Republic of Ireland 1-1 England (1990) ECQ

Looking back almost exactly 23 years to highlights of England's tough looking European Championship qualifier away to Republic of Ireland in November 1990. On a windy afternoon, David Platt gives England the lead before Tony Cascarino equalises for the home side as the match ends in an almost inevitable 1-1 draw (the second of three such scorelines in less than a year between the sides!). Includes a post-match interview with England manager Graham Taylor and some analysis from the following Saturday's edition of Saint & Greavsie.

[@paddypenman2682]

RIP Graham Taylor

[@SuperTed19021]

*Great club manager!* Especially for Watford. Lovely guy also. Just couldn't manage the poison-chaliced "Impossible Job".

[@anthonybailey1966]

@@SuperTed19021 Did very well for the Villa too.....we remember him fondly!

[@shanet5604]

Disgraceful how the English media treated that man…

[@asd36f]

The 2nd of three consecutive 1-1 draws between these two teams between June 1990 and March 1991.

[@dt7449]

That end with the Cascarino goal, some sight that is 🙌🏽

[@tombarryantik7115]

RIP Jack Charlton

[@haroldkane9714]

Great equaliser from Anthony

[@nicolavivarelli4127]

Great game and fantastic atmosphere !

[@mrkipling2201]

Brilliant atmosphere!!

[@haroldkane9714]

Republic had England's number from the 80s and 90s

[@nickycotton6137]

Good ole Cascarino's 'barnett' to the rescue, but great Staunton pass and Greavsie was right about that Platt goal! 3-4 players did the job there tbf

[@johndavid2204]

Ah Jesus I was cycling up the hill home from school taught we lost some one roared out of a car cascarino scored I peddled home like a lunatic to see the goal great days 💥🇨🇮😬👍

[@jbdublin9994]

Did u live in the Ivory coast 😂

[@cathalmcwilliams3033]

@@jbdublin9994 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@GodOfVictory501]

Back when Lansdowne had a bit of atmosphere.

[@eoghancallaghy3756]

Robot Lover has it gone down hill since the Aviva opened? I was home from the states to see the last Germany game and I thought the atmosphere was great. Still, the old landsdown Rd was a great venue. Nothing fancy or pretty about it, just good times.

[@GodOfVictory501]

The last Germany game was a great occasion - you picked a good one for your return. Apart from that though the atmosphere usually feels quite sterile compared to old Lansdowne (in my opinion).

[@IAidox]

It's a different type of crowd these days, that's the problem. Too many FAI season ticket D4 wankers acting like rugby fans, what's next? Giving it the big ssssshhhhh on free kicks or something, fuck off! Let all the locals in for free if you want a bit of atmosphere.

[@barryb90]

It's absolutely horrible now man, The small away stand drowns out the home fans.

[@i_know_youre_right_but]

Same as Wembley, it's been taken over by the middle class now

[@damobrien3068]

Ah the old Wednesday afternoon qualifiers. I was at this with my late dad. There was a very tense atmosphere in Dublin that day. Not helped by the fact SF were having a protest march.

[@mickharrison9004]

I was there, running battles after the match, didn't help had to wait hour and half for ferry, a few of our fans sadly got hurt and went to hospital.

[@Smudgeroon74]

@@mickharrison9004 What happened, who hit who first?

[@mickharrison9004]

@@Smudgeroon74 the story is early morning on match day when England fans arrived in Dublin, all was well and pubs were open at 6 am lol, didn't hardly see many Irish fans, or the celtic crew before the game, but after the match totally different, I never went back to the pub after match, i went to the big bus station get a cup of tea and something to eat, but within minutes the Irish fans were pooring into the bus station and attacking any England fans on site, 3 attacked me i had a go with them and got a sore face left on the floor, they just carried on attacking England fans, they hit first is the answere, and then after an hour it was time to get on the ferry, that's when I heard what had happened to England fans that went back to the pubs, we're attacked with bottles, iron bars, and like i said before quite a few England fans didn't make it back on the ferry, they were in hospital, and that's when I heard this cockney firm going on there will be big retribution about it, and was no surprise when we played em in that friendly in Dublin after it there was riots by England fans.

[@Smudgeroon74]

@@mickharrison9004 Alcohol is always a factor in football violence. It's a dangerous drug and and can turn the most placid men into raving demonic lunatics. So I'm guessing there was probably trouble at the 2 previous games between both teams in 1976 and 1980. 1 was played at Wembley and was a 2 nil result for England and the other was a 1-1 draw.

