TV View: Like Heimir Hallgrímsson, who swapped Finn Azaz for Troy Parrott, RTÉ made a big change for this game by bringing in Ray Houghton for Stephen Kelly as their co-commentator
TV View: Like Heimir Hallgrímsson, who swapped Finn Azaz for Troy Parrott, RTÉ made a big change for this game by bringing in Ray Houghton for Stephen Kelly as their co-commentator
Then they won 3-1 on Sunday evening, so the former future Republic of Ireland gaffer is probably now being hailed as the new Alf Ramsey.Ireland manager Heimir Hallgrímsson in the Georgios Karaiskakis Stadium in Athens on Sunday. Photograph: Nikola Krstic/Inpho The game? Well, it was going grand until Greece broke our resistance not a heap lot longer after the start of the second half, and much as our lads huffed and puffed in search of a leveller, it wasn’t to be. And then Greece scored again, so our winning streak had come to an end.
It was a very tremendous occasion at Croke Park on Saturday, in front of an almighty crowd of 82,000-ish, despite it being a bog-standard early-enough-in-the-season URC encounter. But in fairness to Premier Sports, they didn’t over-hype it. Back on RTÉ, Donncha O’Callaghan was being controversial. “Especially where I’m from, you dream of playing in Croke Park, and if you’re not good enough for that you play rugby,” he said. Jamie Heaslip flinched a little, but the community of Gaels nodded.
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