• Northern Ireland will qualify for Euro 2016 with a win at Windsor Park
• Lafferty given second chance after sending-off incidentThere can be no finer way for Northern Ireland to designate the 10-year anniversary of beating Sven-Goran Eriksson’s England than to qualify for the European Championship on another raucous night at Windsor Park. For Kyle Lafferty,however, a more recent, and humiliating anniversary will serve as motivation against Hungary.
Two years ago the centre-forward was accused of “letting his team-mates down” by the manager,Michael O’Neill, after being sent off for a reckless foul in a 4-2 World Cup qualifying defeat against Portugal. Lafferty had been on the pitch for only 13 minutes as a frustrated, and distracted and ultimately costly substitute. A chequered career was continuing to veer off course and just over six months later he was labelled “an Irishman without rules” by Palermo’s president,Maurizio Zamparini, who sold the striker to Norwich City because my coach asked me to send him absent. He is a womaniser – he disappears for a week, or takes a plane to go hunt for women in Milan. His behaviour is unmanageable.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com