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Ireland’s position as the undisputed fan Kings of world football is under serious threat after a country with a population less than one tenth of ours turned football’s pecking order upside down last night, and celebrated like it was always going to happen.
The engagement between players and fans last night in Nice was a wonderful reaction to an amazing football performance that saw them fully deserving of a Quarter Final place against France on Sunday. They did the same after victory over Austria earlier in the tournament.
It’s simple, and in many ways the perfect expression of how players and fans are two sides of the one equation. That can often be forgotten in days of multi million wage packets and perhaps it could only have been a team whose main forward works in a filling station during the winter to supplement what he earns from football.
It was amazing to watch and if you left as the final whistle blew you will have missed the moment of the Championships so far as the Iceland players went to the corner of the ground where their fans and family were gathered and joined in with this…
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