a heavy defeat of Wales. In the last match however, England gained a slight advantage over their old rivals, winning 1-0 and thus equalling the tournament on points and resulting in a shared victory (goal difference was not at this stage used to differentiate between teams). The Welsh salvaged a point in their final home game to Northern Ireland, but still finished bottom of the table.
The points system worked as follows:
Scotland used their home advantage well, securing victory over the Irish and Welsh to take a major points advantage into the final match against England, who had lost at home to Northern Ireland following a heavy defeat of Wales. In the last match however, England gained a slight advantage over their old rivals, winning 1-0 and thus equalling the tournament on points and resulting in a shared victory (goal difference was not at this stage used to differentiate between teams). The Welsh salvaged a point in their final home game to Northern Ireland, but still finished bottom of the table.
Table
| Team | Pts | Pld | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
){kind=small} England | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 1 | +3 |
| Scotland | 4 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 1 | +2 |
){kind=small} Northern Ireland | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -1 |
){kind=small} Wales | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4 | -4 |
The points system worked as follows:
- 2 points for a win
- 1 point for a draw
Results
| May 20, 1972 | |||
| Wales | 0–3 | England | Ninian Park, Cardiff |
| Emlyn Hughes, Rodney Marsh, Colin Bell |
| May 20, 1972 | |||
| Scotland | 2–0 | Northern Ireland | Hampden Park, Glasgow |
| Denis Law, Peter Lorimer |
| May 23, 1972 | |||
| England | 0–1 | Northern Ireland | Wembley Stadium, London |
| Terry Neill |
| May 24, 1972 | |||
| Scotland | 1–0 | Wales | Hampden Park, Glasgow |
| Peter Lorimer |
| May 27, 1972 | |||
| Wales | 0–0 | Northern Ireland | Racecourse Ground, Wrexham |
| May 27, 1972 | |||
| Scotland | 0–1 | England | Hampden Park, Glasgow |
| Alan Ball |
References
- Guy Oliver (1992). The Guinness Record of World Soccer. Guinness. ISBN 0-851129-54-4.
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Scotland
Nickname(s) The Tartan Army[1][2]
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The 1972 Five Nations Championship of rugby union was incomplete, for the first time since World War II. Scotland and Wales refused to travel to Dublin to play Ireland because members of their teams had received anonymous threatening letters, purportedly from the IRA.
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Location Glasgow, Scotland
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Renovated 1999
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The 1981 British Home Championship was the only British Home Nations international football championship outside of the years of the First World War and Second World War which was not completed and thus failed to produce a winner.
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Bobby Sands
Roibeard Gearóid Ó Seachnasaigh
Paramilitary organisation Provisional IRA
Date of birth March 9 1954
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Scotland
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Ninian Park is a football stadium in Cardiff, Wales. Currently, it is the home ground of Cardiff City F.C., a Welsh club that competes in the English Football League Championship.
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City of Cardiff
Dinas Caerdydd
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Constituent country Wales
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Constituent country Wales
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Full name Emlyn Walter Hughes OBE
Date of birth July 28 1947
Place of birth Barrow-in-Furness, England
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Date of birth July 28 1947
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Full name Rodney William Marsh
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