At the end, Chiedozie Ogbene went down on one knee in the centre-circle and for a moment you weren’t sure whether he had been poleaxed by exhaustion or if he was thanking a higher power.
If it was the former, it was entirely deserved. If it was the latter, then you’d hope the higher power had the class to say, “No Chiedozie, thank YOU.”
The reconnection of the Irish football public to its team has been one of the base level successes of the Stephen Kenny era. You only had to sit here among the 48,808 crowd to get it. Mistakes that were groaned over before are allowed for now. There is a general warmth towards the team that was obvious even when they twice went behind here.
Yet they have their …
- March 27, 2022
