another glorious draw

Ireland v. Israel World Cup Qualifier: The match starts with an English official marking off one quarter of the pitch, giving it to Israelis, supplying their defence with anything they need, while the Irish run around at random, often into each other, and score several goals against themselves. Well, it would have been more entertaining than what actually happened.

So, after 11 minutes, we're two goals up, and everyone's predecting a place in the World Cup Final and the rest of that. Then we give away two very, very, stupid goals - both via fouls, one a free kick and the other a penalty - and spend the rest of the game not scoring. Ireland 2, Israel 2, but on the night I think it's safe to say that Ireland were the losers.