THE CARIBBEAN ISLAND of Montserrat — with a population of around 5,000 — don’t win too many football matches.
In fact, up until Sunday night, the team ranked 205th in the world by Fifa had won just four times in their 27 years in international football.
And then this happened.
Hosting Belize, ranked 45 places higher than them on the international football ladder, in the Concacaf Nations League, Montserrat made sure that it was a night they will never forget.
With the sides locked at 0-0 in the 74th minute, Spencer Weir played a one-two with Adrian Clifton on the edge of the box before curling a smashing goal past Belize keeper Woodrow West:
74’ Goal Montserrat! Spencer Weir curls it perfectly into the top corner from outside the edge of the box!#CNL #TheDreamStartsNow pic.twitter.com/SBBWXEC1fY
— Concacaf Nations League (@CNationsLeague) October 14, 2018
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At least they were passing the ball.
@Mike Keane: ah no sure we don’t have the players to do that is our excuse
@Free Gallant: if we’re playing Belize we’d be fine
@Dave O Keeffe: Wales just brought on a Scun thorpe player
Thats the place that has the big Irish connection. Look up Black Irish of Montserrat
@Paddy Norton: I’m sure O’Neil is already doing that.
@Darren Byrne: they will be 305th soon so.
@Paddy Norton: Yes a lot of them have Irish ancestry.St Patrick’s Day is even a holiday on Montserrat.
@Padraig: The only other nation in the world to have it as a national holiday
@Marius Dunesto: Montserrat is not a nation, it is a British Overseas Territory
@Marius Dunesto: what about Newfoundland & Labrador in Canada?
More Irish accents on that team than our own.