Wenger deal a cause for real joy

SINCE I consider myself an Irishman by marriage (albeit without any bureaucratic bits of paper to prove it), I was following the Boys in Green on Saturday evening, frightening the poor dog with my raucous reaction to Kevin Doyle’s corker.

It was indeed, as stated on Sky TV’s coverage, “a goal good enough to win any game”. Although from such giddy heights of euphoria, it was that much further to fall when the Slovaks equalised in injury time.

If I were a drinker I would’ve joined all the other Ireland fans, filling my pint glass with my lachrymose lamentations for the remainder of the night.