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The Republic of Ireland keep their hopes of qualifying for the World Cup alive.

A 2-0 win over Portugal has freed from desire ever sounded so good. Troy Parrot with two goals. The Irish stuck the ball over the top of the Portuguese back four and they really didn't like it. And if you ever wanted an advert for VAR, that crowd as the ref went to the monitor to upgrade Ronaldo's yellow to a red for a daft elbow. You'd love to see it. Now, they have to win in Hungary, not easy but possible. Meanwhile,

most of our panel are at a very wet Wembley for England to Serbia nil. Strap yourselves in for

another What Did We Learn session. Football Finance expert, Kira McGuire, joins us to talk

crypto World Cup dynamic pricing and other interesting accountancy. We'll answer your questions,

and that's today's Guardian Football Weekly. On the panel today, Sam Daly, welcome. Hi, Max. How are you? Yeah, good, thank you. Hello, Jacob Steinberg. Hello. And welcome Dan Bardell. Hello, Max Rushton. Johnny says, please spend the first 20 minutes on Ireland. There's nothing new or interesting to say about England. They're quite good move on. Alan, is Troy Parrot the greatest of all ornithological based sportsmen? Larry Bird feels disappointed

with that, or maybe a Gavin Peacock. Anyway, let's start with Ireland's 2-0 win over Portugal. Toxie said,

how about a voice note from Barry? He's got to be pleased. Yeah, astonishing that Barry took the day off. The first time he could probably ever talk about the Republic of Ireland being

good, but we couldn't do this bit without a voice note from everyone's favourite Irishman.

So here is David O'Doherty. It's just been so hard to get excited about it for so long.

It seems like just 10 years of drawing with Moldova.

And before this campaign, our Icelandic dentist manager told us,

we're actually all right.

And I don't know if we really believed it.

But, like, Quivian Geller is good goalie.

Evan Ferguson plays for freaking Syria, you know?

And then we lost to our media.

And so, I mean, there was, towards the end of this match,

this is how long it's been, there was, there was a need to sing,

and the song that people started singing was from the 1990 World Cup.

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