World Cup 2002

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They were a decent team but if truth told probably overachieved .

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Your problem here is you are using the Premier League as a yardstick for International Football.

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I failed to consider all the La Liga and Seire A players Ireland had at the time too

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An understandable oversight.

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The Cameroon side Ireland disposed of in the knockout stages had plenty of regulars in the EPL/Serie A/La Liga and Ligue 1.

Ireland never produced a player as good as Eto’o in that time for example and you can include Roy Keane in that too.

That Irish team were better without Roy Keane.

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Cameroon have a better WC pedigree than Republic of Ireland . We have no divine right to beat them .

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Ireland drew with them 1-1 in the group stage

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Cameroon were eliminated at the group stage. Ireland advanced.

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It was a very poor World Cup all round in fairness.

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It did however give us one of RTÉ’s all time greatest montages, aided wonderfully by Feeder.

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Really? They haven’t got out of a group since 1990. Fair enough they’ve qualified more than ireland have but they’re a powerhouse in African qualifying. Ireland aren’t in the top 10 in Europe. By a big stretch

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Desperate poor. Probably one of, if not the worst, in living memory.

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Teams like Korea, Turkey, USA and Senegal going deep into the tournament and none of them did anything before or since. And the final decided by an Ollie Kahn blunder.

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Fucking hell, we really should have bate the bollocks off Cameroon. We could have come out top of the group and walked it to a World Cup Final like Germany did.

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What’s this based on? They qualify more but they’ve gotten no further than the groups on 6 of the 7 times they’ve bee there.

We’ve gotten out of the group every time we’ve been in it

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Qualification achieved more often and probably more memorable games to the average punter . To be honest I thought they made the knock outs at least twice but there you go .

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I forgot how Duffer was almost untouchable in that tournament

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Mourinho finished Duff.

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Destroyed him

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The 2002 WC was all about R9 coming back and dominating the biggest stage of world football after pretty much no football in 2 years and only ever getting to 70% of his peak level.

Great banter too with the hosts.

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