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Baldrick 
Robbie Keane 
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The worst performance at euro 2012 wasn’t even on The pitch. AidoM doing Old McDonnell had a farm And going full chicken is as embarrassing as anything traps team did at euro 2012.
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AKA pedantic kunt
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Cabra Hoop
Roy Keane
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 8:07pm |
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Worst moment was the final whistle of the game against Italy in 1990. We showed great resolve in that tournament to come from behind to get creitable draws against decent teams. Right to the final whistle there was still believe that we could muster an equaliser. In 1988, once the Dutch scored we all knew it was curtains. Not too hard on Bonner for the mistake in Orlando, the Dutch were worth of a 2-0 win that day. Whatever errors Bonner made,his heroic performance on that golden sunny afternoon in Stuttgart forgives a lot.
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BabbsBalls
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 7:22pm |
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2012 changed things for us.
In every tournament we played we always gave as good as we got but 2012 lowered the bar for us. And it has stayed that low since.
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l hear you are a racist now, father ?
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tetsujin1979
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 6:35pm |
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Coleman didn't go to Euro 2012 because he didn't deserve to. He had barely played in the previous six months. He completed 90 minutes in only six games that season, and none after the new year. His last start was in March, and only appeared in the three more games before the end of the season.
Hibbert got injured early the next season, so Coleman played pretty much every game, and got back to his previous form. That 's when people started asking why he didn't go to Poland.
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Jack Charlton
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 6:16pm |
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Brady was injured in 88 and would have been suspended for the first two games even if he'd been fit. Coleman himself has said he didn't deserve to be picked in 2012 as he'd been p1ss poor in 2011/12 after a great season the year before.
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Jack Charlton
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 6:11pm |
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Ah, the '94 one was an absolute howler, '90 was a bit unfortunate. Ball came to him swerving from the original shot and he saved it, was a bit unlucky it rebounded straight to Schillaci. It's become a bit of revisionism to chalk it down as a howler by some, no one was saying that at the time. The Jonk one was a horror show. You can see in the difference to his reaction to each goal which would be judged a big error by players.
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gspain
Ray Houghton
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 6:02pm |
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Kieft's goal was a hammer blow but we went home with our heads held high in 88. Egypt was a major disappointment in 90. There was a plane waiting in Palermo airport to take the team home after the Dutch game that Quinner managed to cancel. We got semi final tickets that day as the FAI offloaded tickets. Losing to Italy was no disgrace and we thought we'd lost to the eventual winners again. The Dutch game was a major blow. We really thought we'd beat them. We were ranked 6th in the World at that stage having beaten the Dutch and the Germans away in warm ups. the heat was a factor in the Mexico game but it was much cooler v the Dutch. Expectations were low after Saipan so I was very happy with 2002. OK we could have pushed on in extra time and taken better penalties but still a decent effort. 2012 was as others have said a big letdown. The Belgium performance in 2016 was a letdown. We were poor I thought. Packie was a superb keeper btw. He had a bad day in Orlando. I think the backpass rule which came in maybe in 92 cut short his career. He would never cut in in a Pep or Klopp side. However he was a fine shot stopper and commanded his area very well.
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Trap junior
Robbie Keane
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Amazingly nobody has mentioned Saipan have they? Who was at fault for that whole debacle?
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Jack Charlton
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 5:41pm |
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Jesus, this thread would depress ya
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Robbie Keane
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But we did play games there. The Dutch played one more. Not sure it made a difference. The Dutch were better. There were signs that Jack's time was up as early as September 1993.
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Paul McGrath 
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 5:19pm |
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Big difference between training and playing games there
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 5:05pm |
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The EIRE were based in Orlando and travelled up to New York for the games only.
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lassassinblanc
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Actually think the two games we played in Orlando were two of worst following Ireland the heat was unbelievable I was only 9 at the time but I remember it just being horrific.
Ifrc the Dutch had been based there so we're used to it compared to ourselves going to new Jersey for two games
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 4:56pm |
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Packie s perfermance against England in Stuttgard is up there with the save from the penalty. He has cost us too though
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And it's come through now to mackay... and it's there
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sid waddell
Roy Keane
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 4:55pm |
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Closely followed by Terry Phelan in the same match, by the way.
Urgghhh. Here Holland, have a free place in the quarter-finals on us.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 4:53pm |
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Bonner in Orlando by a mile.
2012 we were sh*t and weren't getting out of the group whatever. In 1994 we'd beaten Italy and deserved to do so, and the sky felt the limit after that. But the tournament just completely petered out for us. Bonner letting that shot through was the point of no return. We were probably going to lose anyway, but once that ball slipped through him there was no way back and everybody knew it immediately. Everything felt wrong about that day - we'd assumed it would be Belgium after the group and then they somehow lost to Saudi Arabia meaning it was the Dutch, who we knew were better than us, the venue, the line up, the horrible kit. |
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lassassinblanc
Paul McGrath
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Don't think it done much in sales tbh. Don't think I have seen in paperback form usually a sign of demand. I'd be interested in reading it more for his views on his time at Newcastle and saipan
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Robbie Keane
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Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 4:48pm |
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Shay Given has a book? He always came across as especially dense, I can’t imagine it is worth reading!
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