Whakarāpopototia te tuhinga:  Me kaha ake a Michael O'Neill i tana rangatira o mua a Mixu Paatelainen ki te pupuri i te tono a Ireland ki te Raki kia eke ki tetahi whakataetae nui mo te wa tuatahi i roto i nga tau 30. Ko Paatelainen te kaiwhakahaere o Finland nana i hoatu te Irish 45-tau-tau ki a ia i tana waahi tuatahi ki te whakangungu i Cowdenbeath. I whakaatu a O'Neill ko nga hoa tawhito e rua kaore i pai ki te whakataurite i nga tuhinga kia kore ai e whakaatu atu i etahi atu korero mo a raatau rautaki. "Kei te rite mātou ki ngā kaitākaro, ki taku whakaaro", i kī ia. Ka tūtaki a Michael O'Neill, te kaiwhakahaere o Ireland ki te Raki, ki tana kaiako tawhito i te Rātapu, te kaiwhakahaere o Finland. Ko Mixu Paatelainen te kaiwhakahaere o Finland, ā, nāna a O'Neill i whai wāhi tuatahi ki te whakahaere. Ko te kapa o Ireland ki te Raki ka tu ki a Finland: Carroll; C McLaughlin, McAuley, Evans, Baird; Ward, Davis, Norwood, Brunt, McGinn; Lafferty. <unk>Ki te mea kua tākaro koe i tētahi karapu ki tētahi, ā, kua mahi poto koe ki a ia hei kaiako, he mārama he hononga kei reira. <unk>E mārama ana he iti ake te hiahia ki te matapaki i te hoariri nā te mea kāore ia e hiahia ki te kōrero mai ki a au i ngā mea kāore pea au i te mōhio, ā, ko ia anō hoki. Engari e mōhio ana tātou ki a tātou anō, me te āhua o te tākaro o tō tātou kapa. <unk> Ahakoa he aha te mea ka tupu, e kore e pā ki te āhua o to mātau tata.<unk> Kaore ano a Northern Ireland kia eke ki nga whiringa toa o te European Championship, a, i puta whakamutunga i tetahi whakataetae nui i te 1986 World Cup i Mexico. I tāpiri atu a O<unk>Neill: <unk> Ki taku whakaaro he mahi nui ta Mixu. He rite tonu tana mahi ki taku, he torutoru noa iho nga kaitākaro hei whiriwhiri mai, ā, he pai te whakatangi a ia. Kāore he feaa he kapa pai a Finland engari he whakawhirinaki ki ngā kaitākaro e rima, e ono rānei. I noho tahi a O'Neill (i te whakaahua) me Paatelainen i Cowdenbeath i Scotland.
Ka tūtaki a Ireland ki te Raki ki a Finland i te pō o te Rātapu i tētahi whakataetae Pākehā. Ka tūtaki a Michael O'Neill ki tana rangatira o mua a Mixi Paatelainen. I hoatu e Paatelainen ki a O'Neill tana waahi tuatahi ki te whakangungu i Cowdenbeath. E whakaae ana a O'Neill kāore te tokorua i pai ki te whakataurite i ngā pūkete.