Cigarettes and Samba

Published: July 12, 2019, noon

The Irish soccer team\u2019s 1982 tour of South America during the Falklands War was a farcical episode in Irish sport. 4 games, 3 defeats, 2 cancellations. But how did half the squad end up being detained by armed police? And how did a carpet salesman from Limerick end up sitting in the cigarette smoke and samba of Brazil\u2019s 1982 World Cup Squad? (2019)


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