Larry Ryan: When Ireland’s individualists nudged England off their pedestal

 In 1976 at Wembley, Ireland's moral victory was meant to unlock our gateway to the world. 

Paddy Mulligan gets to grips with Trevor Brooking during the international friendly match bwetwen England and Ireland at Wembley Stadium on September 8, 1976. (Photo by Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

In the well-stocked annals of Ireland’s glorious 1-1 victories over England, one fixture hasn’t endured and magnified in legend as much as some of the others. But it was heralded as loud as any at the time.

It’s 48 years Sunday that Gerry Daly’s second-half penalty leveled his Manchester United colleague Stuart Pearson’s opener in a Wembley friendly.