Liam Mackey: Mick and Ireland play the waiting game

It’s the European Championship Finals draw which puts the hype in hypothetical for Ireland and 15 other nations.

Mick McCarthy’s team will be in today’s draw for the Euro 2020 finals but, like the other countries who have yet to negotiate play-offs, they won’t know until the end of March if they will actually get to participate in the tournament itself and, in Ireland’s case, get to host games at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin.