Enda McEvoy: Joyous tidings — it all went to plan for Ireland

Enda McEvoy reflects on how the game - and punditry - played out on TV.

Joyous tidings. Pepsi Sister arrived home from New York this morning – ie Friday am – with a bottle of impeccably hipsterish Brooklyn Gin for your correspondent. Small-batch. Hand-crafted. Hand-cracked juniper berries and freshly cut citrus peels. Maaan.

I’m looking forward to putting on a plaid shirt, growing a beard and opening the bottle around 10pm, due reward to self for having had to endure Ireland v Moldova. The obvious worry is that I may end up opening it after half an hour of mind-numbing tedium. Perhaps Moldova won’t be that bad. Perhaps Ireland will be.