Tag: 1990 World Cup

  • Not ideal but it would certainly add to the excitement

    Not ideal but it would certainly add to the excitement

    Genoa, Italy, June 1990. An utterly forgettable game of football at that summer’s World Cup is completely overshadowed by an occurance which merits accreditation as surely the most dramatic Irish sporting moment of all time. A nation did indeed hold its breath as David O’Leary of Arsenal blasted Ireland into the last eight of the…