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Mon 11 Nov 2008'Maradona of the Crumlins' to herald new era in Irish soccer
TV VIEW:IT WOULDN'T be entirely accurate to say that last week marked the launch of the "Bring Back Steve Staunton and Eddie O'Sullivan, All Is Forgiven" campaigns, but we did detect in our RTÉ football and rugby panels a slight disenchantment with the new regimes, even if Giovanni Trapattoni and Declan Kidney have only been in their respective posts a wet week or six.
The exile of Andy Reid continued to exercise Billo and the boys on Wednesday night, after Ireland were blessed to only lose 3-2 to Poland, the defending so nightmarishly Nicosian you reckoned it was Denis Irwin, Paul McGrath, Kevin Moran and Chris Hughton we should be urging Trapattoni to recall.
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