The best fans of the world are descending upon snowy Stockholm, and Sportbladet, enterprising journalists that they are, sent a reporter to the Dubliner pub near Hotorget last night, where they found 60 Ireland fans. Their report managed to capture the defeatist mood of Irish supporters, and he got one golden quote from a certain Phil Brennan:
Via dodgy Google translate:
Phil Brennan was in the stands against Spain and against Sweden he makes his fiftieth away game as Irish national team supporter.
- We are known to have much. We will silence all the Swedes, he says.
But your manager Trapattoni wants the open roof because he is afraid of the Swedish fans?
- Our manager is a clown, haha.
But prematch optimism are blown away when the match comes up.
- We will lose to most, but the result is another thing, this might be the end of the journey for this team management says Naill Shaneghy.
