Ireland 14 England 13, Saturday 28th February 2009

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Stephen Ferris, IrishRugbyMonster!
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Tense, nervous, anxious, and that was just me before the kick off so goodness knows how the players were feeling.

This was a game were the result was always going to be more important than the performance and France’s victory against Wales the previous night had raised the pre-match tension a notch higher. How international players deal with these types of matches marks them out for greatness and for Ireland the difference in ability to handle the pressure between O’Gara and the rest of the squad couldn’t have been more pronounced. Fortunately for Ireland, O’Driscoll managed to steady the ship sufficiently to eek out a one point win through the sheer force of his will. If only we had someone capable of doing the same at Ulster we could be sitting twelve points further up the Magners League.

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