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Lawrie aims to have last laugh

14 April 2012

Lawrie Sanchez has taunted England with the joke that they will be playing the reigning home nations champions on Saturday.

Billy Bingham was in charge and Celtic boss Martin O'Neill the captain when Northern Ireland won the now-extinct tournament in 1984.

Sanchez said: "England will have something to prove I would think! We are bringing the trophy over just to show who has got it. England are the big brother just across the water and we have to give our people something happy to go home with."

Sanchez is determined to transform the province. He said: "There probably has not been a nation that has fallen so much. In 1958 we got to the World Cup quarter-finals and last December we were 124th in the world. We will never get back to eighth in the world but we can get well into the top 100."

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