I’ll make another compliment for Stephen Kenny, which is that we don’t seem to concede too many goals from set pieces, which is vital in international football.
None.
No big club was after Mick McCarthy from 1996 to 2002.
Stephen Kenny is ours, and he will do it his way. If he is to go down in flames, let him go down in flames playing the way he wants, rather than the way some others want.
We never dare to dream. Let us dream. Let us be hopeful, let us be naive and let us reject cynicism. Let us be wide eyed and child like in our enthusiasm for this team like Andrew Omobamidele’s face after we played Serbia.
This is our team. Let us begin again. Do not strap yourself in for the journey. This ride will be best enjoyed without seat belts. Although probably with face masks.
Are you 21?
The night beyond in Lille was the best night of my life.
Dundalk would most definitely take him back I’d say. A rich man’s Vinny Perth.
When we beat a reserve Italian team?
It’s surprising he’s not more highly rated considering he was successful with both Celtic and Ireland. He should be revered on this island.
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Who let us win.
Best night ever, he’s right. I dislocated my shoulder in the melee after Brady’s goal. The problem was all the pubs in Lille shutting down early.
Most Irish soccer fans are idiots.
The same clowns who ran Dela out of the country.
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It started to get a bit boring when the Irish supporters launched into a 47th straight chorus of The Fields Of Athenry on the concourse of Lille central station after the match. It didn’t stop there either.
It was hardly top 10
1.Robbie Keane vs Germany in 2002.
2. Ray Houghton vs Italy 1994
3. Sheedy vs England 1990
4. Houghton vs England 1988
5. Mcateer vs the Dutch 2001
6. Mcloughin vs Northern Ireland 94 qualifiers
Those are the greatest moments in Irish football. It peaked in 2002. Drunk by first mass.
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There was a middle aged man with wife and kids in tow behind me in the first half of that match who was intent on picking fights over myself and my the two Ireland supporters accompanying me standing up. We said we were standing up because the people in front of us were standing up. That was not enough for him. He continued sitting when the rest of the crowd would stand up and continued being vocally angry.
I grew tired of his behaviour and decided to spend the second half standing on my own in the corridor running along the back wall of the lower tier of the stand, above the corner flag at the end Brady scored at. It was a good decision as it enabled me to sprint 20 yards back and forth along that corridor when the goal went in, like a demented person doing a bleep test or a batsman scrambling to not be run out.
I love sprinting after Ireland score goals in France. When Robbie Keane scored in 2009 I inexplicably sprinted about 20 steps back up the middle tier of the stand.
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He’s from the wrong side of the border sadly for a lot of people. A great man.
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I think you’re the old one rather than him being young mate. You’d have to be mid to late 30s now to have enjoyed 2002
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The Irish crowd were narky as fuck in that game, there was serious tension in the ground. Big release.
I’d possibly put the penos v Romania in!
Quinn v Holland
Cascarino v England
Quinn v England
Robbie brady
Shane long
Bonners save and O’Leary. Yeah there was pandemonium in the estate after that. There were communal street parties with tricolour hats, red lemonade and cheese and onion taytos. 6 hour games of ball pretending to be paul mcGrath
It had been a long day drinking in the sun. The metros were tiny, they were almost like a monorail or something. Security queues to get into the stadium. There was a lot of nark after the match too. Interminable queues to get onto the metro, nothing open in town, a non-existent taxi service and lots of very dodgy looking unofficial taxi men trying to prey on naive youngsters.