“Will it be a tale of goalkeepers?” George Hamilton intones portentously as the camera zooms in on Kasper Schmeichel. George and Ronnie Whelan do their best to hide their astonishment. Still, not much going on in an Ireland match is considerably preferable to Ireland being awful in an Ireland match. “A terrible, terrible decision,” fumes Ronnie, a man who once shared a midfield with Graeme Souness and clearly spent too long there. As if to prove you don’t always get what you’ve fought for, the game is finally broken open in the 73rd minute by Martin Braithwaite.

Source: Irish Examiner November 18, 2019 22:52 UTC