Martin O'Neill
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So we were flying at the time and we thought, yeah, this is going to be fine.
We were hanging on at the end in the game and Stuttgart, I think they had a chance about 10 minutes to go in the match and had they scored then, another one would have put us out.
So that's, you know, from an almost invincible position that we were in to be hanging on at the end.
Stuttgart were a very fine side then.
So,
for us over the two games to come through, was big news for us.
Please, this is not an excuse for me.
Far, far, far, far from it.
But by 2003, I knew my squad inside out.
I knew what they could do.
I knew what physical prowess they had.
I knew what ability they had.
And so I knew them inside out.
So believe it or not, I'm still learning here about these lads.
All the time.
Mostly excellent stuff about them as well too.
But I don't know is the answer.
Well, two things.
One, it's a real surprise because I'd never counted the games.
Genuinely never.