A game of two halves has analysts in a spin

GILSEY, Eamo, Ronnie and even Billo himself wore the disconsolate looks of men who had been asked to manage — not merely analyse — that team.

The first thing the boys would do with that team is not to have that team in the first place.

It wasn’t exasperation. More like dismissiveness, a sort of ‘how do you expect us to do anything at all with that decrepit outfit.’