TV View: No joy for John O’Shea as Swiss complicate Irish role

Sammie Szmodics in action against Switzerland's Michel Aebischer during a match that didn't go to plan for Ireland. Photograph: Dan Sheridan/Inpho

But. “The second and final game for this regime ... well, we think anyway,” said Tommy Martin when he welcomed us to Virgin Media’s coverage of the game, himself none the wiser either about where this manager-seeking rigmarole will take us.Republic of Ireland 0 Switzerland 1 - as it happened Georgia won. “It’s reminiscent of an Ulster final in Clones,” said Tommy as we watched the celebrations in Tbilisi, Greece’s Poyet now most likely heading for the jobcentre. But? “Roberto Di Matteo has been spotted with FAI CEO Jonathan Hill,” Tommy told us, with viewers by now in need of a lie down.

“Hasn’t he the funniest shape of any player in the Premier League? He’s like a bloke that you might see standing outside the pub on a Sunday morning with his boots in his bag, saying ‘I wonder where we’re playing today?’ And a white van comes along and picks him up. He’s a little chunky fellah, about 5ft3in, he’s wide at the hips – that’s probably being generous to him – and the jersey looks like it’s bed in to him. If he lived in Dublin, he’d be called a ‘Barreller’.

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