But given last week’s news of the FAI’s €55 million debts and its possible demise, this folly would barely make the top five list of Irish football fiascos. How innocent the League of Ireland was in its decision to accept the friendly invitation is an open question, though. Were they ignorant that the then Libyan leader Col Muammar Gadafy supplied the Provisional IRA with huge numbers of arms? “I duly was able to negotiate the lads’ release,” remembers Kerr of players incarcerated for drinking. The final score, following a game played on such coarse material it gave the players carpet burns, was a 1-1 draw.

Source: Libya Today December 09, 2019 22:30 UTC