Martin O’Neill: ‘The Germany game will live forever’

Martin O’Neill has admitted he still gets “goosebumps” thinking about the Shane Long goal which earned Ireland a celebrated victory against Germany at the Aviva Stadium in October and helped pave the way for qualification for France 2016

“The game against Germany will, I think, live forever,” says the manager. “Although we lost a couple of days later against Poland, it gave us confidence to go and beat Bosnia in the play-offs, which was great for us.

“I get goosebumps now actually thinking about (the goal). The atmosphere was terrific, we were playing the world champions — which itself brings something — and we were the underdogs, we were fighting every minute to get something out of it.