‘Historic day’ as Euro 20 dream becomes a reality

FAI chief executive John Delaney has described the success of Dublin’s bid to host games at the Euro 2020 finals as "a holy grail" for Irish football.

“It’s an historic day,” he said, speaking after yesterday’s announcement by Uefa in Geneva. “We’ve achieved a holy grail, really, that I think, in the past, people would have felt we couldn’t achieve. And, as an Irishman, I’m just over the moon about it.”

Although he said the FAI were honoured to be selected as one of the 13 host associations for the pan-European finals in six years’ time, he was at pains to stress the collective nature of the Irish bid.