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The 1972–73 British Home Championship international Home Nations football tournament was, like its predecessor in 1972, a victim of The Troubles in Northern Ireland which had erupted following Bloody Sunday the previous year. As with the previous year in the rugby union 1972 Five Nations Championship, threats were made by Republican activists against visiting British teams, which in this year meant England and Wales. To prevent violence but keep the tournament running, Northern Ireland's "home" games were transferred to Goodison Park, the home of Everton F.C. in Liverpool in England. This step meant that Ireland played just a short ferry ride from Belfast (where the match was originally scheduled) in a city with a substantial Irish population, but where the police were able to exercise a g

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  • British Home Championship 1972/73 (de)
  • 1972–73 British Home Championship (en)
  • Torneo Interbritannico 1973 (it)
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  • Die British Home Championship 1972/73 war die 78. Auflage des im Round-Robin-System ausgetragenen Fußballwettbewerbs zwischen den vier britischen Nationalmannschaften von England, Nordirland (bis 1949/50 Irland), Schottland und Wales. Nordirland verlegte seine Heimspiele aufgrund der Unruhen infolge des Bloody Friday während des Nordirlandkonflikts von Belfast nach Liverpool. (de)
  • Il Torneo Interbritannico 1973 fu la settantasettesima edizione del torneo di calcio conteso tra le Home Nations dell'arcipelago britannico. Anche quest'anno, come nell'anno precedente, non fu disputata nessuna partita in Irlanda a causa del Bloody Sunday. Il torneo fu vinto dall'Inghilterra. (it)
  • The 1972–73 British Home Championship international Home Nations football tournament was, like its predecessor in 1972, a victim of The Troubles in Northern Ireland which had erupted following Bloody Sunday the previous year. As with the previous year in the rugby union 1972 Five Nations Championship, threats were made by Republican activists against visiting British teams, which in this year meant England and Wales. To prevent violence but keep the tournament running, Northern Ireland's "home" games were transferred to Goodison Park, the home of Everton F.C. in Liverpool in England. This step meant that Ireland played just a short ferry ride from Belfast (where the match was originally scheduled) in a city with a substantial Irish population, but where the police were able to exercise a g (en)
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