More positives for Ireland in Poznan

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Lovely place, lovely people and, as all those tricolours on display in the windows of the shops and pubs in the old town confirmed again, there’s always an especially warm welcome for the Irish, even when they come as a trickle rather than a torrent. Indeed, in a wonderful gesture, the home crowd applauded all the way through the visitors’ anthem just before kick off last night.

As footballing hosts, however, the place has not always tended to be so gracious a host to the green.