Goodbye, Ireland!

“We did not deserve another result,” the Irishman Kit Andrews admitted immediately after the game. He said this, not yet moving away from the defeat, being clearly upset, experiencing such a terrible defeat. Nevertheless, he spoke more or less calmly, did not pursue the words, did not rose to the correspondent, perfectly realizing that the post -match interview is an element of the profession. Both the journalist and his football player.

We are talking about the simplest thing - about the culture of the profession, about decency, about the high attitude to their work. And the point here is not only in the unbending Irish character, immortalized in the myths of the people's Irish hero Kukhulin, about Mustanger Morisa Gerald, the hero of the novel Main Read “Horseman without a head” or the unique inhabitants of Dublin from Ulysses James Joyce. The Irish showed these features in the final of the Spanish catastrophe when their fans sang. It was something amazing! The team hopelessly lost-both in the game and in the account, the first team in Euro 2012 flies out of the tournament-and its fans show themselves as fans with a capital letter, in the highest sense of the word: ten minutes to the whole stadium and singing their own ... Well, say, choreles, here some kind of high word is asked! “Our proud“ Varangian ”does not give up to the enemy, I think this comparison will be close to many Russians ... to many, but not all Russian fans. And the Irish players do not extinguish: they run briskly, even try to attack ... Well, say, in a chopped, but minted-classical phrase:“ Everything is lost except honor. ”

It is hard to imagine that Irish fans after the game went to smash local cafes, burn cars and beat the Spanish fans. Such matches temper hearts - both players and their fans who are not spoiled by victories. Here, in full growth, a powerful national character was manifested, involved in many years of tradition and a feeling of deep self -esteem!

Really, you will not envy Italians who have to play the last match of the group tournament with the Irish. I think this meeting can turn out to be very bright and dramatic-something, and the “slave” the Ireland team will try to “slam the door”. Moreover, she and the coach - the Italian Giovanni Turpattoni!