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Davis's Northern Ireland frustrate Ronaldo's Portugal (From Daily Echo)
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Davis's Northern Ireland frustrate Ronaldo's Portugal
11:04pm Tuesday 16th October 2012 in Sport
STEVE DAVIS
SAINTS midfielder Steven Davis came agonisingly close to captaining Northern Ireland to a famous World Cup win in Portugal last night.
But the Irish still managed to ruin Cristiano Ronaldo’s 100th international appearance, securing a magnificent 1-1 draw in Porto.
For most of the night they threatened to leave with all three points.
The visitors took a shock 30th-minute lead through Niall McGinn and held it until the 79th minute, when Helder Postiga finally broke Irish hearts following Nani’s pass.
Davis nearly netted a spectacular own goal as the Portugese dominated the second half, slicing an attempted clearance just over Roy Carroll’s crossbar.
But for the most part he was excellent, leading his side's heroic resistance after McGinn’s excellent finish from a sublime Kyle Lafferty pass had stunned the Portugese.
Portugal’s dominance was eventually rewarded with Postiga’s equaliser, but the Irish were understandably delighted with a point
Comments(9)
Southampton boy
says...
7:29am Wed 17 Oct 12
saintshorse101 wrote:Don't see how by having more overseas players this will increase our sell as you can only get saints shrits from saints!!! a missed opertunity if you ask me you should be able to buy a shrit from all good stores!!!
well done davis and all saints in action tonight, the more internationals we have in our squad the better. having players from zambia, japan and uruguay can only increase our foreign fan base. the more shirts sold abroad can only be good for the clubs finances.
i wont make cheap jibes at our defenders who played today, as some have. they, as with all of our team, require our full support whilst we are not getting the results we need.
COYR`s
3pts against big face sams long ball wonders, and the moaners (you know who you are!)will have to shut up for a while.
With are diffencive record I was a little bit but back to see are deffinders being picked??
Could not understand that still may be thats why I am not a manager come on Saints win for this weekend would be good COYR's
SaintAsh1964
says...
8:12am Wed 17 Oct 12
Southampton boy wrote:Southampton boy you're using a computer, fans in other countries use computers, they buy on-line, more foreign players equals more foreign exposure, more shirt sales, more money for the club, non brainer really but after trying to read the rest of your post I understand now.
saintshorse101 wrote:Don't see how by having more overseas players this will increase our sell as you can only get saints shrits from saints!!! a missed opertunity if you ask me you should be able to buy a shrit from all good stores!!!
well done davis and all saints in action tonight, the more internationals we have in our squad the better. having players from zambia, japan and uruguay can only increase our foreign fan base. the more shirts sold abroad can only be good for the clubs finances.
i wont make cheap jibes at our defenders who played today, as some have. they, as with all of our team, require our full support whilst we are not getting the results we need.
COYR`s
3pts against big face sams long ball wonders, and the moaners (you know who you are!)will have to shut up for a while.
With are diffencive record I was a little bit but back to see are deffinders being picked??
Could not understand that still may be thats why I am not a manager come on Saints win for this weekend would be good COYR's
The Inbetweener
says...
10:07am Wed 17 Oct 12
I appreciate Man utd had Kagawa playing but most of the fans there were supporting Saints.
St Retford
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1:15pm Wed 17 Oct 12
CB FRY LIVES
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3:43pm Wed 17 Oct 12
SaintMax
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7:16pm Wed 17 Oct 12
holburyhalo
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9:07pm Wed 17 Oct 12
oregonsaint
says...
1:02am Thu 18 Oct 12
saintshorse101 wrote:Nice comment. Nuff said.
well done davis and all saints in action tonight, the more internationals we have in our squad the better. having players from zambia, japan and uruguay can only increase our foreign fan base. the more shirts sold abroad can only be good for the clubs finances.
i wont make cheap jibes at our defenders who played today, as some have. they, as with all of our team, require our full support whilst we are not getting the results we need.
COYR`s
3pts against big face sams long ball wonders, and the moaners (you know who you are!)will have to shut up for a while.

saintshorse101 says...
12:06am Wed 17 Oct 12
i wont make cheap jibes at our defenders who played today, as some have. they, as with all of our team, require our full support whilst we are not getting the results we need.
COYR`s
3pts against big face sams long ball wonders, and the moaners (you know who you are!)will have to shut up for a while.