Glad you used the word 'embarrassed' because I have now reached the point where I don't mind saying in public (and particularly to non-Irish people) that I'm embarassed by my country's football team. In fact saying we have a national 'football' team is quite a contradiction at this point as we don't play anything even approaching the game of football as the rest of the world knows it. Hoofing the ball is the only way we know how and we can blame Martin O'Neill all we want but he is not responsible for the breeding these players 20 years ago. Nothing good will happen in Irish football during the next long while, thanks to the careful and meticulous planning we put into our coaching system (yeah right) two decades ago.
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