NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

I can't believe Northern Ireland lost against Iceland tonight!

The consensus in the Longfellow was that we would go on and win after Healy's equalising penalty. Sadly it was not to be, and I had to watch the second half of those English prima donnas strutting past Russia with a particularly long face.

What made things even more galling was that we completely bossed the game in terms of possession and chances. Performances in the past have been a matter of shutting up shop and playing for a point - we really went for it here and I'm encouraged by that. The team played with passion and a lot of skill!!

I fear Worthington will get a lot of undeserved stick for this. Our away record under Sanchez was pretty poor too!! And Sanchez was tactically naive in the home defeat against Iceland. A poor start and poor finish were our undoing tonight. How much of that can you attribute to the manager. I will concede that taking off Davis was a strange decision though.

We'll pretty much drift off the agenda of the national press now too but stuff 'em - we're better as underdogs. I wouldn't be surprised if we still came pretty close to qualification come November.

Now what about the Scots!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Great result against France.