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Thu 10 Oct 2008Single-goal ration at Croke Park may be sign of the post-Tiger times
THE MORE things change the more they remain the same. World Cup soccer came to Croke Park for the first time last night but there was very little which felt exotic about a game played out between gusts and showers on Jones's Road.
For Giovanni Trapattoni, our venerable Italian manager, it was the first competitive game in the Gaelic shrine. You can take the man out of Italy but you can't take Italy out of the man, however. Ireland scored after four minutes and we settled in for some fun. Wrong! We are in the hairshirt era.
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