Nations League draw: Haven’t we met somewhere before?

New competition, new anthem, new trophy — but more than a touch of the same old story for Martin O’Neill and Ireland in Lausanne yesterday.

Uefa were happy to hail the draw for the inaugural Nations League as an historic day for European football but when the balls came out of the pot it was a case of history — and recent history at that — repeating itself for the Irish.

Wales and Denmark — as O’Neill himself put it, “déjà vu, isn’t it, really?”