ROI 3 Canada 0 from Landsdowne Road, Dublin.
Canada have a good enough side to be competitive in the English Second Division. Jason Bent is a donkey, McKenna, Middlesbrough-born Richard Hastings, and Paul Stalteri, with the exception of one exquisite ball in the first half (which, in hindsight, was most likely a mistake) are horrific players, the likes of which I haven't seen outside McBride and Connaught Parks in Kitsilano.
That said, Canada deserved at least a goal in this and the 3-0 greatly flatters the Irish who had nothing special apart from Damien Duff. The Oirish commentators who we were subjected to made John Motson sound lucid and would have been worthy of an aggressive letter-writing campaign to Sky were it not for the fact that none of them were Vic Rauter or the assorted Dazza-esque eejits you poor sods are subjected to on your t.v. Duff scored a nice goal that would never have been had Canada's fullbacks not frozen like KNVB at the sight of Ballbaby's missus. At times Canada made the Irish look like The Netherlands. It was just like watching Scotland and had Radzinski and Pesch not been such short-arsed pests Canada could have come away with a draw.
Canada's subs all came on too late apart from someone called Patrice who found it necessary to genuflect before taking to the field. Despite God's obvious intervention this chap failed to even touch the ball. Unlucky. Marc Bircham needs to be singled out for particular praise for being the only 'Canadian' to sing along to the National Anthem. Not only did he sing but he belted the cnut. Not bad for a lad who didn't actually visit Canada until he'd won his first couple caps. Brutal, the rest of them should be ashamed.
Canada have a good enough side to be competitive in the English Second Division. Jason Bent is a donkey, McKenna, Middlesbrough-born Richard Hastings, and Paul Stalteri, with the exception of one exquisite ball in the first half (which, in hindsight, was most likely a mistake) are horrific players, the likes of which I haven't seen outside McBride and Connaught Parks in Kitsilano.
That said, Canada deserved at least a goal in this and the 3-0 greatly flatters the Irish who had nothing special apart from Damien Duff. The Oirish commentators who we were subjected to made John Motson sound lucid and would have been worthy of an aggressive letter-writing campaign to Sky were it not for the fact that none of them were Vic Rauter or the assorted Dazza-esque eejits you poor sods are subjected to on your t.v. Duff scored a nice goal that would never have been had Canada's fullbacks not frozen like KNVB at the sight of Ballbaby's missus. At times Canada made the Irish look like The Netherlands. It was just like watching Scotland and had Radzinski and Pesch not been such short-arsed pests Canada could have come away with a draw.
Canada's subs all came on too late apart from someone called Patrice who found it necessary to genuflect before taking to the field. Despite God's obvious intervention this chap failed to even touch the ball. Unlucky. Marc Bircham needs to be singled out for particular praise for being the only 'Canadian' to sing along to the National Anthem. Not only did he sing but he belted the cnut. Not bad for a lad who didn't actually visit Canada until he'd won his first couple caps. Brutal, the rest of them should be ashamed.