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Heimir Hallgrímsson Ireland Football Manager

pity about the goal and the way it happened, not Kelleher's fault but if a keeper comes he has to fet something on the ball. He really is very good now.
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Is there some researched basis to this, or is it the regular sporting conspiracy stuff you tend to post?

Their starting lineup had 10/11 with the usual Armenian -yan suffix in their surnames. Not saying that means they can't be Russian, but I call bullshit without proof.

It's not as if these lads would get the slightest whiff of a Russian squad anyway.
A few Russians and an Argentinian alright but "ringer team" is ridiculous. Not even close to what Ireland had in days gone by.
 
Is there some researched basis to this, or is it the regular sporting conspiracy stuff you tend to post?

Their starting lineup had 10/11 with the usual Armenian -yan suffix in their surnames. Not saying that means they can't be Russian, but I call bullshit without proof.

It's not as if these lads would get the slightest whiff of a Russian squad anyway.
2/3 of the team were born in Russia or play soccer in Russia and only switched to Armenia in 2023.

Yes I went over the individual birth places etc.

It makes sense that players would go play with Armenia with Russia banned.

“It's not as if these lads would get the slightest whiff of a Russian squad anyway.”

Russia who are banned?
Russia who were the best team in the world until 2023?
What are you talking about?

Also gfy.
 
2/3 of the team were born in Russia or play soccer in Russia and only switched to Armenia in 2023.

Yes I went over the individual birth places etc.

It makes sense that players would go play with Armenia with Russia banned.

“It's not as if these lads would get the slightest whiff of a Russian squad anyway.”

Russia who are banned?
Russia who were the best team in the world until 2023?
What are you talking about?

Also gfy.
Gfy right back. Your "ringer" comment was completely ott, and meant to disrespect the team that humiliated Ireland a month ago, and our next opponents. You come out with this weird disparaging shit regularly, like Leicester the other day.

You understand the word "would", yeah? None of them WOULD get near Russia, IF they had games to play.

Two of tonight's starting team played a small few underage games for Russia, that's it. Even a couple of those born in Russia played zero meaningful senior football at Russian clubs. One guy plays for Krasnodar and another played about 50 times for Lokomotiv Moscow. It's not significant. The most we could say is the chap Spertsyan who's played all his life for Krasnodar would have a crack at playing for Russia. Big fucking whoop.
 
Caoimhín was outstanding tonight even before the penalty save. If he kept a clean sheet he was def Man of the match. Cruel to lose it so late on but Portugal deserved it, they played attacking football all night while we defended.
 
Can’t fault the teams effort last night, they were very well organised and worked hard to get a result away to a very good team.

Ireland are missing one or two half decent that can create something for the likes of Ferguson/Ogbene.
 
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