Gary excited about the wearing of the Breen

Fourteen years on from the World Cup finals in Japan and Korea, when he scored for Ireland against Saudi Arabia, Gary Breen is still being followed around the place by one of the daftest and most memorable of the Green Army’s all-time greatest hits.

Altogether now: “We all live in a team of Gary Breens, a team of Gary Breens, a team of Gary Breens…”

“The reality is you wouldn’t win many games if you had a team of Gary Breens,” the man himself says with a smile, while on a visit to Dublin to promote a Spar competition which will see a new team of Gary Breens — including the real one — travelling to France to support Martin O’Neill’s men at the Euros.