Shane Long and Roy Keane slam ‘unfair’ paucity of tickets for Irish fans

Roy Keane and Shane Long have put the boot in on Uefa’s decision to allocate just 4,604 tickets to Republic of Ireland supporters for today’s Euro 2016 knockout clash with hosts France at the Stade de Lyon.

With a capacity of just under 60,000, those Irish fans lucky enough to actually secure entry will be heavily outnumbered by their French hosts when the game kicks off at 2pm Irish time.

“It’s scandalous really, considering how good our support is,” said Long who, like the rest of Martin O’Neill’s playing squad, has large numbers of friends and family here in France eager to be among the lucky recipients.