Poor decision to start Coleman on him, even poorer to wait so long to make a switch. Coleman was out for months after some tramp from kildare raked his studs down the back of his leg, left him needing internal and external stitches. Completely unprovoked, off the ball etc. I think that was his first game back. Never the same footballer after it.
Watching a minor classic here. Waterford v Cork Munster SHC SF 2007. Cork without The Rock, Sean Og and Donal Og because of the kerfuffle against Clare. The authorities were very vindictive against this Cork team.
Brian Murphy was sick and for the only time in his career was savaged by Mullane. Dan had savage quick hands.
4-8 to 2-8 half time.
Enjoying watching Joe Deane taking frees lhot off his right side.
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Had the hurley caught wrong.
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Eire v Sasana, Italia ‘90 on TG4 now.
The windy conditions not suiting Ireland’s ball players.
Amazing the backpass rule lasted so long
When was it introduced? It was gone by the ‘94 World Cup anyway.
Think it was gone by the time the Premier League started in ‘92.
1992 . It utterly finished Pat Bonner . He lost huge confidence when the rule changed
These games would be better served by a highlight and anecdotes show
The total lack of atmosphere is the most noticeable thing here.
And loads of empty seats in the stands.
Not sure when exactly it went but it was because of Italia 90 wasn’t it?
The off side rule should go next.
England were seeded and put on the island to offset the risk of violence. Crowds were restricted
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That was the straw broke the camel’s back
Ah that was a sweet finish by Sheedy.
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30 years ago flights to Italy wouldn’t have been cheap either, relative to the economic situation of the average person at the time?
100pc. Even just showing the analysis. Maybe they did? I couldn’t watch much of it. A replay of a really shit full soccer match is tough to sit through
A “Kiely’s of Donnybrook” tricolour in the crowd there 
Probably but the key thing was the crowd in Sardinia was restricted . England were top seed in that group and the crowds were restricted to allow police handle the trouble .