It has to be tough to be on the Irish national team right now. Not only did they get completely jobbed by France with Henry's blatant double handball, costing them a trip to the World Cup, but they had to gather this week for a friendly against Brazil.
Sweet, let's leave our club teams and gather in London to get pummeled by one of the best teams in the world, oh and it doesn't count for anything on the off-chance we play well.
I will give Ireland credit as they carried the play for the first 20 minutes (Kevin Doyle's beautiful header was batted away by Julio Cesar) in today's exhibition against Brazil at Arsenal's Emirates stadium but then the Samba Kings woke up and said, "hey, we're Brazil."
Then things started to go as planned as Robinho's cross in the 44th minute was put in for an own goal by Keith Andrews.
The former City striker then went for the jugular in the 76th minute as Kaka started the play and then Robinho worked a perfect 1-2 with Shimer's boy Grafite. I believe in my text message to Shimer directly after the goal I termed it "your standard Brazilian highlight reel goal."
Brazil will always be Brazil. As the announcer pointed out, Danny Alves of Barcelona is the most expensive defender in football and he's not even a starter on Brazil's national team.
Group G of North Korea, Portugal and Ivory Coast hopefully were paying attention today or maybe not since it'll give them nightmares for the next 100 days.
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