Jack’s farewell to Lansdowne

IT was no love affair.

Thu, 23 Aug, 2007 - 01:00

Juno McEnroe

Former legendary Irish manager Jack Charlton had no regrets seeing the demolition of Lansdowne Road Stadium yesterday.

There was a bright future for Irish football with the planned 50,000 capacity venue for 2009, he stressed. It would certainly be a better start for teams compared with his first competitive games there as manager in 1988.

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