On this day.

[mouview]

In 2001, Ireland  beat Netherlands 1-0. Jason McAteer scoring the winner.

20 feckin’ years! Scary.

2nd half shown on the big screen at Slane...brilliant. McAteer's goal replayed again and again.

is that the game Keane hammered somebody right at the beginning? Mind the goal well

Keane took Overmars out first tackle. Kluivert put up a token effort of protest without wanting to get involved with Keane. 

https://twitter.com/DonalCuddy/status/1268643345338900481?s=20

The tackle has been mythologised I'm Irish sporting history as some sort of Titanic event where Keane took out their most dangerous player. In reality, Overmars was done and had a great game.

The whole Jack Charlton era has been mythologised worse IMO, whereas Big Mick's achievements in 2002 were just as laudable.

Your toot! Italia 90 will never be repeated... What a time to be alive.

Meh, if you need a soccer team whose performances were modest in the extreme to get excited about, imagine what an All Ireland win would do! Whole country got completely carried away over very little. Aldridge kicking Hagi and injuring himself summed it up a bit.

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

In 2001, Ireland  beat Netherlands 1-0. Jason McAteer scoring the winner.

20 feckin’ years! Scary.

2nd half shown on the big screen at Slane...brilliant. McAteer's goal replayed again and again.

is that the game Keane hammered somebody right at the beginning? Mind the goal well

Keane took Overmars out first tackle. Kluivert put up a token effort of protest without wanting to get involved with Keane. 

https://twitter.com/DonalCuddy/status/1268643345338900481?s=20

The tackle has been mythologised I'm Irish sporting history as some sort of Titanic event where Keane took out their most dangerous player. In reality, Overmars was done and had a great game.

The whole Jack Charlton era has been mythologised worse IMO, whereas Big Mick's achievements in 2002 were just as laudable.

Your toot! Italia 90 will never be repeated... What a time to be alive.

Happy happy times

[balladmaker]

Will be a long time before Italia '90 is bettered, especially from an Irish perspective ... making the last 8 against the hosts in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the soundtrack to the tournament was the three best tenor's the world has seen, the craic around the whole tournament ... as was said, a great time to be alive!

[Fear Bun Na Sceilpe]

Will be a long time before Italia '90 is bettered, especially from an Irish perspective ... making the last 8 against the hosts in the Olympic Stadium in Rome, the soundtrack to the tournament was the three best tenor's the world has seen, the craic around the whole tournament ... as was said, a great time to be alive!

agreed

[BennyCake]

In 2001, Ireland  beat Netherlands 1-0. Jason McAteer scoring the winner.

20 feckin’ years! Scary.

2nd half shown on the big screen at Slane...brilliant. McAteer's goal replayed again and again.

is that the game Keane hammered somebody right at the beginning? Mind the goal well

Keane took Overmars out first tackle. Kluivert put up a token effort of protest without wanting to get involved with Keane. 

https://twitter.com/DonalCuddy/status/1268643345338900481?s=20

Overmars deserved it because he was a wee diving p***k

[Main Street]

In 2001, Ireland  beat Netherlands 1-0. Jason McAteer scoring the winner.

20 feckin’ years! Scary.

2nd half shown on the big screen at Slane...brilliant. McAteer's goal replayed again and again.

is that the game Keane hammered somebody right at the beginning? Mind the goal well

Keane took Overmars out first tackle. Kluivert put up a token effort of protest without wanting to get involved with Keane. 

https://twitter.com/DonalCuddy/status/1268643345338900481?s=20

Overmars deserved it because he was a wee diving p***k

He dived to get Gary Kelly his first yellow but Gary fairly clipped his ankles to earn his 2nd yellow, still Overmars made some hay despite being half crippled until Van Gaal decided to go long ball, substituting his 2 out and out wingers with 2 strikers,  an astonishing managerial faux pas.

[StPatsAbu]

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[armaghniac]

On this day, 16 September 1961, the remnants of Hurricane Debbie rearranged Ireland.

Woods were flattened and thousands of acres of crops destroyed. One third of the country’s crop of wheat and oats was ruined and some crops up to ten miles inland were destroyed by sea spray. Ships were torn off their moorings, dozens of small boats sank along the coast and in marinas, and storm surges triggered coastal flooding. The winds also drove the Shannon to flow backwards and rise 4ft.

Twelve people were killed in the Republic, a further six in Northern Ireland and hundreds more were treated in hospital for injuries caused by flying debris and falling trees. In an extraordinarily close escape, a two-year-old girl in Shanmaghery, Co Tyrone, was hurled into the air and found 24 hours later unharmed in a nearby field

[mouview]

On this day, 16 September 1961, the remnants of Hurricane Debbie rearranged Ireland.

