Thoughts on 'Saipan'. The TLDR is football nerds should go and see it

I enjoyed it very much. It’s well worth seeking out.
the period detail is great
the archive footage is fun
I should say that, as a football nerd of a certain age, and because I’ve got Irish connections, then I’m very much in the target audience
the very brief clip of Keane’s tackle on Haaland’s dad is shocking
it does seem a bit unfair on McCarthy, in that he probably didn’t select Saipan as a location, and it also probably wasn’t his fault that they didn’t have any footballs
also…given they did get to the round of 16 without their best player, McCarthy can’t have been a bad manager.
I would’ve thought they should have brought the film out just before the World Cup
a bloke in the Guardian says that there wasn’t really any element of “you’re not even Irish” (although I do remember it being reported at the time), and the journalist didn’t say the article would be held back until after the tournament
Steve Coogan spoke to McCarthy about playing him BBC
the thing that must haunt Roy Keane is that Ireland got knocked out on penalties in the last 16. Had he been there they might have got through to the quarters, and just possibly he could’ve gone on to lift the trophy. If Greece and Denmark could both win the Euros, it’s not impossible
on the other hand, maybe they were a better squad without him
if you’ve got this far but don’t really know what I’m rabbiting on about there is a Wikipedia page about the Saipan incident