Top memories supporting the Boys in Green

-Robbie Brady in Lille, the sheer energy spent that night and booking a train to Lyon with shaking hands at 3 in the morning.
-Running the length of a waterlogged pitch and scoring from the edge of the box on against a load of seven foot Serbians. Game finished 3-3. Getting a lift back into Belgrade then, nearly getting killed in the back of a Yugo with 6 lads in it, driven by a Serbian with an open can, lit smoke and gearstick in his right hand, steering wheel and a nokia (not handfree) in his left...

2 - Favourite match: Bosnia, and Robbie Brady emerging from thick fog on the back of a white horse.
3 - Favourite player pre 2000, post 2000 (for the older lads): Paul McGrath, Robbie Keane.
4 - Best goal/Favourite goal: Shane Long v Germany
5 - Best individual display in a match: Stephen Ward v Germany. Had played f**k all that season up to that point. Great example of a player hitting a level of performance for Ireland far higher than for any club.
6 - Match with best atmosphere: Tie between Lille and Poland away in 2015
7 - Most impressive team performance (Home and Away): Home, Germany; Away, Germany. Same campaign.
8 - Favourite away ground: Atmosphere wise, National Stadium in Warsaw is the best designed modern stadium I've been in. Bilino Polje in Zenica for sheer scaldiness.
9-  Most disappointing memory ( you can rank them): Henry and the Denmarl collapse
10 - Worst refereeing decision against us: Henry

Paul McGrath v Italy in Giants Stadium. Need I say more? 

Roy Keane v Portugal in 2001 was close but I missed that game as I was at a wedding. Contrary to popular belief, that was his best performance of that campaign rather than Holland where he played well but realistically we were poxed to win that day. The Portugal performance was as good a midfield performance as you'd see anyhwere in the world.

Ireland 1 Spain 0 in 1989. People forget that before Gary McKay, the Jack era hadn't really grabbed the public imagination. Belgium and Scotland nearly sold out during the Euro '88 qualifiers but both with boring nial all draws and there were only 18,000 at the Luxembourg game and 26,000 at the final qualifier v Bulgaria even though we were still in with a shot at topping the group. Only 17,000 turned up on a Saturday evening to watch us beat Brazil during that campaign 

Post Euro 88, it was a different story. Tickets became like gold dust. I was getting them through college at the time but couldn't get one for this. Managed to get an all areas pass into the ground through a contact in Dundalk FC. So I went onto the North Terrace we were attacking for the first half and the South for the second. Right from kick off, every man jack in the ground was on top of the Spanish, the atmosphere was as intimidating as I've ever seen it. Everytime a Spanish player went over the touchline to get the ball for a throw, they were getting proper stick. Same with the kepper whenever he was collecting the ball for a goal-kick. It's no wonder the goal came from an error by them. Never seen an Irish crowd rattle the opposition as much as that day and it set the tone for the next few years until the bucket seats came in.

Missed the away game in England in '91 as couldn't get a ticket so can't include that. Much as it's a painful memory, Paris in 2009 was an incredible performance all over the pitch and it's criminal that we were done in the manner we were.

Amsterdam Arena.

1. Paris 2009 - Was at the other end of the ground bitoing my nails when that free was hit and breathed a sigh of relief when it was hit thinking it was going out of play. Even I could tell that there was something wrong when Henry managed to keep it in. Immediately, my phone started hopping in my pocket with messages from home screaming handball. Anbsolutely sickening. Just galling that we didn't take our chances and have it done but to be done by blatant cheating still hurts to this day.

2 Suwon 2002 - Having played so well, battled to level it and battered them in Extra Time, I was praying the penalties would be our end. Got a bad feeling when they went down the other end of the ground and the disappointment and we started missing penalty after penalty was gutting. Feel like it must have been the polar opposite of Genoa. 

Macedonia away in 99 is still the worst I've ever felt after an Irish game and that was just watching it in a boozer in the city centre as I couldn't make the trip. Just horrendous.