Woods were flattened and thousands of acres of crops destroyed. One third of the country’s crop of wheat and oats was ruined and some crops up to ten miles inland were destroyed by sea spray. Ships were torn off their moorings, dozens of small boats sank along the coast and in marinas, and storm surges triggered coastal flooding. The winds also drove the Shannon to flow backwards and rise 4ft.

Twelve people were killed in the Republic, a further six in Northern Ireland and hundreds more were treated in hospital for injuries caused by flying debris and falling trees. In an extraordinarily close escape, a two-year-old girl in Shanmaghery, Co Tyrone, was hurled into the air and found 24 hours later unharmed in a nearby field

Parents / older generation frequently mentioned Debbie and the havoc it wreaked. Stone walls being knocked, roofs blown away. A neighbour had to tie a shed roof of ours to a trailer with wire to help secure it. One of these epochal moments for those that experienced it.

[J70]

My auld fella used to talk about it a lot. Did massive damage in our part of Donegal, both structurally with buildings and bridges, and just simply blowing shit away. As was normal at the time, hay was stored in the fields in haystacks and stood no chance.

[BennyCake]

A few hours late... but yesterday (16 September) in 1977 Marc Bolan was killed in a car crash, aged only 29.

44 years ago. Mad.

[johnnycool]

In 2001, Ireland  beat Netherlands 1-0. Jason McAteer scoring the winner.

20 feckin’ years! Scary.

2nd half shown on the big screen at Slane...brilliant. McAteer's goal replayed again and again.

is that the game Keane hammered somebody right at the beginning? Mind the goal well

Keane took Overmars out first tackle. Kluivert put up a token effort of protest without wanting to get involved with Keane. 

https://twitter.com/DonalCuddy/status/1268643345338900481?s=20

The tackle has been mythologised I'm Irish sporting history as some sort of Titanic event where Keane took out their most dangerous player. In reality, Overmars was done and had a great game.

The whole Jack Charlton era has been mythologised worse IMO, whereas Big Mick's achievements in 2002 were just as laudable.

Your toot! Italia 90 will never be repeated... What a time to be alive.

Happy happy times

They were, but doesn't take away from the fact the football wasn't exactly exciting and we'd draw a hell of a lot of games to get to that quarterfinal IIRC.

[imtommygunn]

First ever world cup. None of us had ever seen the like before though were mostly kids I guess.

Then went to a tournament 22 years later and took at least a fortnight to recover from the booze lol.

[Kidder81]

First ever world cup. None of us had ever seen the like before though were mostly kids I guess.

Then went to a tournament 22 years later and took at least a fortnight to recover from the booze lol.

Yep and Italian league very strong at that time, you got to see players for the first time you normally wouldn’t have

[Main Street]

In 2001, Ireland  beat Netherlands 1-0. Jason McAteer scoring the winner.

20 feckin’ years! Scary.

2nd half shown on the big screen at Slane...brilliant. McAteer's goal replayed again and again.

is that the game Keane hammered somebody right at the beginning? Mind the goal well

Keane took Overmars out first tackle. Kluivert put up a token effort of protest without wanting to get involved with Keane. 

https://twitter.com/DonalCuddy/status/1268643345338900481?s=20

The tackle has been mythologised I'm Irish sporting history as some sort of Titanic event where Keane took out their most dangerous player. In reality, Overmars was done and had a great game.

The whole Jack Charlton era has been mythologised worse IMO, whereas Big Mick's achievements in 2002 were just as laudable.

Your toot! Italia 90 will never be repeated... What a time to be alive.

Happy happy times

They were, but doesn't take away from the fact the football wasn't exactly exciting and we'd draw a hell of a lot of games to get to that quarterfinal IIRC.

When a national team gets to a WC finals for the first time  do the football fans actually sit down to savor the quality of their football or do the results trump all by factor x. The first is don't get beat and definitely not by Engerland, the second is to get through the group which also had the Dutch, the rest is bonus. The last 16 game was played in the afternoon's scorching heat.
In the QFs  Ireland went toe for toe v Italy, played with adventure and panache, it was just the finish from Schillaci which separated the two teams. In that cauldron, the first half was Ireland's, until the goal the home support had been silenced.
The ref gave nothing to McCarthy, every time he defended the ball against Schillaci  he blew for a foul.

Italia 90 was the nail in the coffin for defensive negativity, the goalie being allowed to pick up the back pass.