Northern Ireland 0 - 3 Iceland

This game should have been so different. From the uphoria of beating Finland 2-1 last month they suffer the ignomy of being resoundly loosing 0:3 in their first Euro 2008 qualifying game at home to the relative minnows that are Iceland (ok, maybe not minnows - maybe a cod?)

The visitors scored on 13 minutes from a Gunnar Heidar strike then Hreidarsson made it two on twenty minutes. The on-form Eidur Gudjohnsen scored on the 36th minute with his usual flair to take the game to its concluding score of 3:0.

The game could have been so different if David Healy's goal on the hour stood. Unfortuneately it was dissallowed for pushing by Stuart Elliott.

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