Quote Originally Posted by MacAdder View Post
My memory isn't great bit I seem to recall that we went for a point against Montenegro away who had had a poor run of games and were about to ditch their manager.
Hughes should have gone for the jugular, then we would not have needed anything against Italy away, just had to win our home games.
We drew one of them and still could have qualified as Italy stuttered.

We got to the play off against Russia and played Earnie, who was scoring for fun at the time, on the wing

Safe to say Hughes did not cover himself in glory.
It was exasperating when Earnie came on on the wing after the hour. The energy levels between the two teams between the 4 days raised eyebrows at the time, particularly as one of the Russian team failed a drug test later. Regardless of the rights and wrongs to be in Toulouse when we put them to the sword was one of life's great pleasures.