Rep of Ireland v England 1988

[Closed Account 2]

I would never forgive her if that had been me !

[macdermesser]

I can't believe Hamilton's commentary for that game ... ffs.. i don't understand why they can't just ask Gabriel Egan to commentate on games .. or just use his radio commentary ... I would love to get my hands on the radio commentary of the game .. and put the audio file on the avi file above. I remembering hearing it years ago ... the crescendo that builds up from Galvin to Houghton, and Egan goes mental as you would ... and should .. first time in the big time and we're 1-0 up against after 6 minutes, against England.

Or get Declan Drake to do the games .. he might be liable to start shouting "Maggie thatcher, maggie thatcher your boys have taken a hell of a beating" and break into a nation once again.

[jbyrne]

anyone know where you might be able to get this match and the russian one on video or dvd?
would love to have them as part of my collection.
without doubt the best of the tournaments we had football wise

[brine3]

Yeah, Hamilton's commentary is dryer and drosser and more monotonous than usual in that match. Bloody awful.

And he kept calling Quinn "Neill" instead of Niall and Ray Houghton "the little Scot."

Even Jimmy McGee is better, he knows as little about football commentary as Hamilton but at least he gets a bit excited. Gabriel Egan is the best of a bad lot.

I say let Michael O'Murtehgahahghghahghg (or however you spell it) do the TV soccer.