Nation left to ponder what next

No points and nobody quite sure where to from here.

Strange what a difference a week or so makes.

Giovanni Trapattoni’s Republic of Ireland will beat a chastened retreat today from football’s top table, an experience soured by the margin and manner of three comprehensive and demoralising defeats in Poland.

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