Home, sweet home for fans

THREE years it took to build the Aviva Stadium, but three seconds was all it apparently took to get a pint of Guinness there.

Without a World Cup qualifier or an autumn international to occupy their minds, the pleasure was in the detail for the majority of punters sampling the new €410million stadium for the first time on a match day.

And being served their pint of plain in a fraction of the time normally taken – eight seconds at my count – thanks to fast-pour taps, left the majority surprised with the outcome.