I think we had a bit of our own delusion about the Irish team.Commenting about the paraguay v japan match and the poor quality in it the RTE presenter and Giles and Brady began to moan about how the irish teAM WOULD HAVE been much better than either of these teams and would probably have given a very good account of themselves if they had qualified.This silly talk totally ignored the fact that italy and France who got there after getting the better of the irish team , could not even get out of their group.
The programme after it had heavily criticised the defensive nature of japan v paraguay then showed a clip of our golden moment when we beat romania on penalties and packies save and dave o leARYS GOAL. THERE WAS TOTAL AMNESIA ABOUT OUR TOTALLY NEGATIVE TACTICS AND THE FACT THAT iRELAND WERE PLAYING FOR PENALTIES. Not blaming Jack Charltons tactics, in being totally negative as we were playing against a much more skillful team.