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C’mon You Boys in Green – Ireland 2010

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We continue our look at European qualifiers.  Group 8 next.  (No Georgia in South Africa, their campaign tripped up by two overlapping Russian full backs, Sergei Ossetia and Igor Abkhazia.  Meanwhile, substitute Joe Biden has promised to help Georgia maintain their shape in future fixtures.)

Moving on from Iceland and up the index of heavily indebted and bank bollixed Western European nations, we turn to the Republic of Ireland.

Is there a term in the Gaeltacht for Catenaccio?  Does the Irish captain drink Jammy Donuts?  It seems applying classic football nomenclature or the current cult of celebrity to the Irish team somehow misses the point.