Ring tone as much as can be taken from friendly

A COLLEAGUE took away a nice memento from the otherwise forgettable friendly against Chile on Wednesday.

Sitting beside an excitable Chilean radio commentator in the press box, he had the presence of mind to activate the record button on his mobile phone at the precise moment when Manuel Ittura scored the winning goal — as a result, he is now the proud possessor of an original ring tone, consisting of the radio man’s traditional, elongated salute to a successful South American strike: “GOOOOOOOOOOOOOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOAL! GOOOOOAL! (Add o’s to suit taste).

Coming away from Lansdowne Road, our colleague played it to a few of us and we all agreed that it was a fine piece of work indeed.