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Milk bottles and the other Italia 90-related things that will make you feel old
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1. Robbie Brady wasn’t born until two years after it
2. Milk doesn’t even come in glass bottles like this anymore
3. Robert Prosinecki, the man voted best young player at the tournament…
… now looks like this:
4. You wouldn’t have a hope in hell doing this at the Walkinstown Roundabout these days with all the traffic
5. All of this lot are now top managers:
Carlo Ancelotti
Dunga
Jurgen Klinsmann
6. These were all number ones in Ireland that year:
7. Danny Blind’s son plays for the Netherlands and Manchester United
8. Dances With Wolves and Kevin Costner won Best Picture and Best Director at the Oscars that year
9. Ireland finished second from bottom in the Five (not Six) Nations thanks to one win and three defeats
10. Sky Sports weren’t around for another two years while England’s top flight was the First Division, not the Premier League
11. And Liverpool were champions. Manchester United, meanwhile, hadn’t won a title in 23 years
12. We’ve sadly lost the man who shared our elation on the RTE panel throughout the tournament
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