Nigel Worthington has sensationally revealed that N Ireland will go to Solna on Wednesday and take three points off the Swedes by playing rugby.
Worthers, inspired by England's heroics against France on Saturday, believes that if we play rugby we could catch the Swedes by surprise and seriously improve our goal difference.
"The mood in the camp is good," said an excited Worthers holding a Gilbert ball.
"We met up on Saturday and had a productive training session near our hotel. It went very well and then we sat down as a team to watch England defeat France in the Rugby World Cup.
"What an exciting match that was and we can surely draw inspiration from England's performance.
"They were dead and buried at the start of the tournament but have bounced back dramatically.
"We then flew out yesterday morning to Stockholm, held a training session in the afternoon and if the boys are able to reproduce their form which they have shown in training on Wednesday night, then we'll give an excellent account of ourselves."
It has not been revealed how Worthers plans to shape his new team but knows we need to get an early try to spur on the team. We should be strong in the flanks but Healy will be physically too small as a prop forward. It is also unknown at this stage how Norn Iron will get round the actual rules of the game, as handling the ball will see us getting penalised, but it is expected Maik Taylor will be unlikely to have to forfeit his place in the squad.
This news will come as a great shock to a majority of the traveling support who will now after to alter their behaviour accordingly. It is expected that drinking sessions in the Swedish capital will now be accompanied by the regular exposure of genitalia and general homosexual behaviour. Singing songs will now be subject to drinking games, which are well known throughout the rugby supporting fraternity. It is not unusual for fellow supporters to drink each other's vomit and urine just for fun.
"We may have to expose our genitalia and display general homosexual behaviour towards our fellow supporters," said a Norn Iron supporter's representative.
"Standing on tables with our trousers around our ankles is not something we are used to but hopefully we will get the hang of it and get down to some serious childish drinking games," he said.
Meanwhile, it seems that FIFA will finally make a decision today as to whether players born in NI can play for the RoI. Wells and Raymond Kennedy are in Zurich this afternoon to meet with Blatter's henchmen.
Over the years NI have lost a number of their players to the RoI, most recently Darron Gibson. If FIFA rule that a player, parent or grandparent must be born in the territory of the association, then Gibbo's days playing for the Beggars are over.
Rumours that both Wells and Kennedy will be submitting an application for Norn Iron to play rugby against Denmark and Spain have been vehemently denied by the IFA. |
