Tardelli has always been up for the fight

If Ireland are to regroup and successfully renew their World Cup campaign after Friday’s humiliation, Marco Tardelli might be the man to get the players to put it behind them.

Tardelli has always been up for the fight

For he has experienced a shocking defeat against the Germans before, although never such a battering.

The biggest disappointment of his career was against a German side, and it came less than a year after his biggest triumph.

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