Today's Fifa rankings tell a sorry tale about the state of Irish soccer, the hand of the painful Henry has already led to thousands of couples staying together across Ireland as husbands everywhere cancelled their plans to head to South Africa, but now this.
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Giovanni can now put the Juventus job offer behind him and work on moving Ireland up the Fifa rankings after it was announced the boys in green had dropped to 44th place, below the esteemed footballing nations of Gabon, Honduras, Costa Rica and Darren Fletcher's Scotland.
Time was when we were mixing it with the likes of Holland and Norway, now they are just fading memories.
