25 years ago today
Everyone looks so young... massive shirts..
2 big failures. The fa selling tickets to people without checking
Placing away fans in that part of a stadium
The shame, that the game was allowed to be cancelled...
Anybody here at it?
was at it. was in college in dublin city ctre at the time and there was trouble all day in town. some awful eejits on the south terrace around me from our side also
Got a sense of deja vu reading that, jbyrne - no wonder as it was discussed previously here.
I watched the game in a pub on Sky in Reykjavik, electric atmosphere at the game, the best friendly ever, then a switch was flipped and we were were just witnessing the ugliest scenes ever. I remember the bad feeling I had on the way home, probably would have needed to talk with Joe on Liveline the next day.
David Kelly had a bet on himself to score the first goal (those were the days), I wonder was he able to collect?
Good memory, Fixer. He was booked for a foul on Ronaldo anyway so presume that was it (yellows aren't given out lightly in friendlies) - https://www.theguardian.com/football...wsstory.sport2
Yet Kerr's team are not all about defending and there was again a smattering of good attacking, led by the tireless Damien Duff on his 50th appearance and Andy Reid. If Duff caught the eye going forward, he also impressed with his work getting back.
Mourinho, already without Arjen Robben at Stamford Bridge, may have been dismayed in some ways by Duff's effort levels during the 68 minutes that he was given by Kerr. It was a sign of how seriously the winger was taking matters that he earned a booking for tripping Cristiano Ronaldo.
i remember being a kid at that game. Ronaldo milked a tackle early with about 6 rolls and got a player, presumably Duffer, booked for what was a robust but fair tackle. Ronaldo was booed every time he touched the ball from that point on. Unless it was a different player who initially got booked and duffer laid into him later...
Was on the north terrace that night, Kilbane was immense
Bloody good pass from Quinn!
You can't spell failure without FAI
it led to this confrontation (can't embed for some reason)
http://c3.thejournal.ie/media/2015/0...95-358x500.jpg
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