Even ‘the greatest human being on Earth’ couldn’t uplift Ireland against England
TV View: Roy Keane gets stuck into the FAI while Ronnie Whelan learns nothingFive things we learned from Ireland’s Nations League defeat to Englandwasn’t feeling a whole lot more buoyant over on ITV. “What do you make of that Ireland line-up?” Mark Pougatch asked him when the teams were named. Roy gazed upon the graphic for a second. “It’s going to be a big ask,” he concluded.
Speaking of anthems. The worst aspect of the cacophonous booing of God Save Yer Man is that it will launch 100 opinion pieces on how we have yet to grow up as a nation. ITV’s Sam Matterface said that we are merely “separated by a splash of the Irish Sea”, but the psychoanalysis will insist that the chasm is a bit wider than a splash. Fasten your seat belts, it could be a long week.
A greater consolation was that that’s when the scoring ceased, which was a humongous surprise. By 2-0 we’d have been thinking of a Six Nations-like score. Roy put that down to England’s “arrogance”, rather than the quality of the Irish resistance. “They were awful in the second half, players playing for themselves, taking too many touches, trying to play Roy of the Rovers passes – even the subs strolling on, strolling off, showing a bit of arrogance.
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