TWENTY-FOUR YEARS ago, Alan McLoughlin was the hero who made Irish dreams come true and sent the country to the World Cup.
Now he’s calling on the current generation of Irish stars to seize their opportunity and slay the Welsh dragon in Cardiff on Monday night.
McLoughlin, who scored the historic equaliser that gave Ireland a 1-1 draw against Northern Ireland in Windsor Park and sent them to USA 94, recounted the story of how he was first called up to the Boys in Green.
“I got back to my house and I had two letters,” he said in a short video produced as part of Three’s #TheCallUp campaign.
“I opened up the first one and it was from England. I had been called up to the England B team to play the Republic of Ireland.
“I got about six letters down, a brown envelope. Thankfully I opened that up and it said that I had been called up to the Irish B team to play against England.
“It was a no-brainer, right from that moment.”
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Given as your sub keeper kind of makes a mockery of the whole article
Never make a defender Captain… It’s a GOLDEN RULE, even if he has a double games week or is a potent goal scorer like Gary “The Doc” Doherty, you never make him a captain…
It’s a negative tactic that limits your chance of getting the most out of your squad for that week!
But good luck with it…
Goalkeeper: Gordon banks
Defenders: cafu. Maldini. Roberto Carlos. Beckenbauer
Midfield: Ronaldo. Ronaldinho. Kaka. Zico
Strikers Messi. Pele. Real Ronaldo. Maradona And Fionn Dillon Kelly
Managed by Steve Staunton.
What do you think???
It is not as simple as Rvp is worth two Ricky van Wolfswinkel. you still need another two forwards. Having Rvp means something like Rvp or Anelka over Soldado and Negredo/Benteke/Sturridge. I know which one i prefer. The second one is cheaper too
My team is
Mignolet, Lewis
Terry, Toure, Collins, Michael Turner, Chester
Hazard(c), Walcott, Michu, Mirallas, Jedinak
Benteke, Soldado, Lukaku
Foster
Toure Coleman Terry
Coutinho Mirrales Hazard (c) Nolan
RVP Lukaku Dzeko
Gazzaniga Lucas Brayford Ramage
Mata isn’t fully fit, despite being left out of the Spain squad, I doubt he will play both games in the double gameweek, Hazard is probably a better option.
Cech(V)
Baines, Jagielka, Vertonghen, Assou-Ekotto
Fellaini, Hoolahan, Carrick, Taarabt
Berbatov,Van Persie(C)
Vorn, Rodallega, Diame, O’Shea
Alvaro Negredo I think.
My team:
Vorm azoplicueta kompany agger dembele kagawa coutinho Michu
Rvp dzeko bony
Boruc
Baker, Martin, Baines,
Michu, Gerrard, Lampard(C), Hazard,
Dzeko, RVP, Anelka.
Mignolet; Riether, Coleman, Zabaleta; Coutinho (v), Downing, Snodgrass, Hazard (c); Anelka, Sturridge, RvP.
that’s a brutal team.
cech
distan luiz mertesacker baines
Mata cazorla silva diame
dzeko giroud.
Mignolet Zabaleta Mertesacker Ivanovic(V) Azpillicuta Fellaini Hazard(C) Coutinho Anelka Aspas & RVP(natch).
Gk mignolet
Ivanovic vidic whittaker zabletta
Y toure kagawa coutinho dembele
Rvp Capt podolski
Subs boruc baker shelvey anelka
Here goes.
Marshall (GKP)
Baines (DEF)
Ivanovic (DEF)
Zabaleta (DEF)
Shelvey (MID)
Mata (MID)
Coutinho (MID) vc
Santi Cazorla (MID)
Ba (FWD) cpt
Bony (FWD)
Anelka (FWD)
Subs
Boruc (GKP)
Figueroa (DEF)
Kim (MID)
Diakité (DEF)
Lloris
Walker Zabeleta Ivanovic Baines
Couthino (C) Allen Ben Arfa
Dzeko Benteke (V) Bony
Given Mertszacker Cabaye Snodgrass
Mignolet
Williams. Kompany Baines
Santi Cazorla,Gerrard,Cabaye,Hazard,
V.Wonswinkel, Benteke, Berbatov
Mannone.
Ivanovic, Riether, Evans.
Brady, Hoolahan, Garvan, Mata (c).
Benteke, RVP, Soldado.
Begovic
Baines Williams Luis Lugano
Miralles (V)Hazard Cleverly
Vydra (C)Van Persie Lukaku
Starting 11:
Lloris
Vidic G.Johnson Luiz
Nolan Walcott Essien Yaya Toure
Lambert Rooney Podolski
Subs : Davis Redmond Shaw Garrido
Nice team lad