Full Videos of Old Irish Matches

[Fixer82]

"Arguably our greatest ever performance", claimed Jimmy McGee in commentary. Judging from the highlights, it would be easy to believe. He also mentioned that we had conceded six against the same opposition three years earlier. We looked on a totally different level to the USSR, footballing wise. Was a pretty feisty affair too.

Brady stood out a mile alright, hard to believe it was his debut. Highway was very lively and Giles still had it. Seems we didn't raise much of a gallop thereafter though? Needless to say we failed to qualify, a tough looking double header doing for us in the second half of the campaign. CCCP, instead, advanced to the (pre-final tournament) two legged quarter finals, where they lost to eventual winners Czechoslovakia.

Love the massive tricolour on the halfway line

[seanfhear]

Love the massive tricolour on the halfway line

Some good Irish players on the field there.

Jimmy Holmes; A very good player for Spurs . He broke his leg a few years after this and he was never the same player afterwards. Which was a big loss to Spurs and Ireland.

Giles, Brady ; Well everybody knows about those two, Brilliant.

Steve Heighway ; Great Player for Liverpool. I don’t think he always got the credit he deserved for being part of that Great Liverpool Team.

Don Givens; Had a great few years for QPR and Ireland.

Ray Treacy; Maybe not top quality but I’d say he’d give you a days work marking him and him marking you !

Paddy Roche was a young goalkeeper trying to make the Grade at Man Utd but he dropped some clangers and his career sort a petered out after that. He played well that day for Ireland.

Joe Kinear had a great game against Oleg Blokhin (?) in that match. Blokhin was a big star for Russia. Yet to my mind he never quite produced what we were always told he could do. Still Good though.

Paddy Mulligan and Mick Martin; Give it all Type Fellas and who doesn’t need those.

I never saw much of Terry Mancini. Obviously he wasn’t going to take any messing from the Russian. Its very hard not to call him Henry Mancini and attempt to say something smart !

Had we got lets say five years together, of the Best of Brady and the Best of Giles we would have had some midfield. I suppose that would have been too much for the Gods to give to a small Country like Ireland at the same time ! !

[seanfhear]

Just wanted a bit of refresh of the Jimmy Holmes story. What such a serious injury can rob a player of.

He broke his leg playing for Ireland.


https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/sp...olmes-12988326

[NeverFeltBetter]

Extended highlights of Ireland/Holland in 01 on RTE right now, it'll be on the Player later probably. Whatever about the quality of that side, they had a confidence we've struggled to replicate consistently since. But how did the Dutch not score?

[DeLorean]

RTÉ 2 are tucking into Euro '88 next, starting on Saturday:

21:30 Euro '88 - The First Time (Darragh Maloney and guest Ronnie Whelan with a look back at the Republic of Ireland's historic first appearance in a major tournament at Euro 88)

22:30 Euro '88 - England v Republic of Ireland (Highlights of Ireland's famous win over England in Stuttgart)

23:30 Euro '88 - Dutch Masters (The official UEFA film on the tournament that shot Dutch football to the top of Europe)

I think they're doing the subsequent tournaments with Irish involvement over the next few weeks.

[DeLorean]

Extended highlights of Ireland/Holland in 01 on RTE right now, it'll be on the Player later probably. Whatever about the quality of that side, they had a confidence we've struggled to replicate consistently since. But how did the Dutch not score?

A miracle really.

[NeverFeltBetter]

There was some serious attacking talent in that Dutch side: Overmars, Van Nistelrooy, Kluivert, Hasselbaink, Van Hooijdonk, not to mention Davids, the de Boers, Stam and Van Der Sar elsewhere. It's astonishing they couldn't get it together to make it to South Korea/Japan, or to win the tournament they co-hosted two years later.

I'd actually love to see a few hours dedicated to that qualifying campaign on RTE. Would it be fair to say it's the best Ireland have played consistently in the last few decades? The Iran play-off is one that I haven't actually seen any highlights of since it was played.

