A year from now...

IT’S going to take a bit of time before we’re comfortable with the Aviva roar, but we might as well get used to it.

In exactly 12 months, on August 11, 2010, the Republic of Ireland will face Diego Maradona’s Argentina in the first soccer international at Aviva Stadium, on what was once Lansdowne Road.

The new home of Irish rugby and soccer is fast approaching completion after a long wait and an eventful stint lodging at Croke Park. In between, there’s been major management upheavals in both sporting codes; not to mention a change of Taoiseach and a national and global economic slump.