When Archbishop McQuaid tried to stop an Ireland match: timely book shows why football can never escape politics
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When Archbishop McQuaid tried to stop an Ireland match: timely book shows why football can never escape politics

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With the upcoming Ireland-Israel matches under scrutiny, ‘Cold War Football’ examines a series of controversial fixtures and how the visit of Yugoslavia to Dalymount in 1955 put Catholic Ireland to the test