Tommy Martin: Irish soccer like George Bailey on the bridge in ‘It’s A Wonderful Life’

The term annus horribilis was used by Queen Elizabeth to describe the year 1992, in which three of her children’s marriages split up and one of her castles burnt down. Quite how horribilis things can really be when you get paid millions by the taxpayer to wave and shake hands with people was never fully looked into at the time.

Still, if 1992 was a bad year for the head of the Windsor mob, it had nothing on 2019 in Irish soccer.