For the month that’s in it.
The European Championships, Wednesday, June 15, 1988.
The Niedersachsenstation, Hanover, West Germany.
Jackie’s Army travelled north to face Dynamo Kiev the Soviet Union achieving a stunning, unexpected and comprehensive 1-1 draw.
Kevin Myers, in the Irish Times, ruminated:
If there had been a little more justice in the world and a little less discreet burning of votive candles in the Kremlin, Ireland would have bagged three goals and we would be booking our hotels in Munich.
This Irish side showed itself to be one of great class, sophistication and courage. The days of eye-rubbing disbelief, suggestion that we had all been smoking illicit vegetables and were having the most preposterous hallucination should now be dispelled forever.
Vegetables?
You’re doing it wrong.
Pic via Joe.ie
Before we went ot the 88 Euros and stole “Ole, Ole, Ole.” There was another chant doing the rounds, “England B Team, England B team, hello, hello…” (To the air of “Good to be back.” By a Mr G Glitter.) Still very apt it would seem, well, as long as the Granny rule stands.
yawn
What ever happened Kevin Myers? I’d forgotten all about him..
He’s been pensioned off to the Irish edition of The Sunday Times.
His columns were awful!
He was always an odious male genital, thankfully we’re subjected to less of his odiousness these days as the general populace has recognised his level of odiousness.
He called the children born to single mothers “bastards”. So the IT fired him. It was a great day.
If only the Indo would do the same for Ian O’Doherty.