Your European Soccer Crib Sheet, 6/7 Edition
The World Cup returns, and so does Real Madrid.
It’s the offseason; anything is fair game, so let’s briefly talk about Ireland’s 2002 World Cup.
There’s an entire multi-section Wikipedia entry for the “Saipan incident”, a “public quarrel” between Roy Keane and manager Mick McCarthy that led to Keane, the greatest Irish player of all time, being dismissed from the team right before the tournament began…