Carling Nations Cup, Aviva Stadium, Dublin, 25/5/11.

You could be forgiven for not knowing this match had taken place. I didn’t even see the goals on the news – mainly because I missed the news last evening. The good lady and I went out for a meal last night; at the Annapurna, a very nice Nepalese restaurant. But I digress.

By all accounts the crowd was woeful; not surprisng for a game between Wales and Scotland held in Dublin when the Irish Republic is in the middle of a hellish economic time the night after the Republic themselves had had a game.

It sets up Sunday’s (it is Sunday, isn’t it?) game nicely but the Wales – Northern Ireland game tonight won’t be much of an attraction I’d have thought.