Hate to gloat about the "cult of personality"/superstar thing in the Roy Keane context, but could it be that France were counting too much on Zidane (who is undoubtedly a wizard) and collapsed when he wasn't available? They normally would have expected to have qualified before today. Well done Denmark.

I repeat that I'm no expert, but maybe the team spirit and modesty of the rest of the Irish has stood to them. We'll know in a couple of hours!