There were many beautiful moments at the end of last night's game in Lille. Not the least of these was the loving embrace between Martin O'Neill and Roy Keane.
Balls.ie's Cavan bureau chief Mark Farrelly married to the only suitable tune.
O'Neill was naturally asked what he and Roy said to each other as they held each other tightly.
As usual, O'Neill opted for levity. We don't cast any aspersions on O'Neill's account of things here. But we do believe that if these words were uttered, it was done so in a loving and fraternal way.
If anyone was inclined to doubt that O'Neill is, at least in some aspects (thankfully not quite in football management), a creature from another era then his go to analogy for a handsome men has put those doubts to bed.
I told him to shave his beard off, it was rough on my chin. Then I told him I don't want him to hug me ever again. He said you are an ugly sod which I agreed with totally and I said he wasn't Paul Newman either.
