Back in attack

SHUT your eyes and cast your minds back to Euro 88. Now, just this once, forget about Stuttgart and Ray Houghton.

Think instead about a game a few days later, Ireland's final group match in Gelsenkirchen against a Dutch side blessed with talents of Ruud Gullit, Frank Rijkaard and Marco van Basten.

Jack's army are just a draw away from a semi-final spot and the Dutch are huffing and puffing until a mis-hit Ronald Koeman shot finds Wim Kieft in an offside position. Kieft's header hits the deck in front of Packie Bonner and then takes off on a bizarre trajectory which takes the ball looping over the bamboozled Irish keeper and sends the Dutch into the last four.