Rising Sons Ireland's Eastern Odyssey - WC 2002 |
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Gary McKay
Roy Keane Yo Adrian Joined: 21 Jul 2007 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 13816 |
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"Smalling and Jones.... have the potential to be the PL’s best ever pairing in my opinion." - SlurAlex
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engpad
500 Club la la la Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Status: Offline Points: 554 |
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Great watch
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bundy
Davey Langan Joined: 12 Apr 2011 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 935 |
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What a team, what a summer that was.
2002 was the first real World Cup for me. I was only a kid in 1994 but 2002 was special. I'll never forget Keane's goal against Germany. Even now it's give you some feeling watching that goal back. That Irish team was brilliant, never again will we see a team like that. I used to genuinely get excited seeing that team play. It's like a lifetime ago! |
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Stretchryan
Liam Brady Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Location: London Status: Offline Points: 2421 |
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Remember heading into the Roppongi area of Tokyo after the Germany game as we based ourselves in Osaka as was cheaper - was lads sliding down big hill on cases of beer some fun.
Spend sometime then in the Mistress Bar in Roppongi which was an S&M club - credit card took some hit. Have talked about the same bar with Fat Mike from Nofx as it gets mentioned in one of their songs. Lifetime ago in football terms when we played well. Great times Still scared of ropes as well. . |
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Diego
Kevin Kilbane Joined: 02 May 2012 Status: Offline Points: 207 |
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We played some great football under Mick McCarthy, 2 play-offs & a World Cup. Would love to see him back in charge. Any 1 have the road to Asia DVD, its got a picture of Roy Keane on the cover its about our qualifying campaigne for World Cup 2002. P.m me if so
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Charlton's Child
Liam Brady Joined: 30 Oct 2014 Status: Offline Points: 2827 |
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A Great watch , Makes the summer when your playing tournament football
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Drumcondra 69er
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 7123 |
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Some thing was happening the week of the Spain game in Seoul on a street everyone used to call hooker hill, lads sliding down it on beer crates, upside down tables, the lot. Absolute carnage, lads falling off as taking all the skin off their back and their legs, some laugh all the same! |
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foggy.nelson
Liam Brady Joined: 25 Sep 2012 Status: Offline Points: 1037 |
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I have it but not for sale |
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erimus
Roy Keane Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Location: North Kildare Status: Offline Points: 11399 |
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Just rewatched the highlights of the playoff
Shay Given was immense
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This is our f**king country we're talking about - Keano
ROLL ON 2016 |
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irelandfan
Ray Houghton Joined: 13 Aug 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 3655 |
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Some of the football played under Mick in those four game was immense, we had a great side though, he was IMO the best manager we ever had.
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I'm the gaffer whatever I say goes.
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valo88
Liam Brady Joined: 10 Oct 2012 Status: Offline Points: 1616 |
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A great watch, was only 13/14 for 2002 so didnt really take anything in other than the football and the Saipan fiasco.. Was good to see the interviews of the time.
We also played some fantastic ball under Mick, always think of what could have been if we had Keane, or even had we put Spain away. Dont think we're ever going to get back to that level unfortunately |
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The Huntacha
Roy Keane Joined: 27 Mar 2012 Location: Dubai Status: Offline Points: 12781 |
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Forgot how good some of the football was then. The versatility we had in the team we had was great too, when he took off the full backs, Kelly and Kilbane could slot back there. Some pace we had a CH too with Stan and Breen Gas to hear them slating Eto'o about his finishing given the player he went on to become.
The fact that that group didnt qualify for another tournament (I'm excluding the Euro's as the lads were at the end of their careers) is a travesty, such a good team. As someone mentioned earlier, it's a shame that Duffer never really had the same performances for us, he was excellent in that tournament. He looks locked in those interviews
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Jimmy Bullard - "Favorite band? Elastic."
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sledgehammer
Liam Brady Joined: 29 Jun 2009 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 1780 |
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Just watched this. The summer I was 18 fantastic memories. Will never forget the feeling of Keane's goal going in against the Germans
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Up there for thinking. Down there for dancing
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Drumcondra 69er
Jack Charlton Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 7123 |
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Euro 2000 really was the one that got away, matter of seconds away from topping the group, still sickens me thinking about it. |
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Baldrick
Robbie Keane Peyton-tly Pedantic Joined: 18 Sep 2008 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 32783 |
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Funny thing is that the qualifiers for this was one of Robbie's worst from a goal scoring perspective.
Before the play offs he only had one goal as far as I know and did not start in some games with duffer and connolly and Doherty all picked ahead of him in 3 of the games. Strange when you think about it now. |
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AKA pedantic kunt
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NewtNewbie
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Feb 2013 Status: Offline Points: 2416 |
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Bring back Mick!
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Butch
Ray Houghton Joined: 16 Oct 2014 Status: Offline Points: 3358 |
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To the old guard on here ... That have been to the more than major tournament that we qualified which was the best . I was only doin my leaving cert in 2002 so Poland was my 1st opportunity to get to a major tournament .
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eire77
Ray Houghton Joined: 08 May 2012 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 2993 |
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Did you have to repeat your English exam? |
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Just because I'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me...
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