[DeLorean]

I'd actually love to see a few hours dedicated to that qualifying campaign on RTE. Would it be fair to say it's the best Ireland have played consistently in the last few decades? The Iran play-off is one that I haven't actually seen any highlights of since it was played.

Not quite a few hours but this was the programme RTÉ did on that qualification campaign. 'How many Yen to a Euro?' was the official title if memory serves.
It's been uploaded to YouTube in three parts.



Part 2

Part 3

[Fixer82]

A miracle really.

They really should have. Their penalty shout seemed a sure fire penalty initially too but the replay showed it was more Van Nistelrooy running into the back of Given.

Would we still have qualified if they’d gotten the equaliser?

[pineapple stu]

A draw would have done us alright.

They lost away to us and Portugal. All the other matches between the top three were draws.

[seanfhear]

Was Van Gaal’s tactical genius that day ? Just throw on forwards from the Bench ?

[pineapple stu]

In fairness - van Nistelrooy, Kluivert, van Hooijdonk and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink up against Richie Dunne, Steve Staunton and us down to ten men.

I'd have done it.

[seanfhear]

In fairness - van Nistelrooy, Kluivert, van Hooijdonk and Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink up against Richie Dunne, Steve Staunton and us down to ten men.

I'd have done it.

I wouldn’t have given you the Utd job on the back of that particularly when you did not get the Result !

[geysir]

Was Van Gaal’s tactical genius that day ? Just throw on forwards from the Bench ?

Of course Kelly banjaxed one winger who had to be replaced but suprisingly Van Gaal replaced the other winger Zenden (with Hassselbank?), he was also missing two or three starting players. I think that Nederlands squad had the bones of Van Gaals classic Ajax team from the mid 1990s.
That had to be one the poorest back 4s that ever took the field for us, Kelly was muck all the game, Stan was arthritic, Dunne was almost a virgin and Harte looked like he could be skinned when one on one with Zenden in a nano second.
I had forgotten how much we hoofed the ball up field, we badly needed a player like Houghton in midfield.
The ref was also good to us that day, his good decisions went in our favour, the penalty shout (also a Dunne hand ball?). He then played advantage, not just once but twice in a row in the lead up to our goal, normally a ref would have blown up for the 2nd foul but this German ref had vision.

[Real ale Madrid]

We were lucky in the home leg but the same was true for them in the reverse game at the start of the campaign.

https://youtu.be/sVV-f9LoSLw

[Colbert Report]

The match against Holland at home in September of 2001, I seem to remember watching it in a pub and there was a replay of the Dutch keeper handling the ball just on the outside of the box. Can anyone who has seen the recent replay confirm? Also, is there any way that someone in the USA can watch some of these old matches?

[jbyrne]

The match against Holland at home in September of 2001, I seem to remember watching it in a pub and there was a replay of the Dutch keeper handling the ball just on the outside of the box. Can anyone who has seen the recent replay confirm?

yes, he carries the ball outside his box a few minutes from the end. it was more in a rush to get on with the game than anything. none of our players were near him at the time.

no doubt we were quite lucky that day but some of our individual performances (roy in particular) were outstanding

[DeLorean]

The match against Holland at home in September of 2001, I seem to remember watching it in a pub and there was a replay of the Dutch keeper handling the ball just on the outside of the box. Can anyone who has seen the recent replay confirm? Also, is there any way that someone in the USA can watch some of these old matches?

Good memory. That was in the dying minutes when Van der Sar was eager to get the ball moving back up the pitch. He carelessly ran the ball to the edge of the box in his arms, and probably did step slightly outside before releasing.

Edit: or what jbyrne said!

[geysir]

Much ado about very little.
Van de Saar's indiscretion was marginal, if at all and if there was any doubt usually goalies got the benefit of it.

Why didn't RTE show the whole game?

[DeLorean]

Don't think there was any fuss about it really, bar the natural roar from the home crowd at the time.

RTÉ have just been going with an hour long show each week, with various 'classics' from different sports. Take out the ads and it's barely 40mins I'd say. TG4 have been going the whole hog.