[@Smudgeroon74]

@@mickharrison9004 The way you're describing what happened, as if it's all the fault of the Irish supporters. Everybody and his dog knows the Irish fans have a good nature and would never go looking for trouble, unless provoked like anybody they will defend themselves. I've looked at a couple of newspaper reports on-line from both of the matches at Wembley and Dublin in 1990 and 1991 and it was very different from the way you're describing events.

[@LongevityMUFC]

hi, have you got the full version of saint and greavsie available to upload?

[@alastairsaint9631]

Think this match was on tv on a schoolday during the day.Remember the physics teacher turning on the tv just as the republic scored.I knew its was going to be downhill from italia 90 from that point on.

[@thecolonel4869]

I met Tony Cascarino at an event in London last week and chatted to him about that goal. Funnily enough he was a bit unsure which year it was, he thought it was 1992 (maybe a few beers had been had). Anyway, was very friendly and chatted away about what it was like behind the scenes with the squad. He said that big Jack gave Houghton a right verbal blast at the end of the match for that miss at the end (although I thought Houghton's miss in the return fixture at Wembley in March 1991 was actually worse as he had more time to pick his spot).

[@JSL2000]

Ya it was a dreadful miss and the one which cost us a place in Euro 92.

[@thecolonel4869]

JS2000 Still had time in that campaign to make amends, against the Poles.

[@Smudgeroon74]

@@thecolonel4869 defo, it was the games against Poland which cost Eire their place in Euro '92.

[@rc2869]

@@Smudgeroon74 IIRC Ireland had the better of the 2 away games v Poland and England but won neither.

[@Aerojet01]

The Irish had a great side back then full of brilliant technicians. Drawing against them was actually a good result because both sides were evenly matched. I remember the press hammering England for an under-par performance. Jack Chalton had them playing decent football.

[@SuperTed19021]

Jackie in that campaign just didn't have the right rub of the green! But hey, he got the Irish to qualify for WC 94 whilst we did not.

[@Aerojet01]

@@SuperTed19021 Jackie's long ball system was very effective, especially pumping balls into the penalty area and wearing teams down with non stop pressure. He once said, if he could've selected one player from that England team and he would've picked Lineker. He felt he needed an out and out striker, someone with Lineker's instinctive goal scoring and clinical finishing.

[@shanet5604]

@@Aerojet01 I’ve never read that and that’s got to be a myth,he deserted strikers natural play for what they now call pressing so I’d call bullshit on that pal…

[@newsoundrecords]

Leaving a player like paul gascoigne out of a massive game like this would be unthinkable now

[@mickharrison9004]

Yeah a lot of were looking forward to seeing gazza here.

[@kerrygrace5150]

Gascoigne and platt were too attacking. No defensive midfield cover at all. Needed mcmahons steel. Would be like Scholes /gerrard/lampard all together and no hargreaves or dier

[@annandune]

@@kerrygrace5150 McMahon was overrated. I get what you mean about having someone in that spot but I think he was, at best, the pick of a bad bunch. More to the point, Des Walker appears to have been missing from this side. I can't remember whether he was injured or just fell out of favour but he was the most reliable way of shoring up the defence.

[@thelstanedwardsson4374]

That was Graham Taylor for you. RIP Graham Taylor, nice guy, but useless manager. Undid everything great that Sir Bobby had built (and almost Won the World Cup with).

[@SuperTed19021]

@@thelstanedwardsson4374 I love Bobby to death, but *was* he really in all honesty that perfect? I think it was more down to the players rebelling against his system and the FA overloads that got us to that fabled Turin night. Also, Bobby did the most-best in major tournaments when his favoured player (Bryan Robson) was injured for both Mexico '86 and Italia '90. And believe me, a lot of England managers fall into that *very* trap.

[@Coolbaire]

Neither team has the same quality of player now than they had then

[@jamesburke2094]

spot on

[@xxxXXXCH04XXXxxx]

@@joseparcenary4706 1966, lol...

[@xxxXXXCH04XXXxxx]

@@joseparcenary4706 I can remind you that back in 1966 they were all f**** cheaters

[@andrewyoung1652]

This is the game which signified the transition from World Cup semi finalists to Graham Taylor’s team of complete shite, albeit England had some terrible luck during his tenure. We didn’t recover from this until the Dutch game in 1996

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

I always thought England were very unlucky in the two games against the Dutch in the qualifying group for USA 94, particularly the one in Rotterdam. How Koeman wasn't sent off...

