For the weekend that’s nearly in it.
Saturday, January 29, 1972.
The final 5 Nations game between France and Ireland to be staged at Stade Colombes, Paris.
The championship that never was.
Five new Irish caps, all fine, young, inordinately hairy men, They heaved against the veterns de rugby francais and gritted it out for an historic and most unlikely victory (France 9 Ireland 14).
Paul McWeeney writing in the following Monday’s Irish Times said:
It was a sobering thought before the match, when asked if I had ever seen Ireland win at Colombes, to realise that, in fact, only myself and one or two other of my British press colleagues had ever had the pleasure, nor was I all that optimistic that I would ever see it again.
Puissant!
Previously: Frogger 1983
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