FOOTBALL: WORLD CUP: BRAZIL? THIS MADE US ILL; NORTHERN IRELAND ENGLAND Sven's boys a laughing stock as they suffer night of shock.(Sport) From: The Mirror (London, England) | Date: September 8, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 MGN LTD. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: Martin Lipton

AS GOOD as Brazil? You've got to be joking, Sven. And it's not funny any more. In fact, it's downright embarrassing.

As David Healy put Windsor Park into ecstasy and sent England spinning to a defeat that will ring round the world, there could be no excuses, no mealy-mouthed pretence that it was "one of those days".

This was England losing to the joint 116th team in the world, losing in Belfast for the first time in 78 years, ...