Final Lap: A ‘cultured footballer’, Finn Harps and Derry City folk hero, Eunan ‘Busty’ Blake

If football is played in Heaven, then God is now rubbing his hands, writes Chris Ashmore.

In April 1965, a Spanish national team beat a Derry City Select 3-1 in Madrid in what was effectively a build-up game in advance of the 1966 World Cup.

The following day leading Spanish sports newspaper Marca carried the usual report and reaction, and also published a cartoon which showed a hairy Irishman with a red beard looking down on the injured Francisco Gento.