catcherintherye
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It is true. No Catholics allowed there until the 80's. Second last club to change that rule behind Rangers. What an honour for them.
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It is true. No Catholics allowed there until the 80's. Second last club to change that rule behind Rangers. What an honour for them.
JAYTALITY
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That is absolutely shocking that I'm learning this now. I'm from Dublin it has more Liverpool fans than Liverpool ffs. That's a slam dunk in terms of piping them down. That is the ultimate weapon. I hope it's true.
peteblue
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I'm not sure about the dates, but the RS were always the Protestant team.....
JAYTALITY
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I knew of that but not playing Irish Catholics is up till 80's that's next level discrimination stuff against the Legion of Liverpool fans over here. Remarkable.
http://www.soccer-ireland.com/liverpool/irish-footballers/
There was someone in the 1910's but then a gap to Steve Heighway in 1970
There was someone in the 1910's but then a gap to Steve Heighway in 1970
JAYTALITY
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Well there was a whole host of players sailing over from Belfast all the way through the 20th century but non from Dublin. Fairly self explanatory I think.
I would seriously doubt they had a no Catholic policy as such.
Kevin Keegan was definitely Catholic, educated by the nuns in Doncaster.
I am pretty sure Tommy Smith is Catholic as well though I wouldn't bet on it.
It is Irish Catholics they never signed directly from the auld sod.
Lish Scott was an Ulster Prod and Steve Heighway was brought to England as an infant.
Ronnie Whelan appears to have been the first taig they fetched over from Ireland.
Only one from Belfast thst I know off.
Elisha Scott.
But he was a Prod so would not have fit the bill for exclusion.
Which us ironic as Lish went back to Bekfast and became reviled as a traitor among Protestanf Linfield fans when he became the manager of the Catholic team, Belfast Celtic and remained so for many years after they were forced out the Irish League due to sectarian violence.
You guys need to trumpet that fact to Irish RS.
I do every time I am over in Ireland
The significance of that date is in 1910 the whole of Ireland was still in the UK.
After partition and the setting up of the Republic seems to have been the starting point.
And you cannot really include Stevie Heighway as he had been in Engkand since he was about two year kid or sommat, spoke with a thick northern English accent and they signed him from Skem.
They probably never knew what he was lol
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City v Liverpool final then.
no it isn't; file under urban myth. People might assume this based on rangers and celtic and based on the city having large representations of both factions but all it is false logic.
And is why this sort of stuff has to be regularly jumped on and squashed. There's enough trouble in the world without making up more
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