San (Stan) Marino 10 years on

Nib wrote: What was the game where Stan snuck up behind Tony O'Donoghue who was doing an interview and made a stupid face into the camera? Dunphy flipped out big time.

That was Germany away he came up behind Ray Houghton I thought

Bitored wrote: 1874eire wrote: Worst thing was the fact that we were in a really poor group and if we had our sh!t together we probably would have qualified automatically as the top two went through at that time. We didn't have a bad group of players. I don't know if you can say that for sure. The Czechs and Germans were two decent sides then, the Czechs actually topped the group. No doubt we should have put up a challenge for second. We had a squad far superior to the one that went to Poland/Ukraine.

I'm fairly sure TV3 showed this match as did the 5-2 vs Cyprus and the Macedonia game last minute equaliser blame them ****s.

What was the game where Stan snuck up behind Tony O'Donoghue who was doing an interview and made a stupid face into the camera?

TonyNotJack wrote: irishmufc wrote: Stretchryan wrote: Fine head of hair on him too.   He got the transplant by the time of the away game in Slovakia and apparently was sensitive to the sl*gging. Don't know how much truth was in that story.   He took his goal brilliantly in that away game after a smart dummy by Keane. Fantastic first touch very classy cool finish.   And to think he's still only 30 years old. Would've been a great asset to have if he had a good attitude.   Maybe he'd be sitting with 70 cap's and our midfield general now, if he hadn't inherited male pattern baldness. It's his grandad on his mam's side I blame, not his assorted grannies

irishmufc wrote: Stretchryan wrote: Fine head of hair on him too.   He got the transplant by the time of the away game in Slovakia and apparently was sensitive to the sl*gging. Don't know how much truth was in that story.   He took his goal brilliantly in that away game after a smart dummy by Keane. Fantastic first touch very classy cool finish.   And to think he's still only 30 years old. Would've been a great asset to have if he had a good attitude.

Watched the game at home. We looked to see the game out at 1-0, despite been under no pressure whatsoever, so nothing like a San Marino goal then to wake the players, up. Those last 8 minutes were more entertaining than the previous 86. In the end, it was just another team winning a game in San Marino.

Staunton said he would be happy with a narrow win and that's what he got. His only saving grace being that it was the last ever live Ireland game on TV3, so no Dunphy around to kick him backwards and sideways. Matt Holland was never going to kick his mate. Instead Dunphy had to wait until the Gerry Ryan Show the next day to rehash his usual rants at the time.

Was listing to Kevin kilbane take about this on Newstalk last night . He was pretty embarrassed about it and wasn't really comfortable talking about it or stan

Bitored wrote: irishmufc wrote: Bitored wrote: Denis Irwin wrote: Bitored wrote: Feck, hard to believe its 10 years ago! I`ll freely admit I was willing San Marino to hold on for the draw, it would have been massive for them and it would've helped us get rid of Stan. Same here. Was actually slightly raging when Stephen Ireland got the winner as it got JD off the hook. No way could Stan have survived if it had remained 1-1 Ya it was a surreal feeling when Ireland scored,  I was gutted for San Marino. I had  given up qualification hopes long before the game so I was just hoping a rock bottom result like that would shake the sh1t out of Irish football.     Honestly fcuk San Marino. Let them worry about themselves.   You'd be quiet happy for us to have had another 'Leichenstein' and forever be associated with an embarrassing draw in San Marino that would make us a laughing stock?!   I can understand the lads on here not attending Ireland games due their bad treatment by the FAI but to not want the team to win 100% of the time just means you can't possibly call yourself an Irish supporter/fan as it's conditional on certain factors manager/CEO/state of Irish football. Ah will you go away out of that crap. I was hoping for rock bottom so we could get rid of an inept manager and potentially put pressure on an inept CEO. I`m positive I wasn't the only one with this mind-set and it just highlights the bleak period we were going through.