Northern Ireland 1:0 England

The glorious magnificence that is Norn Iron and The Green and White Army. Fabulous stuff. Woof! Lost my voice early on in the game but the whole street knew when David Healy hammered in the winner.

It's been nearly 24 years since I last stood on the Spion Kop at Windsor Park in Belfast cheering on, the then, heroes of Billy Bingham against Scotland in our penultimate World Cup qualifier for Spain '82. It was October '81 and the result was a tense 0:0 draw. At the time we thought it meant the end of our qualification dream but other results that night left us having to beat Israel at Windsor Park the following month. We did, and the rest is history.

But last night, last night those 15,000 Norn Iron souls made more noise than I've ever heard before from such a crowd. A credit to themselves and our country. Fantastic stuff and all the more sweeter that it was against England and broadcast, primetime around the entire country. Get it rite up ye!

As I predicted way back in September last year, if we managed to play like we did against Wales in Cardiff then England would be sh*tting themselves. They didn't heed the warning, and got well and truly gubbed.

The better team, the better fans, the better manager...won. WE EXIST!

Our Wee Country