Phil Egan

And how does one report on a riot for The Observer?

Is he there with a notebook in front of him?

He just disappeared.

And I was like, well, okay, I'll wander around.

You should have got a great copy out of that.

But yeah, but at the same time, you're also...

It was a riot.

And there wasn't really any... I had no press vest.

I was just like somebody in the middle of a riot who looked like... I didn't look like an English hooligan, but I looked more like an English person than somebody from Marseille.

And so I just wandered around the riot for a while.

got bored and decided I'd try and make my way back to the Irish bar which was very which was quite scary too because there was just a lot of there was a lot of trouble that night and so wandering I don't know actually I don't know what happened what happened to that guy and after South Africa's poor showing against Mexico last night there was some conversation on whether Ireland would have done well in group A if they had qualified instead of the Czechs we want to top this group

I know.

It's really hard.

You know, like it's, no, it's just, it is tough thinking, you know, the parallel world we could be in right now.

Guadalajara, looking forward to Mexico.

Just, no, it's like, you know, I was very strong on this idea that like everything that happened in the autumn and November was just, you know, enjoy it for what it was.

It didn't matter what happened.

Didn't matter if we didn't get to the World Cup at the end of it.

And I still hold on to that.

But today there were some moments when the game in Prague...