[@brody5211]

Ireland were robbed from qualifying arguably at their peak under Jack here

[@GiveMeAnOKUsername]

What is it about this game that makes you say that?

[@andrewyoung1652]

@@GiveMeAnOKUsername in Taylor’s early games, we were still riding the high from Italia 90. That high came to an end here and the Taylor era began

[@SuperTed19021]

That's true, Andy. England *only* excelled during the semi-final against West Germany at Italia '90. But also, Holland had piss-poor luck in that '93 Rotterdam WCQ match as well as England (a *clear* goal disallowed). The best team in the end won there. Also, it would *never* had got to that point if England had either beaten Norway at home the previous October or not lost to them in Oslo that summer, same with only drawing in Poland also. *Just like* Steve McClaren's horrific Euro 2008 qualifying campaign. How different would things have been if they beat Macedonia at home or Israel away?

[@seamusmeehan6036]

Remember it well watched it in East London in was on early went to pub early in the day great atmosphere great days went so quick

[@jamesburke2094]

the "Pat the Baker" advert board

[@09weenic]

Do you know him personally?😃

[@cathalmcwilliams3033]

I remember watching this game at school.

[@trudeausbackbone1304]

Taylor and Charlton. 2 proponents of agricultural football.

[@seankelly346]

Great goal by cascarino

[@SuperTed19021]

7:51 If *that* would have gone in! ROI would have taken our place in Euro '92 (and maybe not have stuck the place out so much!)

[@johnhastings7841]

Believe it or not - but it's true - this was not shown live on Central (ITV in the Midlands) because they were committed to showing a church service marking the 50th anniversary of the Coventry Blitz & highlights of the match were shown at 8pm. Many viewers in the Central region were still able to watch live coverage by picking up another ITV region.

[@madforit2]

Which I think was correct.

[@kerrygrace5150]

Mick Mccarthy hit the bar from the half way line!!! Chris Woods was tiny

[@davidclarke9783]

The reason Gazza didint get his game was because the Irish players knew him to well they would of wound him up and he would lose it lol

[@rc2869]

He was pissed

[@danielmurray1490]

Did Gordon Cowans start for England here

[@davidcoleman8900]

I dont think rep of Ireland will ever have a team as good as this again Jack Charlton era was the best there best team of all time

[@shanet5604]

Premier League shafted Ireland and the British isles from having the core of talent since…

[@seanbonella]

funfact.... in this campaign, England got to Euro '92, only just as it wasnt a great campaign under Turnip Taylor...but he was found wanting against San Marino for World Cup '94......but we loose a game in our campaign here a game...too many draws. shame it was

[@0898007]

Found wanting against San Marino, won 13-1 over 2 games.

[@Dead-Ball-Situation]

Ah the days when Pat the Baker could advertise at major sporting events.

[@martinoregan3028]

Hopefully we will meet again world cup 2022

[@barnbersonol]

"Irishman" Cazza from Kent met the Irish PM and didn't have a clue who he was!!

[@brody5211]

Hoes the GAA

[@seandoran2209]

Defo pen for Ireland..Today it was a shoe in.

[@r4h4al]

There wasn't enough in it for a pen.

[@SuperTed19021]

Or if someone had taken proper advantage of Pearce's blunder at 7:51.

[@xiropigado]

The referee was about to give a penalty (40 secs) until he realised that Dixon (an Englishman) had pushed Townsend (another Englishman) so no penalty.

[@TheOshman4]

Great to see Gordan Cowans.

[@seanbonella]

don't forget what happened in February 1995 here, hooligans wrecked the place.

[@darren2514fv]

England were very lucky to be in Sweden in 1992 . The Irish had a much better goal difference than England and if England had lost in Poland a month later (Poland were leading 1-0 v England and Ireland and had Lineker not scored the Irish would have qualified on goal difference) The key moment was Ireland away to Poland the Irish were 3-1 up with 15 minutes to go Poland scoring in the 77th and 86th minutes had the Irish won that game England would not have been in Sweden Ireland would have qualified on goal difference

[@brandonwilson2732]

Darren Hayward wow, I never knew that.

[@petemitchel5622]

But you didn't win against Poland so stop rabbiting on about crap.

[@johnoshea470]

We werent unlucky we blew it, we were coasting in poland and stopped playing

[@joseparcenary4706]

That's not luck. Football games are 90 minutes. Just because a team is 3-1 up after 75 doesn't mean they have some divine right to win the game or that it only ended 3-3 because of "bad luck". You could just as quickly point out that England were winning this game 1-0 with 11mins to go and would have had an even easier qualification if they had hung on for the win.

