It looked as though he wasn’t going to get on but as the clock ticked down and coach Lawrie Sanchez saw his side holding onto a 1-0 lead against a poor England side he made a couple of substitutions including Duff for Hull’s Stuart Elliott.
Willie Irvine was a member of the side that last beat England and apart from tat It is well over twenty years since Northern Ireland even scored a goal against England, that coming from another former Claret Terry Cochrane, so it will be a cap to remember for him even though he was on the pitch for no more than two or three minutes.
In the same group
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