Welcome to the year of the Trap
In case you hadn’t noticed, that would be the World Cup in which Irish involvement was conspicuously absent, owing to a certain incident of hand to ball by a pesky Frenchman coupled with a frankly chronic failure of imagination on the part of the blazers which meant that poor Paddy couldn’t even go to the party as a ‘plus-one’.
Aye, and let’s not spoil the fantasy by mentioning all those points dropped in qualifying or the host of chances squandered in the Stade de France.
