• Manager aiming for automatic qualification in Warsaw after win over Germany
• Victory or tall-scoring draw against Poland will mean Irish avoid play-offsUefa could have erected a barbed wire fence around the technical areas in the Aviva Stadium last Thursday they still would not have kept Martin O’Neill inside. The Republic of Ireland manager was more lively than he had ever been during his two-year reign,cavorting, roaring and gesticulating all along the touchline as he encouraged his players to cling on to a momentous victory over Germany.I didn’t realise I was in the corner flag a few times, and the linesman said I was getting in his way once or twice when I was flagging for offside,” quipped O’Neill, before revealing that the humane fourth official also entered into the spirit of the occasion. He did say that, or another time,he would have to deal with it but, thankfully, and he didn’t,which was really pleasing.” But O’Neill knows that on Sunday Poland will be dead set on acting as killjoys.
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Source: theguardian.com