Rico ready to get the round ball rolling at Aviva

HISTORY in the making. The first round ball kicked in the new home of Irish football.

Rico ready to get the round ball rolling at Aviva

A crowd expected to be in the region of 40,000. Giovanni Trapattoni looking on. And Manchester United providing the opposition.

There might be no shortage of reasons why this evening’s game at the Aviva Stadium should be memorable but if Damien Richardson has one message above all others for his Airtricity League players, it’s a simple but insistent one: play the game, not the occasion.

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