League of Ireland legend and Mirror Sport columnist Stuart Byrne has the final word every Friday
Somone asked me if I thought history would be kind to Stephen Kenny, whenever he does go as Ireland boss?
It’s the oddest thing and I can’t get my head around it. Can they not deal with a few bob or deal with the pressure? We played some brilliant football against Ukraine in Poland but then it just stopped. Individually and collectively, we haven’t emulated that again.We were Jekyll and Hyde against Holland as we had something about us in the first-half but after the break, we were passive and going through the motions.
But in a season of chances and missed opportunities, this is Derry’s last lifeline to the title and they have to grasp it. Four teams were in the hunt for the league a matter of weeks ago, but Rovers picked off Bohs and Dundalk in quick succession. When he was playing for Ireland, Damien Duff famously described the old Lansdowne Road as ‘a kip, but our kip’.
If that ground had a voice, it would be laughing at you and saying ‘Look at you, up from Dublin, who the f**k do you think you are’.
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