"And It's Come through here....McATEER"...George Hamilton (01/Sept/2001)..10 years on

**Metrostars** · 01/09/2011, 3:49 PM

Roy Keane set the tone early with a few clattering challenges.

**tetsujin1979** · 01/09/2011, 4:31 PM

Few interesting comments around about it also being the anniversary of England's 5-1 win over Germany in Germany, but perhaps the most telling is from Didi Hamann:

"I'm surprised the anniversary is a big thing because it was only a qualifier."

While the same accusation could be leveled against the Holland game, the England win meant Germany would go on to a play off where they beat the Ukraine over two legs 1-1 and 4-1, whereas the Dutch losing put them out of the World Cup completely

**gustavo** · 01/09/2011, 10:30 PM

http://foot.ie/threads/902-Ireland-v...nd-predictions foot.ie thread on the game at the time

**Irish_Praha** · 01/09/2011, 10:57 PM

I was living in Sheffield at the time doing my PhD and didn't have any Irish friends interested in the game; just English guys looking forward to the German game later that night. I had a bad exerience a few months before looking around the city for somewhere to look at the Ireland-Portugal game i.e. loud Yorkshire phuckers annoying me when I was trying to concentrate on the game. So I decided I would just listen to this one on the radio.
I remeber the supermarket around the corner had a special offer on a 6 pack of L�wenbrau beer and my plan was to drink 2 or 3 during the game and go out later. But my God listening to the game on the radio is even more nerve wrecking than on TV and by half time I had already drunk 4 cans and bitten all my fingernails off. By the end of the game all 6 cans were gone and I went out on the town to celebrate. I can't remember much after that only that all the locals were in a good mood because of their win over Germany although that was a few hours later.

**Yard of Pace** · 02/09/2011, 8:30 AM

Originally Posted by gustavo

http://foot.ie/threads/902-Ireland-v...nd-predictions foot.ie thread on the game at the time

It's easy to laugh at people with the benefit of hindsight but there's some gas posts on there!

Also, the atmosphere at Landsdowne is c**p! Full of ole ole & bar stool "fans"! I'd guess a lot of the people on saturday have probably never stood on a terrace!

**Yard of Pace** · 02/09/2011, 8:32 AM

Scarily prescient....

And if somebody finds a job in California and decides to move there, then fair play to them!

**geysir** · 02/09/2011, 10:40 AM

The beginnings of Robbie skepticism

29/08/2001
"Robbie Keane 'n stuff
IMO he became an international too early in his career. Now that hes got a few years older & got a bit heavier hes slower on his feet & really hasn't learned anything since first making the breakthrough."

**Supreme feet** · 02/09/2011, 10:49 AM

Keane was having a hard time of it at that stage... 2000/2001 was his longest spell without a goal for Ireland (8 games I think, the last of which was the Holland game). Only ended up with two in the whole campaign. Still popped up with the crucial goal against Iran, though.

**paul_oshea** · 02/09/2011, 11:01 AM

IMO he became an international too early in his career. Now that hes got a few years older & got a bit heavier hes slower on his feet & really hasn't learned anything since first making the breakthrough.

If its a decision between Duff & Robbie Keane then Duff has to get the nod. Duff may not be an out 'n out striker but he will get us lots of freekicks which are probably the only way we can hope to score too.

Also, the atmosphere at Landsdowne is c**p! Full of ole ole & bar stool "fans"! I'd guess a lot of the people on saturday have probably never stood on a terrace!

Is Pete Brnie3 in disguise?!

**MagicMon** · 02/09/2011, 1:06 PM

Originally Posted by Irish_Praha

I was living in Sheffield at the time doing my PhD and didn't have any Irish friends interested in the game; just English guys looking forward to the German game later that night. I had a bad exerience a few months before looking around the city for somewhere to look at the Ireland-Portugal game i.e. loud Yorkshire phuckers annoying me when I was trying to concentrate on the game.

Its a f*cking awful city to try to watch an Ireland game in, not helped by the fact that I lived there during the Staunton era

**koneinc** · 02/09/2011, 1:32 PM

Watched it in Dublin, straight from working the morning in town to Brogans on Dame St, spent the entire day there celebrating, even managed to sneak a pizza in from Apache later!