Nation left to ponder what next
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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