Ken Early: Still the football goes on, but Ireland’s woes must end in Greece EURO2024
A Greek journalist at the stadium on Thursday explained: “It’s not so hot for the national team here. Panathinaikos yes, national team no. I expect 10,000 maybe, 20,000 would be amazing. It’s Friday night. You can go to see Greece and Ireland. Where’s the football?”
Poyet’s “if we build it, they will come” attitude contrasted with Kenny’s frequent statements that the Ireland fans are excited by the fact that building or rebuilding is under way. Here again he spoke of the great “affinity” the fans have with the team, an affinity which continues to thrive despite being starved of results and points on the board.
Kenny, as ever, took a more optimistic line. “It’s only the second game in the group, I don’t think anything is decided so early.” Has he already forgotten what happened in our last qualifying group? Losing the opening two matches against Serbia and Luxembourg meant that Ireland’s Qatar campaign blew up on the launch pad. Follow
Playing well and losing is getting boring. “You can see the team is getting better,” Kenny said at the stadium on Thursday. “That was evident in our previous game against France. That was a strong performance in that game.”
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