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- ↑ Match Statistics, The FA.
- ↑ "Northern Ireland all-time cap list Archived 28 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine " (PDF), hnisc.co.uk; accessed 15 February 2021.
- ↑ McCann, Eamonn, War and an Irish Town, 2nd edition, Pluto Press, London, 1980; ISBN 0-86104-302-2, p. 100