They say those in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
But as the Ireland squad rocks into Estadio Algarve in Faro, Portugal tonight, they'll realise the task of beating the world's 178th best team just became a great deal more difficult.
That's if they caught today's edition of the Irish Independent.
I mean, it's natural that Gibraltar would seek to take advantage of the Granny Rule, but they're taking the piss here...
We're ones to talk, and I don't mean Irish football fans turning a blind eye to our occasional reliance on foreign ancestry.
On Tuesday the Independent were kind enough to include our photo-editing wizard Ricky Mooney's 'Irish Rugby World Cup Squad By County' infographic, and swiftly corrected our heinous error which had Wicklow's Luke Fitzgerald listed as a Dub.
We feel the Indo's pain today as they will no doubt face the ire of sarcastic 'predicted lineup police,' some of the worst bastards in world football. And, as a group of eejits who spend too long each day correcting our mistakes, we wouldn't wish it on anybody else.
Both in the interest of fairness and as a token of our appreciation for the Independent's sparing of our blushes earlier in the week, we reckoned it would be rude not to return the favour.
We've also made just one adjustment to the Indo's Ireland lineup, but it's one that collectively we feel very strongly about.
For were an umlaut-heavy front three of Schürrle, Götze and Müller to be parachuted into Faro tonight, surely only one man could possibly save us...
Kick off in Gibraltar is at 7:45pm.
H/T: Sean Leamy
