Ireland United needs to add shades of Cruyff to its white socks

IN my letter to you (September 24) I urged the paramount necessity of avoiding the use of the language of vilification in all conversation concerning the Green and the Orange in Ireland as a kind of way of honouring the symbolism of the Irish Tricolour.

Ireland United needs to add shades of Cruyff to its white socks
Wed, 19 Oct, 2005 - 01:00

On last Wednesday night at Lansdowne Road an Irish team faced the Tricolour and sang the Irish national anthem.

They lined out in green and white with hardly a trace of orange to be seen. It seems that the orange of the Irish flag remains something of an afterthought or an embarrassment.

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