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What does Ireland's World Cup elimination mean for the future of football in Ireland?
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Well, here we are where nobody wanted to be. It's the day after a drab, nil-all, friendly draw with North Macedonia at Lansdowne Road. That's where ultimately our World Cup dreams went to die. But the collective nature of enduring all this grief that we've all experienced together might just be the tonic to get us all through it. I'm delighted to say I'm joined by our reporter slash... Everything Irish football, Ben Symes, very welcome along. How are you coping in this bit of a dreary week since the highs of Prague, at least before the game?
yeah every so often I think I'm coping and then I just remember like 23 minutes how I felt 23 minutes into the game in the Fortuna Arena and that kind of feeling where I probably let myself go a little bit and started planning exactly how my summer was going to look like going back and forth between Mexico and Atalanta or Atalanta I should say maybe I'll be in Atalanta now who knows Bergamo does Atalanta exist? well Bergamo I suppose it's a guy wrestling Yeah, I just keep remembering it. Every couple of hours it'll pop into my head, that feeling, and I think that was exasperated by watching Czechia come out on top in a penalty shootout again last night. Look, I'm in two minds with this and the Ireland camp are in two minds with this as well.
We were speaking to Hamer and John O'Shea last night and one thinks it's, Hamer actually thinks it's quite good that we lost on penalties to the team that ended up going there. John O'Shea is in a bit more of, oh God, we were so close to that and we should have had that over the line type of camp.
Yeah, I think it was a massive opportunity missed and ultimately we'll look back at this as a huge opportunity to get to the first World Cup for the men's team since 2002. If you're wondering where Matthew Brennan is, we've sent him out on the ground, hard-hitting journalism, fact-finding mission assignment. I actually don't know where he is. He's trying to find himself. He's doing work and he's going to jump on hopefully at some stage during the next 45, 50 minutes. But I suppose last night we'll just get straight into it and we'll just... Before we kind of look back at the whole kind of campaign as a whole, we'll go just straight for the game last night. 0-0 against North Macedonia. You were there, Ben, up in the press box.
I was down beside the Macedonian bench. What's your ultimate takeaway from last night?
My takeaways are that, as Gavin Kearney called it, the contractual obligations game happened. It was there. It happened. And it's gone. That's pretty much all you can say really. If we're being real, we kind of knew the game was going to pan out the way it did. Masoni tried to kill the game like five minutes in. There was a moment where I think it was the left-back Sebastian Herrera who was only second cap for Masoni. He's only received citizenship quite recently. Yeah, born in Colombia. Yeah, born in Colombia. It's a mad story. He's now playing with Boric Banjaluca in Bosnia and Herzegovina but the ball kind of looked like it was coming to his feet and he just let it go by him for a throw in five minutes into the game no need to do it other than to kill time and it told us all that we need to know about that game
What were the highs and lows of Ireland's recent football campaign?
Yeah, yeah. It was, yeah, look, it's not a game that's going to live long in the memory. But I think the things that happen outside of the game, like the fans turning up, the reception for Seamus Coleman, which we'll get on to, some of the post-match comments as well from Himmerhal Grimson, from Jason Lumby, Boston Lawal.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What does Ireland's World Cup elimination mean for the future of football in Ireland?
0:00–3:52
2
What were the highs and lows of Ireland's recent football campaign?
3:52–9:40
3
How significant are Seamus Coleman's contributions to the Irish football team?
9:40–14:05
4
Who are the emerging leaders in the current Irish football squad?
14:05–19:47
5
What role do new players like Bosun Lawal and James Abankwah play in the team's future?
19:47–24:38
6
How can fans support the Irish football team leading up to Euro 2028?
24:38–30:06
7
What are the key principles for Ireland's football identity moving forward?
30:06–35:23
8
How do fans feel about the current state of Irish football after recent performances?
35:23–54:42
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