Ireland V England in November??

[cullenswood]

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/england-on-way-fai-target-november-17-date-15-years-after-riots-2243312.html

Could be interesting

[gspain]

Can we delete the thread please.

According to the French Football Federation's site and FIFA England play France at Wembley on November 17th.

http://www.fff.fr/bleus/calebleu/67.shtml

http://www.fifa.com/worldfootball/results/index.html

Believe who you wish. However anyone who believes the Indo fancy a bet?

[Dee1975]

The FIFA website has us down to play Norway at home on 17.11.10

[pineapple stu]

That's an impressive article from the Indo so!

[gspain]

The FIFA website has us down to play Norway at home on 17.11.10

Interesting I hadn't noticed that.

I had heard we were playing a mid ranked team at home in November and Norway certainly qualify on that score.

[gspain]

Football Association of Ireland



July 2nd, 2010



Republic of Ireland to host Norway on November 17th



The Football Association of Ireland (FAI) is pleased to confirm that the Republic of Ireland senior team will play a home friendly at Aviva Stadium against Norway on November 17th.



Norway, who are currently ranked 22nd in the world by FIFA, will provide strong opposition at a time when Giovanni Trapattoni’s side will be four matches into their European Championship qualifying campaign.



ENDS

[jbyrne]

so, the monthly england friendly rumour raises its head again!

[ArdeeBhoy]

More Indo BS.

As for Ingerland, unless we get drawn together otherwise in a Euros/WC, let's leave it until say 2030.....

[Cuyahoga]

Its not the first time the Indo got it wrong. I hope we never play them!

[dantheman]

Unless lizzy fancies a kick around when she's over...

[elroy]

Do Norway owe us a home friendly after we played them away before the start of the previous campaign??

[Charlie Darwin]

I love how they dug themselves out of this one.

HAVING failed to secure a glamour tie with England (http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+Kingdom), the FAI (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Football+Association+of+Ireland) were forced to settle for a significantly less appetising November 17 friendly as they announced Norway (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Norway) as the opposition for the vacant international date later this year.

In other words:

HAVING failed to convince anyone that the FAI wanted to secure a glamour tie with England (http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+Kingdom), the Irish Independent were forced to settle mere hours later for a significantly less appetising November 17 friendly as the FAI announced Norway (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Norway) as the opposition for the vacant international date later this year.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/fai-settle-on-norway-test-2244689.html

[Crosby87]

When is the first Euro qualifier anyway?

[irishfan86]

When is the first Euro qualifier anyway?

We play Argentina on Aug. 11 to prepare for our first pair of qualifiers, on Sept. 3, in Armenia, and Sept. 7, at home to Andorra.

[ArdeeBhoy]

HAVING failed to secure a glamour tie with England (http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+Kingdom), the FAI (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Football+Association+of+Ireland) were forced to settle for a significantly less appetising November 17 friendly as they announced Norway (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Norway) as the opposition for the vacant international date later this year.

In other words:

HAVING failed to convince anyone that the FAI wanted to secure a glamour tie with England (http://www.independent.ie/topics/United+Kingdom), the Irish Independent were forced to settle mere hours later for a significantly less appetising November 17 friendly as the FAI announced Norway (http://www.independent.ie/topics/Norway) as the opposition for the vacant international date later this year.

http://www.independent.ie/sport/soccer/fai-settle-on-norway-test-2244689.html`

'Glamorous' ?? Hassle, more like. Anyway another meaningless, space-filling friendly, regardless.