For the weekend that’s nearly in it.

Saturday, October 18, 1980.

Romania gripped by Ceausescu’s austerity policy sent her rugby team to Dublin… to make a good impression.

Kevin Myers wrote in the following Monday’s Irish Times:

“They’re playing very dangerously,” said a woman in the grandstand amid the tinted glasses, fur coats and the havanas, as the Rumanians passed the ball within their own goal area, each looking at it like it was a wrongly addressed letter..

..The crowd applauded the visitors warmly, perhaps an indication of a wish for them to enter the International Championship. If they do, it must be RTÉ commentators’ devoutest hope that the Rumanian winger Fuicu, changes his name or is dropped.

Ho, dear me, rugger rout not to hand.

Final score: Ireland 13 Romania 13

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