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Thu 08 Aug 2009Ireland are given Socceroos lessons
Rep of Ireland 0 Australia 3: IF IT wasn’t for the fact that his own side was beaten 6-1 by Albania, Cyprus coach Angelos Anastasiadis would surely have been pleased by the thought of last night’s game at Thomond Park being the central plank of the Republic of Ireland’s preparations for next month’s trip to Nicosia.
Giovanni Trapattoni will have been somewhat alarmed by the way his side defended against the Australians, however, and the 19,428 who came along to witness a rare appearance by the Republic’s soccer stars outside Dublin sounded distinctly underwhelmed at the end.
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