Close encounters of the tetchy kind - the Martin O’Neill and Tony O’Donoghue grudge match

Martin O’Neill and Tony O’Donoghue seemed to attract most public interest than the inaugural Nations League draw, writes Liam Mackey.

Even more than the renewing of not so old acquaintance with the Welsh and the Danes, it was Wednesday's stinging rematch between Martin O'Neill and Tony O'Donoghue which seemed to attract most public interest on the back of the inaugural Nations League draw.

If it’s any consolation to the RTÉ man, legendary BBC commentator John Motson has been there before him — and in infinitely more bruising circumstances — when he infamously got on the wrong side of Alex Ferguson in a post-match interview which was conducted in 1995 but considered so toxic by the BBC that it wouldn’t be screened until the documentary ‘The Ferguson Factor’ made it to air in 2002.