Mark Kinsella feels history will repeat itself over the next 12 months when it comes to revamping Ireland’s international squad.

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Joey Barton was expected to watch Queen’s Park Rangers’ Barclays Premier League clash with Wigan from the stands after failing to register with the club in time to play.

IT’S one of those Irish football yarns that is so delicious you almost have to assume it’s apocryphal. But here, from the horse’s mouth, is confirmation that every word of the great Terry Mancini ‘national anthem’ legend is true.