Liam Brady on Ireland v Denmark: For Irish football, the stakes have rarely been higher

Irish teams have had very few opportunities to qualify for a major tournament on home soil.

When I was playing in the side that beat Bulgaria 2-0 at Lansdowne Road in 1987 to finish our European Championship qualifying campaign on 11 points, none of us —including the manager, Jack Charlton — thought that total was going to be good enough to get us to the finals in Germany.