[@mickharrison9004]

They only gave us 5,000 tickets, we'll lucky to get one of them, in the old England travel club.

[@mickharrison9004]

@Eric King yeah if you'd been in Dublin 5 years earlier you would understand why it kicked off.

[@ImNewAndHere2Stay]

We did make Gary Linneker shit himself

[@chrisfallon9678]

Long ball merchants Ireland

[@xiropigado]

Rep of Ireland always dragged England down to their level

[@jonathongates3747]

Pat the baker

[@09weenic]

ENGLAND A team versus the ENGLAND B team

[@xpat73]

Funny that Casacrino should never have been playing for Ireland as we found out later.. He was not qualified.

[@Smudgeroon74]

Grandfather rule. He was good to play

[@xpat73]

@@Smudgeroon74 No he wasn't. He admitted it in his book. He was never qualified to play.

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

@@xpat73 He didn't find out til 1997 though, several years after this game.

[@xpat73]

@@TheLastAngryMan01 ummmm....aren't your supposed to find that out BEFORE you play?

[@TheLastAngryMan01]

xpat73 The reason he found out that he wasn’t qualified to play for Ireland was because FIFA changed their rules. Previously, he was fine to play for Ireland under his British passport, but by 1997 FIFA ordered that international footballers should have the same passport as the national side they represent. Cascarino started the process but then found out that his mother was in fact adopted, meaning he had no blood link to the country and was ineligible to play for ROI. If anything, I would say his relatives should have filled him in on that little detail...

[@bobby5161]

2:50 that would have been some goal

[@seanbonella]

england never bet Ireland under Jack, ill say no more....

[@vipassana3334]

4:01 5:40

[@tomasreily3727]

it was a penalty

[@brandonwilson2732]

The time when Ireland played England every other week.

[@raysharp1969]

I always thought Jimmy Greaves was a fair man, I guess it didn't stretch to giving the Irish credit . According to Greaves, Platt's goal was the only bit of quality football on the day. He definitely wasn't watching the same game that I was.

[@markmcglade8278]

bye bye ireland.

[@onlyweatherlol93]

great goalkeeping ffs how do England concede such an awful goal? A long ball punted in jeez

[@thecolonel4869]

I think Woods was wrong footed.

[@mickharrison9004]

I was there, strange day in the end, great before match, but after match, Irish attacked England fans all over, some with iron bars, a few didn't make it back on the ferry, and Grimley the fa didn't charter a ferry so had to hang around hour and half after match, i think the trouble that day was the catalyst for the riots over here when England played them again, and had to be called off, because of violence, copying the violence from the match before.

[@Smudgeroon74]

The Ireland fans have a good reputation and would never ever attack anybody. If there was any trouble it had to have been provoked.

[@mickharrison9004]

@@Smudgeroon74 was no provacation in the bus station, I'm telling you exactly what happened, though don't forget i said there was some celtic fans down from the North too, but i saw Irish shirts attacking England fans too, its a big bus station in Dublin, i was down at the middle at a cafe, they came in the far doors and again you asked so I'll tell you, they attacked any England fans in sight.

[@Smudgeroon74]

@@mickharrison9004 What happened then?

[@Smudgeroon74]

Suppose the police arrived

[@mickharrison9004]

@@Smudgeroon74 they headed to the other end of bus station, again attacking any England fan, then fkd off out, meanwhile people were licking there wounds and thinking let's get on the ferry home, end of story, apart from the cockney crew on the boat saying some hadn't made it and one day, the Irish would pay big time, and they did with the riots all day at that friendly match called off because of violence, but no surprise to me.

[@markmcglade8278]

bye bye ireland

[@tomasreily3727]

art least england where terrible

[@Suttoner76]

What does an Irishman do when his car runs out of petrol? Gets out of his car and blames Britain.

[@eire3261]

TheProd1991 did you get your Irish passport yet. All the prods are Queuing around the block to get there Irish passports

[@MrBagpipes1971]

Why would we blame Britain? If is not like anyone actually buys British cars now is it?

[@adampeckham8541]

EIRE 32 I'm desperately trying to get one !

[@hensmithers9687]

England 1 England 1

[@bonzodog6872]

Hen Smithers fuck off

[@ImNewAndHere2Stay]

Go back further, it would be Ireland 1 Ireland 1

[@magamaga1827]

back when football was played by men! long balls, crashing bodies. it was a bloodbath.