Bragging rights for Republic
But the die-hards haven’t gone away, you know.
After a week of historic bridge-building, the local supporters managed to roll back time by roundly booing the playing of ‘God Save The Queen’ — the first time the anthem was ever heard in the Republic before a north-south football match — and then treating the small but noisy band of travelling supporters at the Havelock Square end to a rendition or two of ‘There’s only one team in Ireland’ and, a newer one, ‘Do you want to play for us?’.