Phil Egan

I think that was it, wasn't it?

It was set in from an early age.

to be there for these moments.

The weird thing for me is that like the first kind of World Cup game I remember watching is Ireland against Cameroon in 0-2.

But just have these weird memories of like what happened the day before and France being beaten by Senegal.

Definitely didn't watch that game because we were all at school or maybe it was just before we started school that Friday morning.

But I'm not mistaken saying Ireland was the second game of that World Cup.

The first game of day two.

So like the shockwaves had been sent out from the France-Senegal game.

And just, I remember being vaguely aware of it despite having not watched the kick of that game.

But yeah, that was it.

That was the high bar.

Ireland in a World Cup thought it was going to be always the case.

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Dion has also covered many major tournaments and here he recalls the Battle of Marseille at the Euros in 2016 when some Russian and English football fans clashed.

Sunday I think was, Monday was the game, Sunday was

day of the full-scale riot in Marseille.

We had gone out to kind of an Irish bar just outside Marseille.

I was staying in a hotel about 50 kilometers outside Marseille, it was the only place I could find, with a journalist, a news reporter from the Observer.

And he was driving.