Ireland 0 Belgium 3: When Ireland’s Euro 2016 isn’t being very different to Ireland’s Euro 2012, it’s being, well, much too alarmingly like it.

IT WAS the greatest fairy-story in Polish football history. Lechia Gdansk were a third-division club but they beat Widzew Lodz, Slask Wroclaw and Ruch Chorzow on their way to the 1983 Polish Cup final.