It really isn’t that long ago, no more than a sprinkling of months, that we were looking forward to international nights with much the same anticipation as we’d have had for root canal work.
But the gloom has lifted significantly of late, and if you’d limbered up for the friendly against Lithuania by watching our under-21 people’s 2-0 win away to Sweden, then the spring in your step would have had your head hitting off the ceiling.
“Are we overhyping this?” asked Joanne Cantwell, questioning her own exhilaration.
“Noooooooo,” said Stephen Kelly, rather emphatically, the consensus in the end in the RTÉ studio that this was a result that should have had us dancing on the ceiling.
The Euro 2023 qualifier, incidentally, took place in the Swedish city of Boras, which – morto – some of us had barely heard of.
So you’d be fairly sure there’d be no supporters there to hail the mighty victory.
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- March 30, 2022
