Seasoned Séamus Coleman remains Ireland’s spiritual leader ahead of seismic showdown
Ireland’s head coach Heimir Hallgrimsson at the Fortuna Arena in Prague, Czechia. Photo: Stephen McCarthy/Sportsfile
With everything that is going on in the world right now, it’s probably inappropriate to make quips about a Prague Spring, feelings of joy and liberation tempered by a degree of trepidation about the likelihood of a brutal reality.
But we are at the stage where the only angle of tonight’s play-off in the Fortuna Arena that hasn’t been exhausted is the analogies.