Jim Crawford looking to the future as U21s wrap up Euro campaign

Ireland boss insists the campaign has been far from a failure

Jim Crawford hopes to take next year's U21s to the Toulon Tournament in 2021. Picture: Harry Murphy/Sportsfile

For Jim Crawford's U21s the dream is over.

A place at the European Championships had been so close for so long. Now it lies beyond their grasp after defeat to Iceland in Tallaght last Sunday but the manager goes into today's dead-rubber in  Luxembourg (kick-off 4.30pm) claiming that the campaign has been far from a failure.