Ireland must mix traditional grunt with guile

Lunacy, he said. That’s a strong word. An emotive word, writes Brendan O’Brien.

“These boys (Serbia) play in big, big leagues,” Martin O’Neill told RTÉ’s Tony O’Donoghue last Monday evening in Belgrade.

“Actually, they gave it away a few times. The conditions didn’t help but we have not come here expecting to control the game for 90 minutes in an away game against Serbia. That’s lunacy.”