Two books would suggest so
Poor Cody throwing himself on the ground.
1990 Eamon Dunphy was ashamed of Ireland’s performance agin Egypt
Weren’t we all!
You hardly remember that?
30 years since I first went to a nightclub. Drank a few bottles of miller and celebrated Ray Houghton’s winner. 30 years and a day since I finished my junior cert.
Were the bouncers on strike along with the bar staff?
I was working in a West Cork hotel. It was hosting an AA convention. They had a huge screen brought into the ballroom for the game. I snuck in to watch the game there along with 1 or 3 other staff. The air was heavy with cigarette smoke and the bar men were busy refreshing coffee. There was a 24 coffee dock during the convention for the weekend. Ray unknowingly caused many AA’s slip back a few steps that day. We had great fun
If you were 18 in it you were old
20 years ago today Czech Republic beat Netherlands 3-2 in one of the best games of football ever played
My favourite ever game .
“The gentleman in the yellow hat exists nowhere in the firmament of international football.”
Be wrong let it pass. This edit is superb.
https://twitter.com/stusfootyflash/status/1805481063705149581
Quarter final of a world cup, a fanny hair away from the last 4 in Europe 2 years before…fuck me how far we have fallen.
Or how high we soared.
We had an excellent manager who knew how to get the best out of a once in a century bunch of players.