Chips are down but Brady still stands by his man

‘Ooofff!’

The grunt of relief from George Hamilton when Marc Wilson’s rasper lifted the Torshavn torpor. And the sound of endgame postponed?

“What’s seldom is beautiful,” reflected George, referring, in the main, to the Stoke man’s scoring record, but also, no doubt, moments of positivity in Irish football’s rough 2012.