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NEVER BEFORE has an Irish side played for so valuable a prize as such overwhelming favourites.

Kanu is the man to drag Nigerian football away from the self-destruct button threatening to detonate their chances of success in this summer’s Far East football extravaganza.

There cannot be too many goalkeepers throughout the world capable of holding onto their international place after conceding five goals in one game - but Oliver Kahn managed to do just that.