Robbie Keane finishes in style for fairytale farewell

Ireland 4 Oman 0: The perfect finish for the perfect finisher.

The beauty of Robbie Keane’s final night in an Irish shirt wasn’t just that he got the goal a nation craved, the goal which closes his Irish goal account on a staggering 68 and which sees him draw level in the all-time charts with the legendary Gerd Muller.

It was that the goal that put him there was like something he pulled out of his own career highlights reel, an instinctive piece of penalty box invention which would have graced any game, at any level.