nope, definitely heard it before at the Aviva. There's a drummer in the singing section, he beats the drum, clap, drum beat, clap, "come on you boys", drum beat, clap, "come on you boys", drum beat, clap (getting faster), "come on you boys in green", etc
https://www.theguardian.com/football...cup-qualifiers
Guardian’s 10 talking points from the week’s international football:
6) Republic just about good enough
Despite Ireland’s win over Moldova on Sunday, James McClean had something to get off his chest. Fresh from scoring the two goals that sealed the 3-1 victory, McClean seemed irked that Martin O’Neill’s team had received plenty of criticism for their performance in squeaking past Georgia a few nights earlier. “We got a lot of flak after the Serbia game and a lot of flak after the Georgia game, I think unfairly so,” said McClean. “I think the Irish press needs to have a bit of a reality check: we’re not going to blow teams away, we know that. We’ve always been a team that works hard. When has winning never been enough?” Quite so. The problem being that if they play like they did against Georgia much more often – and in parts of that game they barely offered the minimum expected – those wins might disappear fairly rapidly. Still, the performance against the Moldovans was much better, if not enormously impressive – a solid cheese-and-ham sandwich after the burnt toast of Georgia – and perhaps that’s what can be expected of this Ireland team. Genuine, convincing performances in international football are rare, so seven points from their opening three games is good enough
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