An Irish newspaper based in Britain is anxious that an Irish goalkeeper based in Britain might get injured, perhaps leaving the Irish team in the disastrous situation of having to play France with an Irish keeper up until recently based in Ireland. Geddit? Neither do I.
Brian Flynn of the Irish Post is worried…
THE LACK of depth in the Irish squad was highlighted this week with news that Bohemians keeper Brian Murphy has been drafted into the Ireland squad — Coventry City’s Kieren Westwood becoming unavailable through injury.
How’s that for a bit of across-the-Irish-Sea solidarity, not?
Flynn clearly considers it beyond contemplation that a player from the league on the oul’ sod that the team is supposed to represent could be up to snuff on the international stage.
Then again, since presumably he lives on the footballing mainland, he won’t have seen too much of Murphy and has an excuse for this display of doubt, which is more than one can say for sports hacks back home.
The headline on the piece wails, ‘Given injury would be unthinkable as keepers fail to raise bar.’ One hardly wishes Shay Given ill, but in that remote eventuality it would be nice to see Brian Murphy get a chance to have Flynn reconsider his knee-jerk assertion.
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