In one of the best games of the tournament, Ireland came from behind to batter Spain with Damien Duff in particular, a star of the show. Robbie Keane scored from the spot in the last minute to level and make up for Ian Harte’s earlier miss. But heartbreak came in the shoot-out.
He’s back. After a decade of railing against a host of Irish football’s inadequacies; the blazers, the players, even the fans; Roy Keane has jumped the fence, baby! Diarmuid O hAinle, author of It Started with a Handshake, reacts to the Corkman’s return and says Keane owes us one.
Brother against brother, father against son, mother against daughter, Mick against Roy. Ten years on, we revisit Irish football’s Civil War. Coming this week on Póg Mo Goal.
Ten years on from Saipan; the Republic of Ireland are set to use training facilities rejected by two competing nations. James Clancy writes this time, unlike 2002, everyone in the Republic of Ireland playing set-up wants to be there.
… in Table Football. Matt Holland relives his stunning strike against Cameroon at World Cup 2002. Sticking rigidly to a four-four-two formation, the former Ireland midfielder recalls the moment he struck to level our first game the last time we graced a major finals. Despite losing teak-tough captain Roy Keane, replacement Holland, in an uncanny resemblance to our current wooden midfield, had the ball laid to him on a plate and he stabbed it home like a hot knife through butter.
Kilbane scores in the shoot-out as Huddersfield make the League 1 play-off, making up for two howlers here
