It was not a team sheet Martin O’Neill was looking at - more like a script for that Father Ted episode where Craggy Island’s priests met Rugged Island in an Over-75s grudge match.
It was November 14, 2017. The World Cup play-off Ireland v Denmark in Dublin.
That was the night the Lions were fed to the Christian - Denmark’s Eriksen scoring a hat-trick to end Irish hopes of going to Russia.