Making players stand in for a bit of crystal after they’ve been on the end of a chasing just to satisfy a sponsor is right on the nose for the state in which we find ourselves
Ireland's dejected Will Smallbone after the 0-2 loss against Greece last Tuesday evening at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photograph: Ryan Byrne/Inpho
All they did was not be as useless as their team-mates for 90 minutes and for their troubles, they get to be the first against the wall, facing the nation to try and wrap words around what has just happened And no sooner does the final whistle go but poor Ogbene/Smallbone/Bazunu/Whoever is standing for a photograph with a flunkey from and then turning to Tony O’Donoghue to explain away another terrible result. All they did was not be as useless as their team-mates for 90 minutes and for their troubles, they get to be the first against the wall, facing the nation to try and wrap words around what has just happened.
It’s just so supremely on the nose for the state of everything. Announcing a man of the match in the first place has become a marketing conceit. It’s been a long time since it was an exercise in picking out the best player in the game. It’s purely an opportunity for to get a bit of screen time for their shilling, to grasp a brief bit of the spotlight, a shard of the reflected glory that comes from standing beside an Ireland soccer player.
This is who we are. So much of Irish football is obfuscation, half-truths and accepted fictions. Stephen Kenny was a dead man walking for months but nobody would officially put him out of his misery. Even though the FAI had all that time to line up a replacement, we ended up waiting 231 days for it to happen.
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