Top memories supporting the Boys in Green

1 - Best memory supporting the Boys in Green :beating England Euro 1988 .
2 - Favourite match : as above
3 - Favourite player pre 2000, post 2000 (for the older lads) pre 2000- Paul McGrath / Kevin Kilbane
4 - Best goal/Favourite goal: McGeady v Georgia or Kennedy v Croatia / Houghton v England
5 - Best individual display in a match: McGrath v Italy and Dunne v Russia
6 - Match with best atmosphere: Holland away 2000
7 - Most impressive team performance (Home and Away) Holland 2001 France 2009 

Baldrick wrote: [QUOTE=Claret Murph] 1 - Stood behind the goal where David O'Leary scored the penalty in Genoa . Nothing in football has ever before or since could close to that moment . 2 - Favourite match 3 - Robbie Keane 4 - Robbie Brady in lille 5 - 6 - 7 - Most impressive team performance (Home and Away) 8 - Wembley 9-  6-1 home defeat to Germany 10 - t**ser henry

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1 - Best memory supporting the Boys in Green
1989 beating NI 3-0 - celebrations on the south terrace as we knew we'd qualified for our first World Cup. Malta was a gimme.
2 - Favourite match -                                                            Ireland v Holland WCQ 2002 home - I seriously thought the West Stand Upper was going to collapse after we scored and at the end as we celebrated.
3 - Favourite player pre 2000, post 2000 (for the older lads)                  Roy Keane sensational and an inspirational leader.
4 - Best goal/Favourite goal -                                                             Mark Kennedy home to Yugoslavia ECQ 2000... scorcher!!
5 - Best individual display in a match
Roy Keane away to Cyprus 2002 WCQ
6 - Match with best atmosphere
Kop End Anfield 1995 v Holland Euro '96 play off.
7 - Most impressive team performance (Home and Away)
Away - v England Wembley 1991 ECQ 1992 totally dominated them one that got away.
Home - v Turkey won 5-0, weak opposition but we played superb that day from the off.
8 - Favourite away ground
Ernst Happel Stadion was there for Trap's last game - not really for the ground just for the way the Austrians attended the match cycling through the park close by to the game - everybody seemed to arrive on bikes at the stadium.
9- Most disappointing memory ( you can rank them)
1) Being knocked out of Euro '88 and WC '90.
2) Beating Turkey away and being pipped by England for Euro'92 qualification.
3) Anfield 1995 the end of an era.
10 - Worst refereeing decision against us
Tony Galvin v Russia was nearly decapitated in their box should have been a penalty, 1988 European Championships.

1 - Best memory supporting the Boys in Green Ireland v Italy 1994 and O'Connell Street afterwards
2 - Favourite match Ireland v Italy 1994
3 - Favourite player pre 2000, post 2000 (for the older lads) Paul McGrath, Richard Dunne
4 - Best goal/Favourite goal Best: Mark Kennedy v Yugoslavia/Favourite: Jason McAteer v Holland
5 - Best individual display in a match Paul McGrath v Italy or Roy Keane v Portugal 2001
6 - Match with best atmosphere I'm tempted to say Malta 1989 which is the only one of the qualifiers in the glory days of 89/90/91 I attended but I'd have to go with Holland 2001
7 - Most impressive team performance (Home and Away) Home: Portugal 1995, Away Paris 2009 - Italy in New York is the most impressive performance I've ever seen by Ireland anywhere though.
8 - Favourite away ground Parken Stadium, Copenhagen
9-  Most disappointing memory ( you can rank them) 1. Failing to qualify for Euro '92 the night Lineker scored in Poland. 2. Holland in Orlando 1994 - a dreadful anti-climax. 3. Losing to Spain on penalties. Actually, the first half an hour against Spain in 1993 was nearly worse than any of them, but we got away with it ultimately.
10 - Worst refereeing decision against us - A Polish player being upended by Chris Woods when Poland were 1-0 up on England in the final Euro '92 qualifier, stonewall penalty but not given. Had the Poles gone 2-0 up with a quarter of the game left England weren't coming back.


Edited by sid waddell - 05 Apr 2020 at 1:23am

In tolka park 94 going around drinking out of plastic cups of beer that I could find I was (very) young lol

Baldrick wrote: Claret Murph wrote: Baldrick wrote: [QUOTE=Claret Murph] 1 - Stood behind the goal where David O'Leary scored the penalty in Genoa . Nothing in football has ever before or since could close to that moment . 2 - Favourite match 3 - Robbie Keane 4 - Robbie Brady in lille 5 - 6 - 7 - Most impressive team performance (Home and Away) 8 - Wembley 9-  6-1 home defeat to Germany 10 - t**ser henry   Jesus Murph you mad a dogs dinner of that.    [/QUOTE Yep my boss just turned the corner and i hit post and closed down Ybig then looked like i was working .  And your working from home :)