Did you see it?

Oh the glorious Green and White army of Norn Iron. What a game! It took me back, over 20 years, to the beginning of Norn Iron's second period of the glory years(1980-1986)... the first being the Danny Blanchflower team of 1958. What a match, 6000 fans from home bouncing and waving and cheering, tremendous stuff. The hilarity of Robbie Savage getting sent off for... uhmmm... flashing his kecks? The irony of it, the one time he does nothing to get sent off, he walks... pure dead brilliant. Healy gesturing to his family with his arm, brilliant. A twat of a referee to completely bugger it all up, headless Welsh chickens all over the park, Norn Iron 2:0 up within 20 minutes and only 9 men left, you couldn't make this up. Even the Norn Iron team looked like their counterparts from all those years ago, 3 stone heavier, 10 yards slower and all balder than the opposition (apart from John "the Gonk" Hartson).

Check out this great fan site, our wee country, (still under construction) for a flavour of our history and what it means to follow the football might of Norn Iron.

Danny Blanchflower once said... "our tactics are the same as always, try and equalize before the other team score." Genius!

Of course we won't qualify but if we play like that we'll scare the bejesus out of some teams... engerland will sh*t themselves. Come on!

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