Gavin Cooney WE REMEMBER JOHN O’Shea’s many successes, but one of his biggest disappointments was swept away by a wave of national exuberance. Robbie Brady unleashed the tidal wave with his winning goal against Italy at Euro 2016 , with O’Shea forced to watch from the bench. Having started both of the previous group games as captain, O’Shea was one of four front-liners dropped in the wake of the 3-0 trouncing by Belgium.
“That’s exactly what happens in management and in tournament football”, said O’Shea earlier this week when the topic was raised. “We needed to get a win. It wasn’t nice, of course it wasn’t. I had played every game in the previous 10 or 11 years. But you that this is going to happen in your career at some stage.” Given O’Neill’s style was to name the team a couple of hours before kick-off, O’Shea wasn’t sure he was going to be dropped until the evening of the game, but says a couple of his team-mates had heard mutterings to that effect. “Ultimately, it was straight forward for m
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