Ireland: 2 Italy: 1 (1958)

Footage from a qualifying football match in 1958. Italy vs Ireland. Full title reads: “Belfast: Ireland: 2 Italy: 1“ Belfast, Northern Ireland. World Cup qualifying football match. SV teams take the field. GV Crowds. GV Italy to kick off playing from right to left against Ireland. Montuori beats his man and pushes it. LV As Italian rounds R Peacock and crosses into the Goalmouth, but Norman Uprichard dives to save. CU Cheering kids. GV Italy on the move Chiggia flicks it inside. LV Ball goes out and Italian cuts in and shoots, Uprichard blocks the shots and an Irishman heads it behind to the corner. CU Fan behind wire in the crowd. GV Play, Cunningham takes the ball from Da Costa and is passed back to another Irishman who pushes it up. GV Bingham crosses but is blocked and Vincenzi tries to clear but Simpson runs on to it and pushes it across. CU Fans GV McIlroy scores from just outside the penalty area and Ireland are 1 up. GV Hysterical crowd, another goal follows by Cush which we do not see. GV Ball