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.

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.