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20 years ago, Ireland played in the 2002 World Cup in Japan and South Korea

Liverpool ended a painfully-long five year wait for a victory over Everton on this day in 1999 in one of the most dramatic Merseyside derbies of the Premier League era with local lads Robbie Fowler and Steven Gerrard making headlines but for very different reasons

Ronnie Rosenthal became English football's most expensive overseas player when Liverpool paid Standard Liege £1.1m in the summer of 1990 following a whirlwind loan spell which breathed new life into the Reds' title challenge and the popular Israeli enjoyed a brief but eventful spell at Anfield

Blood's tenure as FAI president included the ill-fated appointment of Steve Staunton as national team manager in 2006 as well as that of Giovanni Trapattoni two years later.