Colm O'Regan: If Ireland was at Euro 2020 we would have been bate out the door

'Ireland at a tournament is like family. You have to love them but that doesn’t mean you always enjoy their company'

'Some international tournaments are so poor you watch them thinking ‘Ireland would nearly have won this’. Not this time. We had no place there.'

I jumped out of my seat. For Switzerland. Switzerland! I never cheered as loudly for anything Swiss in my life before. And I remember receiving my first Toblerone. Switzerland’s equaliser against France at 3-3 was just one of lots of moments at this Euro 2020.5 that made me punch the air.

I never thought it would come to this. There hasn’t really been a rollicking championship since Euro 2000. The year I became a man. (And by that I mean the year I watched Euro 2000).