Green and wear it for big matches, fans told

SOCCER fans have been urged to green and wear it for Ireland’s upcoming internationals as part of a game plan to inject new colour and life into the stands on big match days.

Some 40,000 green cards will be on the seats in Lansdowne for the European Championship qualifiers against Albania on Saturday and Georgia next Wednesday and fans are to hold them up in jigsaw fashion so the team can’t tell pitch from public when they emerge from the tunnel.

The FAI is giving out 22 giant tricolours to drape around the venue and will also fly the monster 60 feet high, 100 feet long version presented to the Irish squad by the city of Izumo in Japan, the team’s training base during the World Cup.