It’s still a bit raw for him… and us.
We still think back to what might have been following that faithful day in Lyon where Ireland were in the lead against France.
We can’t help but think we’d be in a semi-final if we’d won, we’d have taken Iceland surely.
If it’s like that for us, the fans, you can multiply that times a thousand for the players who were in the cauldron in Lyon.
It’s still on James McClean’s mind at this stage as he appeared on the RTÉ highlights show last night to discuss the France and Iceland game.
Inevitably, talk turned to Ireland’s clash with France.
“Bar ten minutes of madness, we were so close…” James McClean reflects on Ireland's #EURO2016https://t.co/k0DTUUMcvy
— RTÉ Sport (@RTEsport) July 3, 2016
