GAWA: Thirteen to one – Not odds, but odd. NI World Cup Qualifying 2010
A glorious late summer day in Bratislava greeted the long snake of green-shirted fans heading through the narrow streets to the Tehelne Pole Stadium. Apartment…
George McCartney
GAWA: Baking a dozen in Northern Europe – NI Euro 2008 Qualifying
So a respectable enough showing in the previous World Cup campaign had Northern Ireland enjoying life in the mid-noughties. Manager Sanchez had now got a…
GAWA: “Oh Sammy Sammy, Sammy Sammy Sammy Sammy McIlroy” – NI World Cup Qualifying 2002
The chant had echoed many times around my formative visits to Windsor Park. It was more than a dozen years since I had heard it…