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01st Apr 2015

PIC: Polish midfielder tweets graphic after-effects of that James McClean reducer

Bag of ice, no worries

Patrick McCarry

A slight dinger on the knee-cap there.

Irish fans will not forget this whomper of a ball-winning tackle from James McClean on Sunday night:

‘Ah yes,’ we are sure man of you will say, ‘and what of it?’ Well, Arkadiusz Milik, the Polish midfielder who was clattered by the Wigan man, has tweeted the after-effects of that tackle.

Looks like quite the raspberry.

It was a challenge that was not deemed a foul at the time and that roused the home crowd during the 1-1 draw.

Following the game, Ireland boss Martin O’Neill said, ‘Getting James onto the field was important for us. He’s played very well in my time here and I thought that it was obviously important to get him on but his time on the field was nothing short of excellent.

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