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9th July 2014
10:10am BST

Luckily, at least we had Eamon Dunphy on hand for some perspective, some reason, a moderate approximation of the whole thing to send us off to sleep decompressed.
"FOOTBALL AS WE KNOW IT IS DOOMED, BILL!" he blathered. "LOOK AT ENGLAND! LOOK AT WALES! LOOK AT SCOTLAND! RAGBALL ROVERS!"
"Ah now, Eamon..." said Liam.
"NO LIAM! DOOMED I TELLS YA! WE'VE WITNESSED ARMAGEDDON TONIGHT AND I FOR ONE (switches to quiet voice to indicate gravitas) am shocked, and appalled, and SADDENED that a team that once featured Pele, Jairzinho and Ronaldo are reduced to this.
"And look at Ireland! Ireland will never produce another John Giles, another Liam Brady, we may as well run for the hills Bill! I'm going beyond the wall, there's nothing for me here now, NOTHING!"
Time for Gilesy: "He's right, Bill."
Disclaimer: None of this is verbatim, and JOE had had a few shandies when Eamon went on his rant, but we like to think this is a decent reconstruction of events.

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