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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
Yeah, because it's a 100% record.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
Yeah, exactly.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
Yeah, when a goalkeeper just stands there.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
Yeah, I don't like it, to be perfectly honest.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
Yeah, exactly that, Joe.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
it's well documented.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
I grew up in North London and Camden, which obviously London is one of the most cosmopolitan cities in the world and Camden even more so.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
So people I went to school with so many different faiths, but I've never experienced anything like that as a young lad or even as a player.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
Damien will tell you that sometimes when you go to away games at international level and
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
You know, the national anthems are brilliant to experience, but that felt so different.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
And I think you can see on the lads' faces that we weren't kind of like told or to expect it or anything like that.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
But it was brilliant to hear it, 100,000 people, and how kind of like...
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
I don't know, just different sound, you know, really, really kind of like a little intimidating.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
But at the same time, I think if you look at the lads, and this is something we had as a group, because we've been to some difficult places over the years, Turkey in the playoff before away, we've been to the Balkans when they were just coming out of their war and stuff like that.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
So these are tough places to go.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
But what we did have, and I think you see it there, is a kind of little bit of a nodding that the lads are like, yeah, yeah, let's get this done.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
This is something to be enjoyed.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
And when we actually walked out on that pitch as well, this massive banner just unfold, which said 3-0.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
We were thinking, oh, okay, we'll see.
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The World Cup play-off preview | Czechia v Ireland | Damien Delaney & Gary Breen
And just an amazing experience, it really was.