Tardelli continues long-running dispute with Domenech

IRELAND’S assistant coach Marco Tardelli has kept his long-running row with France boss Raymond Domenech simmering after refusing to forgive the Frenchman for accusing his opposite number of buying the referee in an U21 match 10 years ago.

Domenech was suspended for one match and fined €6,000 for his outspoken comments before France’s Euro 2008 qualifier against Italy in August 2007.

At the time, he told Le Parisien: “I have experienced a France-Italy game in the U21s, a qualifier for the Sydney Olympics, with a bought referee. Rarely have I been so ripped off. When it happens to you once, you worry it might happen again.”