Georgia were a bit lucky there.
World Cup 2018 Qualifiers
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There was the get out of jail card. An actual pass!
Good stuff mate. May your hangover be feather light. Feck McLean should scoredI'm Welsh, the guy I was quoting is Irish, I like Ireland though so I want them to qualify, just not over WalesI'm pretty drunk so if I'm not making sense that's why
Is that Silva in Spain XI David Silva ? Because if this they're playing without a striker at all I suppose.
Georgia don't deserve to drop points here.
Funnily enough, we played long ball tactics during our best ever period as a football nation. Who knows what we could have achieved with better tactics.
There needs to be a clear ethos put in place and a 10 year plan. That requires commitment and good leadership, which we lack.
Northern Ireland, our neighbours, are a good example of what can be achieved with a clever manager who has a clear gameplan.
So false striker for Spain and Insigne plays.
Wales is even much better having a premier league and championship academy and pretty sure welsh kids can join English clubs at any age. Irish kids have to wait till they're 16.
Hah never. Fins are just hanging on playing 10 men behind the ball. Constant attacking with no end product.
Mcgeady... oh no
By 16 we're coached far too many of the wrong things we're playing catch up with the other lads.
Oh c'mon Ireland! You can't waste such a chance!
Crap performance
Georgia deserved to win that.
1-1 FT. Now Ireland must beat Serbia on tuesday.
Hopefully a 1-1 draw between the Welsh and Austria.
Back to school, Iceland.
Bit sorry for ireland fans who made that long and expensive trip.
Iceland lose to Finland
Spain V Italy, looking forward to it, the lineups interesting no striker for Spain, Italy going a possible 4-2-4 shoudl be interesting
Remember well the teams of Euro 88, WC 90, WC 94, and 4 qualifying matches Portugal played to Euro 96 or WC 2002, it is true with Charlton or McCarthy the style was direct but you had much more individual quality, such as Nial Quinn, Roy Keane, Irwin, later Robbie Keane, it was always tough matches to play tbh.
Forgot about Swansea and Cardiff, fair enough, more similar to Northern Ireland.
Was mentioning new talents in Icelandic football
Yes! Win for Finland. Almost as happy to see Iceland lose after their cheating in their home game.
fecking huge result for Austria's slim hopes. Now to get 3 points in Wales.
Wow Cyrus Christie is robbing a living absolutely useless. One of the worst footballers I've seen in a. long time. That aside pretty gutless display by Ireland. Hopefully with Hoolahan back we can do something against Serbia on Tuesday. Really missing Coleman at right back.
Is there a future for international football? Iceland gives you hope I suppose. Oh, and James McClean.
Bad defeat for them in a very tight group.Iceland lose to Finland
No worse than any of the other players on the pitch in green today.
Coleman has been pretty underwhelming in a Irish shirt, to be honest.
Yep, it makes it a lot harder to piggy back off Englands development seen as that is pretty much our only hope. I'm not sure if it really is but it also seems like less irish lads are brought over, by the bigger clubs anyway. They just bring over 16 year olds from mainland Europe.
Just thinking about it now, I'm not sure how it works for the northern kids. Technically Britain is all one country so you'd think they could move to England before 16 but ten I think of Galbraith who we've signed and it seemed like he had to wait till 16. Not to sure.
I'm envious of the norths manager as he seems to get a similarly weak side to play some good and successful football. Just hope we could do the same.
The more Wes Hoolahan doesn't get picked for Ireland, the more determined Dunphy and his legion of listeners seem determined to paint him as some sort of footballing Leonardo Da Vinci.
When he finally does get picked and finishes with a 38% pass completion rate in a nil all draw with Albania I don't know what we're going to have left to complain about.
When he finally does get picked and finishes with a 38% pass completion rate in a nil all draw with Albania I don't know what we're going to have left to complain about.
There are a few but we prefer to give them 90 minutes with the U21 until they are definitely going to start for the NT. The whole current crop (88-93) did that and played a long time together before making the full step up.Was mentioning new talents in Icelandic football
Isn't Iniesta supposed to be bad now?
What cheating, the goal? Wrong call by the ref but it looked like a goal. Iceland is not the team that was diving, time wasting and trying to end careers in the two games.
Yes. The scorer knew goalkeeper had the ball. He had it for some time. And your players were surrounding the referee all the time like Barca ar their worst. Really disappointing to see from a fellow Nordic country.
Go on Tom Lawrence.
It's rare we're I'm actually angry after a game of football. But tonight I have only now relaxed. Shockingly bad from Ireland
I was saying to friends all week though that I saw this as potentially our biggest game. A game you should win but is a proper banana skin. We slipped badly
I was saying to friends all week though that I saw this as potentially our biggest game. A game you should win but is a proper banana skin. We slipped badly
That Croatia XI is sexy as feck.
Barzagli and Bonucci together again after what happened in Cardiff 