Fucking hell, move on.
We're Irish, it's what we do. Five minutes after Robbie Brady scored the next most famous Irish goal in history, or rather - when we finally got our senses back after said goal - our minds started to drift towards Sunday.
The Last 16 clash with the French. 99% of Irish minds will have been cast back to 2009. That handball. We want revenge. We all had that thought. Eamonn Dunphy said it best:
Dunphy's views on playing France. 👏 #coybig pic.twitter.com/JO5CZyNKh4
— Balls.ie (@ballsdotie) June 22, 2016
In fact, since the referee refused to award Ireland a penalty for the gross bodily harm on James McClean last night, karma means we're going to get a penalty for a French handball.
It's only right.
But Robbie Keane, Ireland's leading caps holder and goalscorer, is having none of it. There will be no talk of revenge at all:
Yeah I was there. I will not think about that for one second. How long ago was it? Seven years. Fucking hell, move on.
This is why we play the game. We're playing against another good team, but we knew that if we were going to get out of the group, we were going to play top teams and we're playing the hosts.
Wouldn't it be great in the home country to knock them out?
Wouldn't it just?
[Irish Examiner]
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