iwasthere2012 wrote:nottsblue wrote:iwasthere2012 wrote:Right strap yourselves in for another 0-0 and penalties.
C’mon Ireland. (Can’t help myself)
The last six play off games have all ended 0-0. Shocking stuff. Maybe teams are just too scared to lose they don't try their hardest for fear off losing?
I blame Mourinho and the press who laud his boring stalemates a "masterclass"
We’re the United of the Internationsl world?
That’s a bit harsh.
No need for that NB.
We’ve just gone a goal up.
That’s the worst thing that can happen this Irish team in the past.
Hope they don’t try and defend it for 90 minutes.
Me nerves.
Not having a go at the Irish IWT, more an observation that a lot of teams, which happen to include both Irish teams as it happens, were perhaps not as adventurous as they could have been. Now, the prize of a place at a World Cup might be a mitigating circumstance to be fair.
My point was a 0-0 is at present being lauded by a lot of pundits and media in general as being a good result. They had this discussion to a degree on the Sunday Supplement a few weeks ago whereMartin Samuels called the other panellists out by saying a 0-0 is a failure both in the object of the game, which is of course to win by out scoring your opponent and by the value of entertainment.